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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
wiley   +1 more source

A newly discovered Carolingian text: Candidus' Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti, written for Charlemagne

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlemagne. By discussing selected passages from the Heptateuch, Candidus seeks to demonstrate that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, thus the whole Christian ...
Lukas J. Dorfbauer
wiley   +1 more source

The Oral Microbiome of King Richard III of England. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Biol Anthropol
Velsko IM   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Hidden History of Unhappiness

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Joe Moran
wiley   +1 more source

Ceramic ecology in an Islamic capital: changes in the production and consumption of pottery in Palermo

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Palermo became the new capital of Sicily after the Aghlabid conquest in 831. The transformation of the city into a capital took many forms, including the production and consumption of pottery. The perspective from ceramic evidence shows that Palermo underwent faster and deeper processes of Islamization than other urban and rural contexts across the ...
Viva Sacco
wiley   +1 more source

Relics, writing, and devotion in early medieval Chelles

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
The discovery in 1983 of a collection of relics with their medieval identificatory tags in the parish church of Chelles opened new avenues for research on devotional and writing practices in this Frankish royal foundation. This is the first systematic study of the corpus of relic labels that accompanied these sacred objects, particularly of the subset ...
Ana de Oliveira Dias
wiley   +1 more source

Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
wiley   +1 more source

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