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The admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries: reaching behind the sources
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 586-611, November 2021., 2021 Religious institutions in early medieval Europe were both recipients of former slaves and instigators of manumissions. By drawing on recent work concerning the admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries, the present paper identifies dominant strands in the historiography from Marc Bloch to the present, which are then re‐evaluated in light
Roy Flechner, Janel Fontaine
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Face‐Work: Making Hair Matter in Sixteenth‐Century Central Europe
Gender &History, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 314-345, July 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Bringing gender history, the history of the body and art history into a conversation with material culture studies, this article argues that the sudden fashionability of beards in Renaissance Europe has been intricately linked with a culture of material and visual experimentation.
Stefan Hanß
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German Life and Letters, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 339-370, July 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Alexander von Humboldt was regarded as an anti‐fascist symbol among German‐speaking exiles who, fleeing persecution from the Nazi regime, found refuge in Mexico. Humboldt's legacy was read as being an endorsement of the country's struggle for political and cultural emancipation, while his famously anti‐racist stance proved helpful in framing ...
Andrea Acle‐Kreysing
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, 2022 Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 142-162, February 2022.
Freya Sierhuis
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Die Sammlung Hermann Zapf in der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
Bibliotheksdienst, 1992 Georg Ruppelt
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Contextualizing the Cappella Cesi: Sangallo, Façades, and Renaissance Collaboration
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 489-506, June 2026.Abstract This article reframes Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's oft‐overlooked cappella Cesi nave façade in Santa Maria della Pace not as an isolated design deviation but as part of a broader architectural and artistic conversation among major players in early sixteenth‐century Rome.
Alexis Culotta
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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
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Sidereal Messages: Print Letters in Restoration Astronomical Writing
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 59-76, March 2024.Abstract Astronomy, a paradigmatic observational discipline of early modern ‘science’, relied on epistolary communication for coordinating practitioners across the world, publishing discoveries and theories, and seeking their confirmation from other virtuosi.
Florian Klaeger
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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 57-81, February 2024.The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
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Erneuerung der Digitalen Editionen an der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
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