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Women in Medieval History and Historiography

, 1987
What was the status of women in the Middle Ages? How have women fared in the hands of historians? And, what is the current state of research about women in the Middle Ages? Susan Mosher Stuard and contributors address these questions.
S. Stuard
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Is Medieval History Relevant?

2005
What is medieval history actually for? What does it do? Why should we be bothered with it? At one level, the answers to these questions are rooted in the ways that cultures use the past. For individuals and for groups of all sizes the past is a fund of images and stories mobilized to instil a sense of direction and to create and sustain identities.
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Medieval history and theory: a conversation

Rethinking History, 2018
This interview took place at the home of Christopher Wickham (CW) in Birmingham in February 2018. Wickham, Professor Emeritus at All Souls, Oxford, is an eminent medieval historian.
Chris Wickham, Daniel Fairbrother
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The Future of Medieval Church History

Church History, 2002
For centuries, from its Roman endorsement as imperial cult around the year 400 to its revolutionary disestablishment in the 1790s, the Christian religion laid claim to the allegiance of Europe's peoples, even a right to set policies about Jews. This fateful historical conjunction between the making of Europe and the spread of Christian allegiance ...
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The Evidence for Medieval History

2005
We have seen in Chapter 2 that our understanding of a historical period is affected by the chronological divisions that we project onto the past and the loaded terminology that we apply. Another, ultimately more fruitful, way of understanding a period is to come at it through the primary sources that it has left us.
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The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History

The Geographical Journal, 1953
v. 1. The later Roman Empire of the twelfth century.--v. 2. The twelfth century to the Renaissance.
G. R. C., C. W. Previte-Orton
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A Medieval Conclusion of History and Ideas of History

2018
What on earth are the embodiments of the growth of the historical writing? Concerned answers greatly differ from each other. In this regard, the present author concludes four types of historiographical development. First, formally, the growth is embodied in the growing number of history books and the diversifying genres of historical writing.
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Persistence of a vegetation mosaic in a peripheral region: could turbulent medieval history disrupt Holocene continuity of extremely species-rich grasslands?

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2018
P. Hájková, E. Jamrichová, L. Petr, L. Dudová, J. Roleček, Andrea Galova, P. Dresler, J. Novák, M. Hájek   +8 more
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Medieval History from the Margins

History Compass, 2015
AbstractAround 1000 CE, minorities like Jews, heretics, and Muslims, the physically and mentally ill, and gay men began experiencing increased persecution in medieval Europe. This pedagogy‐focused article on a thematic medieval history course surveys major works on persecution, sexual identity, gender identity, religious violence, and deviance. A brief
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Dementia, personhood and embodiment: What can we learn from the medieval history of memory?

Dementia, 2013
S. Katz
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