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Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism
CalendaFollowing the Chaucer: Here and Now exhibition (2023-2024) at the Bodleian Library, this conference - sponsored by the Modernités Médiévales association and the New Chaucer Society - aims to continue the reflection on the medievalist dimension of Geoffrey Chaucer's work and its persistent influence in contemporary culture.
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Rulers on the road: Itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common yet insufficiently researched, premodern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519, we argue that rulers' visits targeted “marginal” elites.
Carl Müller‐Crepon +3 more
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Childhood as cognition, or taking Ariès at his word
Kasvatus & Aika, 2008 The paper reflects on how Philippe Ariès’s work, Centuries of Childhood (1962[1960]), and its (in)famous conclusion, “[i]n medieval society the idea of childhood did not exist,” can inform a cognitive approach to childhood.
Karen Stanbridge
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Arabic phrase Allāhu a‘lam—“God knows best”—is used frequently in everyday Muslim speech and to conclude seemingly assertive statements or fatwas. At its heart lies the recognition that God is the All‐Knowing, whereas humans know next to nothing. Reflecting on this recognition, this essay discusses Sufi refusals of the ethnographic project
Amira Mittermaier
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A genetic and historical perspective on the origins of keratitis fugax hereditaria
Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose To investigate the genetic and genealogical background of keratitis fugax hereditaria (KFH), a periodic corneal disease caused by the heterozygous pathogenic variant c.61G>C in the NLRP3 gene. KFH is characterized by recurrent unilateral autoinflammatory attacks alternating between the eyes and permanent corneal opacities.
Annamari T. Immonen +7 more
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Fantasmagories du Moyen Âge. Entre médiéval et moyenâgeux
Perspectives Médiévales, 2012 Mireille Séguy
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age
, 2021 How did tenth-century readers describe the experience of reading—or merely holding—books? The related early medieval experience of education has received much more attention, with an important new study by Irina Dumitrescu that illuminates the emotionally fraught and sometimes troubling relationships that subsisted between teachers and students.
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Bilateral Supracondylar Process in a Subadult in the Late Antique Age: A Case Report
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the excavation procedures for the railway trait Napoli‐Cancello, in the city of Afragola (Naples), several burials dating back to the Late Antique Age were found. One of them was an amphora burial (enchytrismòs) and contained the skeletal remains of a subadult individual affected by bilateral supracondylar process. Supracondylar process
Barbara Albanese +3 more
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History Matters at Ty Mawr Medieval Hall
EXARC Journal, 2014 Ty Mawr - ‘Great House’ Nestled in the hills of Montgomeryshire lies a gem of medieval history, the enigmatic Ty Mawr hall (Ball 2009a) rediscovered in the late 20th century, yet over 500 years old.
Gary Ball
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