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The Material and Textual Value of Manuscript and Print Binding Waste☆
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In 2019, the Foundation of Christ's Hospital at Lincoln made a bequest of early printed books to the Bodleian Library. The collection is rich in sixteenth‐century tooled bindings, many of which preserve manuscript and printed waste in the form of pastedowns, endleaves and endleaf guards.
Tamara Atkin
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Between theft and treason: latrocinium in Carolingian capitularies
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 367-390, August 2025.Suppressing robbery, latrocinium, was a priority for Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, Charles the Bald, and Louis II at key political moments. Latrones were conceptualized as ordinary thieves, as highway robbers, and as threats to peace and security. In capitularies, latrocinium was implicitly and explicitly associated with infidelity.
James R. Burns
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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The martyrdom of St. Stephan in Medieval and. Early Modern hagiography [PDF]
Религия, церковь, общество, 2013 Despite the rather late development of the cult of the first martyr at the end of the 3rd – 4th centuries, it occupied an unusually important role in Christian rhetoric as an imitator of Christ.
Zinaida Andreevna Lurie
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Attitudes to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postnatal Complications in Medieval English Miracula
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 543-560, July 2025.Abstract This article re‐examines the evidence about childbirth and related topics in the posthumous miracle collections of English saints. It finds forty‐eight such miracles in collections of thirteen English saints, mostly from the century or so after 1170. The article argues that the context in which the stories were composed is vitally important to
Ben Nilson, Ruth Frost
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The man of law’s tale by Geoffrey Chaucer: the process of holiness in the low middle ages
ArReDia, 2015 Geoffrey Chaucer is considered by many scholars of literary space, as the father of English literature and language in which it is written. In his book The Canterbury Tales, the author makes an overview of the downtown English society Middle Ages and ...
Rafael Francisco Neves de Souza +1 more
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BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS IN THE LEGEND OF THE DEATH OF SAINT PAFNUTY OF BOROVSK AND THEIR FUNCTIONS [PDF]
Проблемы исторической поэтики, 2014 The article concerns the realization of famous paradigm Imitatio Christi, comparing the lives and acts of saints with those of Christ in ancient russian hagiography in general and in the Legend describing the death of Pafnutiy of Borovsk in particular.
Mariya Konstantinovna Kuzmina
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Nursing Inquiry, Volume 32, Issue 3, July 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the hospital care provided by the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God in sixteenth‐ and seventeenth‐century Spain, with particular emphasis on its conception of end‐of‐life care. Rooted in a context deeply shaped by Christian spirituality, the Order developed a holistic model grounded in charity, justice, and profound ...
Aarón Muñoz Devesa +1 more
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Child Ordination in South Asian Jainism
Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2025.ABSTRACT The practice of initiating minors (children under the age of 18 [bāla or bāl]), was once common among Śvetāmbara Jain mendicant communities in South Asia. This article summarizes scholarship on Jain child ordination, specifically initiation (dīkṣā) into Śvetāmbara mendicant life.
Liz Wilson
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Byōseki and pathography: Their commonalities and differences
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2025.Abstract The German psychiatrist Paul Julius Möbius began to use the term Pathographie in a new sense: a psychiatric biography of a historical figure that focuses on their pathological aspects. Byōseki, which originated from Möbius's Pathographie, refers to a uniquely Japanese practice that explores the relationship between creativity and ...
Shinnosuke Saito
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