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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville and the Moral Geography of the Medieval World [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Mandeville’s Travels was, for more than two centuries after its appearance in  c.1356, of enormous influence and popularity in many fields of European culture. This paper discusses first its unprecedented generic eclecticism and its casting into the form
Moseley, Charles
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The DM Environment: From Annotation to Dissemination [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
DM (formerly Digital Mappaemundi) is an online environment that allows users to easily assemble collections of images and texts for study, produce their own rich analysis data, and publish online resources for individual, group or public use. DM is ready
Dorothy Porter   +5 more
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Establishing and analysing the sphere of influence of Saints Oswald and Wulfstan of Worcester, c. 950 to c. 1400 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Pilgrimage to shrine centres in medieval England was a significant event for the community to undertake, as well as an important source of income for the shrine itself.
Styler, Ian David
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When COVID-19 came to town: Measuring the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on footfall on six high streets in England. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Plan B Urban Anal City Sci, 2022
Enoch M   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

El mapamundi de Herefod [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The best preserved and most widely studied big mediaeval map of religious origin is this kind of altarpiece in Hereford cathedral, placed there at the end of the 13th century and found near the grave of Saint Tomas de Cantilupe, a distinguished point of ...
Paul D. A. Harvey
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Spas, steamships and sardines : Edwardian package tourism and the marketing of Galician regionalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
From 1901 until the First World War, alongside its principal business of shipping rubber and leather to and from the USA and Northern Brazil, Liverpool's Booth Steamship Company (familiarly known as the ‘Booth Line’) ran a portfolio of highly successful ...
Hooper, Kirsty
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Four Handel oratorio libretti published by John Gregory of Leicester, 1759 - 1774 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
George Frederic Handel had links with Leicestershire through the very wealthy writer and patron of music and literature Charles Jennens of Gopsall Hall, who, amongst other things wrote and prepared the texts for Messiah and several other important Handel
Boylan, P.
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Cartographic Imaginings: Mapping Anglo-Scottish Existence in the Late Middle Ages

open access: yes, 2016
The presence of Scotland on the medieval map has remained largely unstudied, yet its historic contested existence within the British Isles makes it an ideal subject of analysis in determining the role early maps play in expressions of the nation.
Andrew W. Klein
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