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May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães. This was part of a failed attempt to repossess a number of land plots that they claimed were theirs, but had lost control of.
Julio Escalona
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The Armenian Convent of Holy Archangels in Jerusalem and its Epigraphic Heritage [PDF]

Cercetări Arheologice
The Armenian monasteries and churches in Jerusalem are rich in pilgrims’ inscriptions and graffiti, and the collection and publication of these inscriptions form the primary focus of my research, which began in 2019 as part of the project ‘The Armenian ...
Khachik Harutyunyan
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Borderless Boundaries – as Means of Death and Life: Wilderness Portraits in Patristic and Rabbinic Literature [PDF]

, 2015
This study examines the role played by environmental representation of an apparent borderless boundary, the desert, as presented in Scripture – the Hebrew Bible / First Testament.
Maoz, Daniel
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Encounters of a Third Kind: Mark Twain, William C. Prime and Protestant American Holy Land Narratives

Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2013
William C. Prime’s Tent Life in the Holy Land (1857) is mostly remembered now as the target of parody in The Innocents Abroad (1869), where, eager to promote his own “honest” and “impartial” account of Palestine, Mark Twain mocked the maudlin style of ...
Milette Shamir
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Worship: the source and summit of faith [PDF]

, 1983
In worship God comes to serve his people with his gifts. Worship, as God\u27s service of us, is the source of faith. Worship is also the summit of faith as God lifts his people to himself, to the service of others, to a reconciliation with the natural ...
Pfatteicher, Philip H.
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Images, Views and Landscapes of the Holy Land. Catholic and Protestant Travels to Ottoman Palestine during the 19th Century

Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2013
Rich in historical details and artistic illustrations of the Near East and the Holy Land, the selected accounts of journeys and pilgrimages written by European and American Christians (Catholic and Protestant) provide numerous and broad sets of views ...
Paolo Maggiolini
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Newly discovered inscriptions from the Armenian cathedral of St. James in Jerusalem

Cercetări Arheologice
The article focuses on the epigraphic legacy of the Armenian Cathedral of St. James in Jerusalem and its recently discovered inscriptions. Since the late 19th century, scholars have been gathering and publishing epigraphs from the Armenian Quarter of ...
Khachik Harutyunyan
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Organization and activities of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society in the context of the church brotherhood movement [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института
The article analyzes the activities of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IOPS) in the context of the church-social movement of the 1880s — early 1900s. The undertakings of the initiator of the establishment of the Society, V. N.
Polunov A. Yu.
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