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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
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Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
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Glosses, Gaps and Gender: The Rise of Female Elves in Anglo-Saxon Culture [PDF]
, 2007 It is difficult to detect lexical change within Old English, since most of our texts derive from a relatively short period, but lexical change can afford valuable insights into cultural change.
Hall, Alaric
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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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DOMUS : un mot-relique dans la toponymie de la France
Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics, 2015 Latin domus n’était jusqu’ici connu en France que dans le lexique latin médiéval et la vie française de saint Léger. La (micro)toponymie permet de restituer sa présence en de nombreux exemplaires, sous diverses formes morphologiques ; les sources ...
Pierre-Henry Billy
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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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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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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Cultural contacts and ethnic origins in Viking Age Wales and northern Britain: the case of Albanus, Britain's first inhabitant and Scottish ancestor [PDF]
, 2015 Albanus, an eponymous ancestor for the kingdom of Alba, provides an example of the extent to which the creation of an ethnic identity was accompanied by new ideas about origins, which replaced previous accounts.
Evans, Nicholas J.
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the doctrine of Christ’s two states of humiliation and exaltation in Herman Bavinck’s and John Calvin’s thought, with the aim of illuminating Bavinck’s use of Calvin. The article begins by exploring Calvin’s use of the two states and argues that his treatment of Christ’s descent into hell is an important though ...
Sarah Killam Crosby
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