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And We cast upon his throne a mere body: A Historiographical Reading of Q. 38:34 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This paper focuses on Q. 38:34 from the perspective of early and medieval works of Islamic historiography and collections of tales of the prophets: the early tenth century works of 'Umara b.
Awn Satan's Tragedy   +10 more
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Limits of Understanding in the Study of Lost Martial Arts

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2016
The paper is organised around the notion of embodied technique. The recent attempts to formulate scientific methodologies for the reconstruction of medieval fighting techniques based on a study of premodern fight books raise questions about the ...
Eric Burkart
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Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The article intends to draw attention to some of the most significant and telling appropriations of traditional themes of Biblical paradise in medieval Christian dualism (namely, Paulicianism, Bogomilism and related groups in Eastern Christendom and ...
Stoyanov, Yuri
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The origins of intensive marine fishing in medieval Europe: the English evidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The catastrophic impact of fishing pressure on species such as cod and herring is well documented. However, the antiquity of their intensive exploitation has not been established. Systematic catch statistics are only available for ca.
Barrett, J H, Locker, A M, Roberts, C M
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The fortunes of Arthur: Malory to Milton [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This chapter follows the fortunes of Arthur as a figure contested and celebrated in equal measure between Malory's Morte Darthur (1485), and Milton's History of Britain (1670).
Maley, Willy, Swann, Adam
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Medievalism: a Critical History

open access: yesChoice Reviews Online, 2015
An accessibly-written survey of the origins and growth of the discipline of medievalism studies. The field known as "medievalism studies" concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval from the Reformation to postmodernity,from Bale and Leland to HBO'
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Arts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
For historians of medieval Iberian art and architecture, María Rosa Menocal’s most important legacy lies in her work’s normalization of a culturally decentralized, multidisciplinary frame through which medieval visual objects became part of a broadly ...
Pamela Patton
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Mesa Redonda Complex (Villaverde del Río, Seville): a tell above the Lower Guadalquivir Valley

open access: yesTrabajos de Prehistoria
The archaeological site of Mesa Redonda (Villaverde del Río, Seville) was the subject of archaeological research at the end of the 1970s, and only recently has new research been carried out.
Marta Diaz-Zorita Bonilla   +7 more
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Armenian Expedition of Emperor Constantius II in 338/339 A.D. and Military Units of Thracian Expeditionary Army at the Near East: on the Late Roman Military Organization in the Mid-4th Century

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017
The present paper deals with the history of military corps, which Roman emperor Constantius II sent to Great Armenia in 338/339 A.D. for to fight with the Persians.
10.15688/jvolsu4.2017.5.26
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Legal Fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
While numerous ancient human DNA datasets from across Europe have been published till date, modern-day Poland in particular, remains uninvestigated. Besides application in the reconstruction of continent-wide human history, data from this region would ...
Dabert, Miroslawa   +8 more
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