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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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Medieval heraldry : a cultural creation for a secular society [PDF]
, 2006 This paper aims to show how Heraldry is a medieval cultural phenomenon of first importance created and developed outside the ecclesiastical world, through the analysis of three specific aspects: its origins, the language for the heraldic description ...
Marí i Brull, Gerard
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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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El Gaudemus Igitur: Una interpretación
Káñina, 2005 La siguiente lectura retórica se fundamenta, por el contenido, en el contexto social e ideológico de los Carmina Burana; por la forma y el estilo, en el juego de las múltiples figuras de pensamiento, significación, elocución, contracción, ritmo y melodía.
Luciana Sparisci Lovicelli
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Qu’attendre d’une comparaison des scolastiques ?
Socio-anthropologie, 2017 The geographical, cultural and historical context of the study of medieval philosophy has been remarkably extended during the last decades, with “medieval philosophy” referring to all Latin, Islamic, Jewish and Byzantine—i.e.
Vincent Eltschinger
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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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La sátira contra la curia romana en el poema burano Licet eger cum egrotis.
Káñina, 2012 El artículo se refiere a la importancia de los goliardos como representantes de la literatura latina medieval. Asimismo, presenta de manera general la situación de la Curia Romana en el siglo XII y analiza un poema de los Carmina Burana como ejemplo de ...
Maricela Cerdas Fallas
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Open Research EuropeThis study investigates the Old Irish glossing tradition on the Venerable Bede’s De Temporum Ratione, a computistical work from the early eighth century. Its main source is the Vienna Bede, a fragmentary manuscript with Old Irish and Latin glosses dating
Bernhard Bauer
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Romanicidad del poema de Mio Cid
Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015 Este artículo presenta algunas relaciones entre el latín y el romance castellano sobre la base de un estudio etimológico de las dos primeras estrofas del Cantar de Mio Cid, una de las más importantes creaciones literarias de la España medieval. A tal fin,
Manuel Antonio Quirós Rodríguez
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
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