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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30

open access: yesEarly 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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Without Blinding Darkness : The Imagery of Divine Light in Nauigatio Sancti Brendani [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The motif of divine light is prominent in such early medieval Irish and Latin texts as Adomnán’s Life of Columba (Vita Columbæ), Vision of Saint Paul (Visio Sancti Pauli), and the Life of Brendan (Betha Brenainn).
Ireland, Darcy
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Making English a New Latin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The paper looks at various aspects of the so-called Latin-English analogy and particularly at the ways in which English may share the fate of Latin in ultimately becoming a victim of its own success.
Scheuer, Sylwia
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Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti‐colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens ...
Joanna Allan, Moiti Mohamed Azrouk
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Latim ou português? Estruturas vernaculares no foral de Santa Cruz de Vilariça

open access: yesRomanica Cracoviensia
Medieval 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
doaj   +1 more source

Cosmopolitanism or Competition?Late Medieval Pilgrims at the Eastern Christian Holy Places

open access: yesÉtudes 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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Kissing Heaven’s door: the Judas episode in the Voyage of Brendan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper discusses the Judas episode and a number of versions of the Voyage of Brendan and the Irish and Latin Vitae of Brendan, as well as the ‘Twelve Apostles of Ireland’.
Mackley, J S
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Translating sanctuary: Politics of solidarity in a bilingual and plurinational context

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract The paper examines the significance of translating sanctuary in an officially bilingual (and multilingual in practice) national polity. By examining the different meanings of the translation of 'sanctuary' into ‘lloches’ and ‘noddfa’ in Welsh, we outline the different openings for more nuanced understandings of ‘host’/‘guest’ relations ...
Catrin Wyn Edwards, Rhys Dafydd Jones
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Actas I Congreso Nacional de Latín Medieval (León, 1-4 de diciembre de 1993)

open access: yesMedievalia, 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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Guest Editors' Introduction: Teaching Medieval Literature off the Grid [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Introduction to special issue of the journal Pedagogy: Teaching Medieval Literature off the ...
Gina Brandolino, Nathanial Smith
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