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Latim ou português? Estruturas vernaculares no foral de Santa Cruz de Vilariça
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
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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus
Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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F. A. C. Mantello y A. G. Rigg (eds.), Medieval latin: an introduction and bibliographical guide
F. A. C. Mantello y A. G. Rigg (eds.), Medieval latin: an introduction and bibliographical guide, Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1996, xiv + 774 pp.
Alejandro Higashi
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Cosmopolitanism or Competition?Late Medieval Pilgrims at the Eastern Christian Holy Places
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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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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A Petition Written by Ricardus Franciscus [PDF]
This article identifies Ricardus Franciscus as the scribe of Kew, The National Archives, C 49/30/19, a petition seeking the exoneration of the late Duke Humphrey of Gloucester. (d. 1447). The authors provide a palaeographical analysis of the "flamboyant,
Deborah Thorpe, Holly James Maddocks
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The Tree of Chivalry and the Black Lady: Juana of Castile's 1496 Joyous Entry into Brussels☆
Abstract Kupferstichkabinett MS 78D5 (Staatliche Museen Berlin) presents an iconographic account of the Joyous Entry of Juana of Castile into Brussels on 9 December 1496. In this article, we newly identify a rare visual record of a civic contribution to a tournament within the manuscript.
Nadia T. van Pelt +2 more
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Science by Conceptual Analysis: The Genius of the Late Scholastics [PDF]
The late scholastics, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, contributed to many fields of knowledge other than philosophy. They developed a method of conceptual analysis that was very productive in those disciplines in which theory is ...
Franklin, James
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Carlos Folgar, Diacronía de los objetos directo e indirecto (del latín al castellano medieval). Verba. Anuario galego de Filoloxía. Anexo 37, Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1993.
Paulina Calderón
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