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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
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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
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
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KESANTUNAN BERBAHASA SURAT-SURAT NABI MUHAMMAD KEPADA PARA RAJA
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
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 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
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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
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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
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Deciphering the dodecanummia of Heraclius and Constans [PDF]
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 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
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