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‘Medieval Latin’ and ‘Neo-Latin’: Epochal Polarity or Stereotypical Terms?
thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 2015 ENGLISH Classicists are paying more and more attention to the postclassical stages of Latin after the fall of the Roman empire, either as a special case of reception of antiquity or as a continuing tradition of Latin language and literature until the ...
Stefan Tilg
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The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper moves beyond the focus on ‘average’ wage trends in pre‐industrial economies by examining the broad diversity of pay rates and forms of remuneration across occupations and regions in medieval England. We find that whilst some workers enjoyed substantial growth in wage rates after the Black Death, there was a large group who ...
Jordan Claridge +2 more
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I Quaderni del MAESThe chartulary of the abbey of Subiaco in Latium, written between the 11th and the 12th centuries, contains four documents with transcriptions of oral testimonies pronounced during trials.
Luca Pocher
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.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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Latim ou português? Estruturas vernaculares no foral de Santa Cruz de Vilariça
Romanica CracoviensiaMedieval charters played a fundamental role in establishing rights and duties between the king and local communities. In Portugal, until the reign of D.
Joanna Serafim
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Cosmopolitanism or Competition?Late Medieval Pilgrims at the Eastern Christian Holy Places
Études Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2017 This essay explores the Western Latin pilgrims in the Holy Land in the late medieval period and their reactions to Eastern Christian communities, particularly the Georgians and the Armenians that they encountered during their visits to the Holy places ...
Anthony Bale
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.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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Actas I Congreso Nacional de Latín Medieval (León, 1-4 de diciembre de 1993)
Medievalia, 2016 Actas I Congreso Nacional de Latín Medieval (León, 1-4 de diciembre de 1993), coordinador Maurilio Pérez González, León: Universidad de León, Secretariado de Publicaciones, 1995, 670 pp.
Alejandro Higashi
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.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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