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Education and episcopacy : the universities of Scotland in the fifteenth century
Educational provision in Scotland was revolutionised in the fifteenth century through the foundation of three universities, or studia generale, at St Andrews, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
Woodman, Isla
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SAFAVIDS BEFORE EMPIRE: TWO 15TH-CENTURY ARMENIAN PERSPECTIVES
Armenian sources from the 15th century provide distinctive viewpoints on the history of the Safaviyyih Sufi order before the foundation of the Safavid Empire. The history of T‘ovma of Metsop‘ suggests an earlier intermediate step in the militarization of
Thomas A. Carlson
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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The first sources concerning Pila (Piła) come from consistor’s acts from the mid-15th century. Initially, it belonged to the parish in Ujscie (Ujście). It became independent in the beginning of the 17th century. Until 1920, it was part of the diocese and
Tadeusz Ceynowa
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Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Report on the scientific conference Bibliotheken im Mittelalter und in der Früheren Neuzeit
On December 5-7, 2018 in Erlangen in Germany as a part of the SCRIPTO program a conference entitled Bibliotheken im Mittelalter und in der Früheren Neuzeit took place.
Wiktor Dziemski
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From Kingdom to Emirate: A Political History of Yawuri since the 15th Century
The various political entities that made up the historical and geographical region known as Hausaland have had a long and checkered history of political transformation. Most of those entities evolved as autonomous geo-political units before the 19th Century.
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Noblemen from Zubra. History of Rus’ gentry of Silesian origin in the 15th century
На підставі архівних джерел проаналізовано історію декількох поколінь шляхетської родини вихідців із Бірави в Сілезії, які від 1407 р. з надання короля Владислава II Ягайла були власниками підльвівського села Зубра й виступають в документах як ...
Sperka, J.
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ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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