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Looking Beyond Jerusalem: A Fifteenth‐Century Exercise in Image Comparison
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 640-666, September 2023., 2023 Critical image comparison is a widespread art‐historical practice. This essay explores why a Brabantine artist encouraged viewers to exercise it in the late fifteenth century. At the time, northern European artists tested out how images could be means of transcending the visible world while simultaneously showcasing their very constructedness. The self‐
Hanna Vorholt
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Translating German Emperors: A Staufen–Sicilian Synthesis under Henry VI?
The German Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 2, Page 163-179, Spring 2023., 2023 Abstract The Staufen conquest of the Kingdom of Sicily in 1194 can be understood as the violent destruction of a sophisticated and cosmopolitan Norman kingdom and its replacement by a new dynasty with starkly different cultural and political models. Indeed, many contemporary authors decried the brutality associated with Henry VI's conquest.
Philippa Byrne
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 536-557, November 2022., 2022 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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Early mechanisms of abbatial succession: the case of Iona (563–704)
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 73-100, February 2022., 2022 Comments about succession to the Iona abbacy rarely go beyond the observation that most of the early abbots – but not all – belonged to the Cenél Conaill, the kindred of Iona’s founder, Saint Columba. This point privileges the role of eligibility criteria in the succession process at the expense of agency.
Patrick McAlary
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 555-585, November 2021., 2021 In the early medieval west, patronate, as adapted from Roman law, was a fundamental category in determining the legal status of freedmen. In many cases it entailed a basic set of obligations. In an increasing number of situations, however, the patron became an ecclesiastical institution, since slaves and freed persons were often given to churches and ...
Stefan Esders
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‘Dark’ and ‘Clear’ Y in Medieval Welsh Orthography: Caligula versus Teilo
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 119, Issue 1, Page 1-39, March 2021., 2021 Abstract A famous exception to the ‘phonetic spelling system’ of Welsh is the use of
Patrick Sims‐Williams
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Historia Roderici: fecha y lugar de composición
E-Spania, 2021 Le segment 1-5 de l’Historia Roderici, où sont exposés la généalogie de Ruy Diaz et ses premiers faits sous le règne de Sanche II de Castille, partage de nombreuses données avec la riche tradition historiographique du XIIe siècle espagnol, notamment avec
Georges Martin
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The significance of the Carolingian advocate [PDF]
, 2009 This article argues that ninth-century advocates in the Frankish world deserve more attention than they have received. Exploring some of the wealth of relevant evidence, it reviews and critiques both current historiographical approaches to the issue ...
West, Charles
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Revista de Literatura Medieval, 2023 El artículo muestra cómo en el Liber sancti Iacobi (LSI) y la De rebus Britonum (DRB) tiene lugar lo que parece ser una polémica literaria entre sus respectivos autores. En el LSI, el poitevino Aimerico Picaud combina una exagerada muestra de admiración
José María Anguita Jaén
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