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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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The Speculum phisionomie by Michele Savonarola
, 2012 The relevance of the environment of the late medieval and Renaissance court, not only as a social and political context but also as an important hermeneutic criterion, is central for the understanding of a number of fifteenth-century scientific ...
Zuccolin, Gabriella
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 323-352, May 2026.This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
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The inventions of Sir Thomas Urquhart [PDF]
, 2018 Perhaps the most famous – or notorious – practitioner of baroque prose in the Scottish literary ‘canon’ is Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty (1611-1660). Urquhart was seen by contemporaries as primarily a humorous writer, a reputation he has sustained, and
Smith, Jeremy
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Suárez on the Contingency of Causal Origin
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 3, Page 694-706, May 2026.ABSTRACT Do individuals have their actual causal origins necessarily? Or could one and the same individual also have had a causal origin other than its actual one? Late medieval and early modern Aristotelians confront this question in the course of their discussions of the metaphysics of causation. In this paper, I discuss and evaluate Francisco Suárez'
Han Thomas Adriaenssen
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Circe de Clásicos y Modernos, 2018 Our objective is twofold: 1) to point out the convenience of incorporating some possible neologisms or other words found in Aquinas’ Commentary on John in future editions of lexicons or in new works devoted to Medieval Latin; 2) to reflect on the ...
Pablo Adrián Cavallero
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«Dir lo latí en so de romanç» [PDF]
, 1989 The author discusses the relationship between the two techniques of Medieval translation, the loss of Latin as the only written model and the creation of a literary language in Vulgar Latin in the 14th and 15th ...
Nadal, Josep M.
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Theorica et Practica: Historical Epistemology and the Re-Visioning of Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century Medicine [PDF]
, 2011 Positivist medical historians, guided by the savoir of modern western biomedicine, have long depicted medieval medicine as an aberration along the continuum of scientific and medical progress.
Gardenour, Brenda S.
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One script for two languages. Latin & Arabic in an early allographic papyrus [PDF]
, 2018 This contribution presents a unique papyrus letter in Latin script and Latin language and in Latin script and Arabic language that is possible to date, on palaeographic grounds, from the end of the 7th to the 9th century AD. This precious witness is exam-
D'Ottone, Arianna, Internullo, Dario
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