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This article explores fourth‐ to seventh‐century narratives about oaths of collective secrecy, which our sources typically frame negatively. By examining the terminology used in reference to these promises, the dynamics inherent in the practice and its relationship to oath‐taking customs in other contexts, and the influence of Christianity on the ...
Michael Wuk
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The notion of ‘equity’ is undergoing conceptual repositioning in international law today, embracing individuals as well as states and gaining an association with human rights and the politics of protest. In the context of these developments, the present paper enquires into the premodern roots of this ancient and rich term through three historical ...
Stephen Humphreys
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Around 1000, a new type of law‐book emerged in Catalonia and northern Italy that attests to new ways of handling legal material. Incorporating in full the Visigothic and Lombard law codes, respectively, these law‐books provided a base for studying and interpreting old law through comments, glosses etc., addressing new users such as lay judges.
Stefan Esders
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The building projects and the Histories of Gregory of Tours
This article offers a fresh perspective on the life and works of the sixth‐century bishop Gregory of Tours by analysing Gregory’s magnum opus, the Histories, alongside a frequently overlooked aspect of his episcopal career: his restoration of the cathedral church of Tours and St Martin’s basilica following their devastation by fire in the time of his ...
John Merrington
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The Royal Prayerbook’s blood‐staunching charms and early Insular scribal communities
The Royal Prayerbook contains a variety of entries aimed at staunching a flow of blood, three of which are related by a shared poetic motif. An examination of the elements in these texts suggests that all three are a meditation on a scene from the gospels, the healing of the woman with the issue of blood.
Emily Kesling
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Datation (743-744), contextualisation et traduction en espagnol de la Chronica byzantia-arabica.
Jose Carlos MARTÍN
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Meri-dies according to Latin authors from Cicero to Anthony of Padua : the various uses of a commonplace etymology [PDF]
The etymology of meridies stands as a commonplace in the Latin literary tradition. The present article aims to expand on the evidence collected by Maltby in his 1991 A Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies - primarily by extending its historical scope ...
Denecker, Tim
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Sacerdos vs. Episcopus. The employment of the Treatise de septem ordinibus ecclesiae by Isidore of Seville (a source study) [PDF]
The aim of this article is to reveal the methods and characteristic features of Isidore of Seville’s interpretation of the anonymous text De septem ordinibus ecclesiae (5th — early 7th centuries). This text, traditionally attributed to St.
Elena Marey
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Le Saint-Sépulcre de Constance du XIIIe siècle, réceptacle eucharistique au service du "pèlerinage intérieur" [PDF]
Érigé autour de 1260, l’édifice dodécagonal qui s’élève au milieu de la rotonde Saint-Maurice, située près de la cathédrale de Constance, est le successeur d’un Saint-Sépulcre architectonique contemporain de la rotonde construite vers le milieu du Xe ...
Kurmann, Peter
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Gilds, states and societies in the early Middle Ages
The early medieval gilds of north‐west Europe were very different from their later medieval descendants. They were not specifically urban or economic in focus, instead being based on religious devotion, feasting and mutual protection, usually among members united by status and geography.
Rory Naismith
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