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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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La voz autorial en la Historia romana de Apiano
, 2018 The author analyses Appian’s first person interventions in the Roman History in order to obtain a precise image of his Authorial voice. The analysis of these interventions allows concluding that Appian hardly ever used the first person in ...
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Horrillo
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La II Edad del Hierro y la época romana en La Rioja : Dos décadas de investigación (1974-1994)
Brocar. Cuadernos de investigación histórica, 1994 La finalidad del presente artículo es estudiar veinte años de investigación histórica en torno a la Rioja, ciñéndonos a dos periodos: la II Edad del Hierro y la época romana.
María Josefa Castillo Pascual
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Ágora, 2022 As esferas social e econômica na sociedade romana, assim como na contemporaneidade, estavam relacionadas de maneira intrínseca. Tal relação pode ser observada no caso apresentado por Plínio no oitavo capítulo do livro 18 da sua História Natural. Nele, o
Fabiana Martins Nascimento +1 more
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As Relações entre Geografia e Política no contexto da Antiguidade Greco-Romana
Geografia (Londrina), 2023 Durante a antiguidade greco-romana, a geografia foi uma área de conhecimento de grande utilidade para os assuntos da política. Por um lado, ela supria a classe política com o tipo de informação útil para exercício de atividades como o comércio, a guerra
Lucas Augusto Borlina
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