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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us
Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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The aim of this article is to briefly retrace the history of criminal identification tech- niques in Italy in order to shed new light on the legacy of criminal anthropology in policing and criminal justice in the delicate transition from liberal ...
Emilia Musumeci
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Advance Contracts for the Sale of Wool in Medieval England; An Undeveloped and Inefficient Market? [PDF]
While it is commonly believed that derivative instruments are a recent invention, we document the existence of forward contracts for the sale of wool in medieval England around 700 years ago.
Paul Dryburgh, Chris Brooks, Adrian Bell
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Coins, monetisation and re-use in medieval England and Wales: new interpretations made possible by the Portable Antiquities Scheme. [PDF]
Coins are a vital source of evidence for many aspects of the medieval past. In this thesis a large volume of provenanced coin records collected and published online by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) are analysed to look for patterns of ...
KELLEHER, RICHARD,MARK
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Muslim History : Reflections on Periodisation and Categorisation
This article seeks to review the common assumption of a clear, largely endogenous, continuous and singular medieval period in Muslim history. The assumption implicates a romantic vision of history as one of continuity, and the possibility of writing the ...
Al-Azmeh, Aziz,
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Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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Valuing Medieval Annuities: Were Corrodies Underpriced? [PDF]
Medieval bishops condemned and restricted the sale of corrodies (a type of annuity), partly on the grounds of their perceived unprofitability. The available data on the profitability of corrodies is limited and little analysed, and the episcopal ...
Adrian Bell, Charles Sutcliffe
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Fajalauza-HD: Post-medieval pottery in the digital humanities
Artículo de divulgación sobre proyecto de investigación: Fajalauza HDThe Fajalauza-Hd project deals with the research, conservation, and dissemination of the ceramic production of Fajalauza de Granada (Spain) from the post-medieval period with the use of
Lara Piñera, Francisco +7 more
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Deviant Women in Courtly and Popular Medieval Castilian Poetry [PDF]
This thesis is a study of the figure of the deviant woman in the poetry of medieval Spain; it outlines and establishes paradigms of acceptable and unacceptable attitudes and behaviours.
HOOGESTEGER, NAOMI,MAY,JENSEN +1 more
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A History of ‘Religious History’
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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