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Preliminaries

Medieval Worlds, 2016
Institute for Medieval Research
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The Lindisfarne Gospels: The Transforming Power of Sacred Text

, 2006
Lecture held April 4, 2006, 4 p.m. in Woodward Hall, UNM as the second lecture of the Institute for Medieval Studies' Spring Lecture Series 2006.Of all forms of human knowledge, sacred texts may seem to be the least open to change over time.
Brown, Michelle P.
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‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
wiley   +1 more source

Actividades del Intituto de Historia Antigua, Medieval y Moderna. 2006-2007

, 2008
Fil: Instituto de Historia Antigua, Medieval y Moderna. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.
Instituto de Historia Antigua, Medieval y Moderna
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica: a medieval chronicle and its historical and literary context [PDF]

, 1998
Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica is almost unique amongst medieval English chronicles in having been written by a knight, and it is therefore surprising that so little work has been done on it; this thesis attempts to remedy that omission.
King, Andy
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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The Concept of Medieval Stasis: From Medieval Studies to Medievalism, from Medievalism to Political Culture

Journal of Frontier Studies
The purpose of the article is to analyze the principles of intellectual history of medieval stasis, borrowed from academic medieval studies and brought into modern mass cultural medievalism. The article analyzes, on the one hand, the problems of gradual revision of the theory of medieval stasis in academic historiography, and on the other hand, the ...
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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