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Paul and the Late Middle Ages

2009
The canonical Paul of the Pastoral and the Petrine Epistles was by no means the only legitimate continuation of Paul's legacy. Recent work on the cultural setting of Paul's world and the early Christian apocryphal literature outside the New Testament has led to a further important insight.
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Quintilian in the Late Middle Ages

Speculum, 1952
WHO read Quintilian in the Middle Ages? Nine out of ten scholars probably did not. Yet it is interesting to examine the line of scholars who did study Quintilian and to inquire how and why they established this acquaintance. The transmission of Quintilian through the Middle Ages consequently has had its share of probings by French, English, and German ...
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Germany and the Papacy in the Late Middle Ages [PDF]

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2020
Towards the end of the twentieth century much UK public money for research was diverted to collaborative projects with specific research objectives, notably in the field of history. This distinguished the UK from other countries on the cutting edge of historical research, notably the USA which lags far behind, but not from Germany, which had long led ...
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Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages

2023
The petitions received and the letters sent by the Papal Chancery during the Late Middle Ages attest to the recognition of disability at the highest levels of the medieval Church. These documents acknowledge the existence of physical and/or mental impairments, with the papacy issuing dispensations allowing some supplicants to adapt their clerical ...
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The Late Middle Ages, 1350–1530

2021
The period after the Black Death saw a dramatic demographic reversal and significant structural economic change, including the withdrawal of lords from direct farming. Vale and Chilterns remained distinctive, but in some links were strengthened and experiential differences were reduced.
Stephen Mileson, Stuart Brookes
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The Popular Revolutions of the Late Middle Ages

, 2021
Michel Mollat, P. Wolff
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The nobility of the late Middle Ages

2003
The importance of the nobility depended to a great extent on its wealth, mainly in land. This chapter first talks about Scandinavian nobility during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the latter half of the fourteenth century the number of noblemen in Norway and Denmark decreased.
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Frontier Societies and Crusading in the Late Middle Ages

Mediterranean Historical Review, 1995
There is general agreement amongst historians that during its 'classical period', crusading was influenced to only a limited degree by Christendom's frontier societies. The First Crusade had its origin in the interaction between a reforming papacy and a warrior aristocracy concerned for its own salvation, which occurred within the heartlands of post ...
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Late Middle Ages—Europe

At the end of the late Middle Ages, there had been changes in indications for surgery, with prophylactic trepanation falling out of favor. The management of wounds and the methods for opening the cranium had become fairly standardized. Narrow non-plunging trepans were the preferred drills, and cranial openings were widened by the use of multiple drill ...
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Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages

2020
Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period. Saints, Infirmity, and Community in the Late Middle Ages analyses the meanings given to putative saints’ bodily infirmities in late medieval canonization hearings. How was an individual saint’s bodily
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