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Why couple infertility is historically a female-driven problem? [PDF]
AndrologyAbstract Background The history of studies in the field of infertility represents a chapter of great interest in gender issues. Objectives This paper aims to delve deep into the historical roots of the aspect of gender inequality related to couple infertility, with a journey back in time, from classical antiquity to the contemporary age, reporting ...
Vignozzi L, Cipriani S, Lippi D.
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Archaeological Prospection, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 411-427, October/December 2023., 2023 Abstract An extensive magnetic survey has been carried out on a large part of the Roman and late antique city of Pollentia (Alcúdia, Mallorca, Spain), combined with ground penetrating radar (GPR) and electric resistivity imaging (ER Imaging) to obtain data for a better understanding of the ancient city.
Miguel A. Cau‐Ontiveros +6 more
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Revisiting Gendered Representations of Humility: An Examination of Sources from Late Medieval Italy
Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 881-897, October 2023., 2023 Abstract During the Middle Ages, gender‐neutral representations of humility as a quality linked to spiritual love and voluntary service competed with representations according to gendered patterns, such as those related to the naked and dressed body in terms of its biological and social functions and its appearance.
Silvia Negri
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Simon of Tournai's Stroke: The Image of an Irate Unbeliever
Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 243-273, June 2023., 2023 For centuries after his death in the late twelfth century, Simon of Tournai, a master of theology in the Parisian schools, had a reputation for being an unbeliever punished by God with a stroke. This article gathers the eight known medieval sources for his stroke and examines them from a mythogenetic perspective to demonstrate how different authors ...
Keagan Brewer
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Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 23-50, February 2023., 2023 Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
Javier Martínez Jiménez +1 more
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 536-557, November 2022., 2022 Around 1000, a new type of law‐book emerged in Catalonia and northern Italy that attests to new ways of handling legal material. Incorporating in full the Visigothic and Lombard law codes, respectively, these law‐books provided a base for studying and interpreting old law through comments, glosses etc., addressing new users such as lay judges.
Stefan Esders
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Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-21, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper reconsiders a curious aspect of the Vandal kingdom of North Africa (439–533 ce): the total absence of women called Vandals in extant sources. It argues that these missing Vandal women are the women of the Hasding royal dynasty. The non‐application of the ethnic terminology to the consorts, sisters and daughters of kings and princes ...
Robin Whelan
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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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De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 137-160, May 2021., 2021 This article explores the use of civic discourse in Gildas’ De Excidio Britonum. It argues that such language and imagery functioned within a larger dialectical argument that exhorted readers to choose virtue over vice. Gildas assigned the Britons collective moral agency by styling them citizens (cives) of a shared homeland (patria) defined by cities ...
Robert Flierman, Megan Welton
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Pope Leo of Bourges, clerical immunity and the early medieval secular
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 86-108, February 2021., 2021 This article investigates the early medieval secular through the lens of clerical immunity – that is, the legal exemption of clerics from courts labelled as secular. It focusses on a short text, eventually attributed to Pope Leo, which was written in fifth‐century Gaul to define this immunity.
Charles West
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