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Hagiographies and the History of Medieval Ethiopia*
History in Africa, 1981The hagiographic literature of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church may be divided into two major categories: the translated lives of the saints and martyrs of the early Christian church and the lives of local saints. The essentially foreign works, which constitute the first of these groups, will be of only peripheral concern in this paper.
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2021
Abstract The history of the medieval Nubian state begins as it ends, in a state of decentralization. The core of that state emerges through the unification of Nobadia in the north and Makuria in the center of the Nubian heartland, perhaps at some point in the 7th century.
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Abstract The history of the medieval Nubian state begins as it ends, in a state of decentralization. The core of that state emerges through the unification of Nobadia in the north and Makuria in the center of the Nubian heartland, perhaps at some point in the 7th century.
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Dialogues in Human Geography, 2011
This paper examines the marginal place of ‘medieval geography’ in contemporary geographical scholarship. Over the past two decades, geographers' studies of the subject’s historiography have tended to focus mainly on ‘modern’ and ‘early-modern’ rather than medieval geographies.
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This paper examines the marginal place of ‘medieval geography’ in contemporary geographical scholarship. Over the past two decades, geographers' studies of the subject’s historiography have tended to focus mainly on ‘modern’ and ‘early-modern’ rather than medieval geographies.
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2005
What is medieval history actually for? What does it do? Why should we be bothered with it? At one level, the answers to these questions are rooted in the ways that cultures use the past. For individuals and for groups of all sizes the past is a fund of images and stories mobilized to instil a sense of direction and to create and sustain identities.
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What is medieval history actually for? What does it do? Why should we be bothered with it? At one level, the answers to these questions are rooted in the ways that cultures use the past. For individuals and for groups of all sizes the past is a fund of images and stories mobilized to instil a sense of direction and to create and sustain identities.
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A Medieval Conclusion of History and Ideas of History
2018What on earth are the embodiments of the growth of the historical writing? Concerned answers greatly differ from each other. In this regard, the present author concludes four types of historiographical development. First, formally, the growth is embodied in the growing number of history books and the diversifying genres of historical writing.
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Medieval Japan. Essays in Institutional History
Journal of Japanese Studies, 1975John Brownlee +2 more
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Medieval Women and the Sources of Medieval History
History: Reviews of New Books, 1991openaire +2 more sources