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Narrating providential history: Bede's account of the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria in his Historia ecclesiastica

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 26-49, February 2025.
This article takes Bede's account of the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria as a case study in the mechanics and function of narrative. It is now recognized that Bede's sources for his Ecclesiastical History were very limited and that in composing it he relied upon his own deductions as a historian and upon his narrative skill to provide ...
Catherine Cubitt
wiley   +1 more source

Le ‘facteur scythe’ dans la ‘dernière grande guerre de l’Antiquité’. Les ‘peuples scythes’ (Avars, Turcs) et leurs foederati dans les ‘guerres persiques’ d’Héraclius

open access: yesNuova Antologia Militare
This study questions the importance of the «Scythian peoples» (Avars, Turks) in the «Last Great War of Antiquity» opposing Romans and Persians in 622-628 under Heraclius and Chosroes II.
Guillaume Sartor
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Economic inequality, culture, and governance quality

open access: yesJournal of Economic Surveys, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 375-402, February 2025.
Abstract We review work that has linked economic inequality and culture to governance quality. We start with contributions that have considered the relationship between inequality and governance from a long‐run perspective. This historical perspective yields a range of insights and helps identify the deep drivers of specific cultural traits that relate
Andreas P. Kyriacou
wiley   +1 more source

KESANTUNAN BERBAHASA SURAT-SURAT NABI MUHAMMAD KEPADA PARA RAJA

open access: yesArabiyat, 2016
This research was intended to look at the speech acts and politeness forms used by Prophet Muhammad. Moreover, it was also aimed to know the secret use of politeness on various speech acts in the lettersto the kings.
Ubaidillah Ubaidillah
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7th Century Byzantine Leadership: Reevaluating Recent Scholarship on Heraclius

open access: yes, 2023
This thesis examines the Roman emperor Heraclius, who rules Byzantine Rome from 610 -641CE. It will look at the military, political, and religious decisions that Heraclius made during his civil war with the usurper Phokas that lasted from 603-610, his ...
Caudill, Jeremiah
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Le rôle des fédérés transcaucasiens dans les guerres persiques d’Héraclius (622-628). 3e partie : Considérations stratégiques

open access: yesHiMA
Le troisième volet de l’étude montre comment les fédérés (foederati) transcaucasiens contribuèrent stratégiquement aux campagnes (expeditiones) impériales de 624-625 et de 627-628 menées par Héraclius contre l’Empire perse. Ils participèrent aux
Guillaume Sartor
doaj   +1 more source

Pierced, looped and framed: the (re)use of gold coins in jewellery in sixth‐ and seventh‐century England

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 337-386, August 2024.
The early medieval coin‐using economy is traditionally conceptualized as a masculine sphere with minimal female involvement. This article examines a corpus of 135 gold and pale gold coins of the later sixth and seventh centuries that underwent modification as coin‐pendants, a form of jewellery that belongs almost exclusively to feminine contexts ...
Katie D. Haworth   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early mediaeval lead glass bangles from Czermno, Poland: Results of elemental and lead isotopes analyses

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 306-325, April 2024.
Abstract This paper presents the results from analysis of thirty 12th to 13th century glass bangles from Czermno, eastern Poland. Study of the primary glass composition was carried out by laser ablation ICP‐MS and electron probe microanalysis. Lead isotope analyses were conducted to determine the origin of the glass's main raw material.
Sylwia Wajda   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deciphering the dodecanummia of Heraclius and Constans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
TThis article offers new explanations of the letters appearing in association with a cross between the numerals Ι and Β on the reverses of the dodecanummia struck at Alexandria in Egypt under Heraclius and Constans II.
Woods, David
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The Policy of Byzantine Administration within the Territory of Armenian Provinces during the late 6th - first third of 7th A.D.: a Military Aspect

open access: yesАнтичная древность и средние века, 2018
The paper considers the question of methods of reinforcement of Byzantine regular army which stood in Armenian provinces of Byzantium in 4th - 7th A.D.
Yevgeniy Mekhamadiev
doaj   +1 more source

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