The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.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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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.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 variation et le changement en langue (langues romanes) [PDF]
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 323-352, May 2026.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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Public Health and Rote of the Head of State: A Study of Islamic Fiqha and Latin Rules = مصلحت عامہ سے متعلق حاکم وقت کا دائرہ اختیار: فقہی اورلاطینی قواعد کا مطالعہ [PDF]
Hazara Islamicus, 2017 The primary sources of Qawaid-e-Fighiyyah (legal maxims) are the Quran, Hadith, sayings of the companions of Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W), sayings of jurists' Ijmaa and Qayas.
Dr Hafiz Muhammad Ibrahim +1 more
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Suárez on the Contingency of Causal Origin
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 694-706, May 2026.ABSTRACT Do individuals have their actual causal origins necessarily? Or could one and the same individual also have had a causal origin other than its actual one? Late medieval and early modern Aristotelians confront this question in the course of their discussions of the metaphysics of causation. In this paper, I discuss and evaluate Francisco Suárez'
Han Thomas Adriaenssen
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Expression et position du sujet pronominal en français : évolution en français [PDF]
, 2010 International audienceModern French greatly differs not only from other Romance languages but also from Old French with regard to the position and the expression of pronominal subjects.
Prévost, Sophie
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One script for two languages. Latin & Arabic in an early allographic papyrus [PDF]
, 2018 This contribution presents a unique papyrus letter in Latin script and Latin language and in Latin script and Arabic language that is possible to date, on palaeographic grounds, from the end of the 7th to the 9th century AD. This precious witness is exam-
D'Ottone, Arianna, Internullo, Dario
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HOVEN, René, Lexique de la prose latine de la Renaissance [PDF]
, 1995 Valcke, Louis
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Démonstratif et déixis discursive : analyse comparée d'un corpus écrit de français médiéval et d'un corpus oral de français contemporain [PDF]
, 2006 Journal ArticleThis paper deals with one of the major pragmatic uses of the demonstrative in French, the discourse deictic use (Himmelmann 1996). We argue that in this use, the demonstrative, which refers to the interpretation of one or more clauses, is ...
Guillot, Céline
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