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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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LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES

2022
AbstractThe four sections of this chapter describe time instruments in the Byzantine and Arab–Islamic worlds—sundials, water clocks, and the introduction of European weight and spring-driven clocks and watches. The account of activity in Arabo/Persian Islamic regions is discussed through to the twentieth century. It discusses in detail the sundials and
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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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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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Late Middle Ages: Direction Comes of Age

2000
During the late medieval and the early modern periods in Western Christianity, spiritual direction came into full maturity. Women are at the center of the maturation process, particularly women mystics. For a few decades now we have seen scholars give women like Julian of Norwich, Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, and Catherine of Bologna their ...
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Dance in the Late Middle Ages

2021
Abstract The final chapter documents the demise of sacred dance at the end of the Middle Ages, c.1350–1450. Focusing on dance mania and the dance of death, it shows how dance gradually became associated with decadent and morbid, rather than religious and heavenly, motifs.
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Late-middle age

2023
Arturo Ezquerro, María Cañete
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The Late Middle Ages 1250–1500

2000
Abstract In addition to the documentation held in royal, seigneurial,ecclesiastical, and urban archives, the historian of Spain fromthe mid-thirteenth century down to the accession of theCatholic Kings, Ferdinand and Isabella, has at his disposalsplendid series of chronicles.
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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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Late Latin Grammars in the Early Middle Ages

Historiographia Linguistica, 1986
Summary The popularity, and hence survival, of certain of the grammars of late Antiquity in the early Middle Ages can to a large extent be described in typological terms. The two principal ancient genres, the Schulgrammatik and the regulae type, were joined in the fifth century by a new genre, the grammatical commentary.
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