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Guide to Medieval History

Reference Services Review, 1985
In the past 50 years, numerous reference books have been written on the subjects of medieval history, art, literature, and philosophy. Steven F. Vincent provides a guide to selecting modern, as well as standard, sources of information on the Middle Ages.
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Hagiographies and the History of Medieval Ethiopia*

History in Africa, 1981
The hagiographic literature of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church may be divided into two major categories: the translated lives of the saints and martyrs of the early Christian church and the lives of local saints. The essentially foreign works, which constitute the first of these groups, will be of only peripheral concern in this paper.
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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 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 Making of the Cambridge Medieval History

Speculum, 1982
Early in the summer of 1916 J. P. Whitney, coeditor of the Cambridge Medieval History, submitted a report to the Syndicate of the Press recommending that the enemy alien contributors to volume 3 of the History, then at an advanced stage of preparation, be discharged forthwith.
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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 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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The History of Medieval Theatre / Theatre of Medieval History: Dramatic Documents and the Performance of the Past

History Compass, 2009
AbstractTheatre history has long been a sub‐discipline of literary criticism or, more recently, performance studies; it is usually not the province of trained historians. While potentially problematic for the study of any period, this trend has had a particularly limiting effect on the study of medieval drama and its larger historical contexts.
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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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Geography’s medieval history

Dialogues in Human Geography, 2011
This paper examines the marginal place of ‘medieval geography’ in contemporary geographical scholarship. Over the past two decades, geographers' studies of the subject’s historiography have tended to focus mainly on ‘modern’ and ‘early-modern’ rather than medieval geographies.
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