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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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Yseut et Tristan comme parents : le Roman d’Ysaÿe le Triste / Yseut and Tristan as Parents : the Romance of Ysaÿe le Triste [PDF]

Anastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art, 2018
When a rumor concerning the hero’s parents has the chance to become a medieval romance, the prequel is just as important, in its affective dimension and moral connotations, as the story itself.
Brînduşa Grigoriu
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The Shield of Achilles and the Temple of Venus

Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 1990
As diferenças entre a epopeia e o romance podem ser ressaltadas através da comparação da descrição do escudo de Aquiles, na Ilíada de Homero, e do Templo de Venus em The Knight’s Tale de Chaucer.
Stephen Lee Schwartz, João Pedro Mendes
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Seizing the Regno: Relics and the Politics of Aragonese Expansion in the Fifteenth‐Century Mediterranean

History, EarlyView.
Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
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The ‘Great Frost’ of 1708–9 in Britain and the Condescensions of Posterity

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the ‘great frost’ of 1709 and its impact on economic life in Britain, challenging a popular view that, based on gross domestic product (GDP) estimates, it was catastrophic. It shows that the annual GDP figures for the period have such wide error margins that they cannot establish the scale of the disruption; that the ...
Julian Hoppit
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Kanono refrakcija Antonios Susanos Byatt romane Apsėdimas | Refraction of the Canon in Antonia Susan Byatt’s Novel Possession [PDF]

Literatūra (Vilnius), 2005
The article focuses on the revision and transformation of the genre of romance, particularly in its 19th century poetical form, actualized in A. S. Byatt’s novel Possession through an enormous intertextual web of references.
Regina Rudaitytė
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El Cantar de Beotibar, ¿Un romance noticiero vasco?

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1986
The fragment of the Cantar de Beotibar included by Garibay in his Compendio Historial (1571) bears witness to the existence of a Basque romance form, probably of Low Medieval origins and possessing metrical characteristics related to those of the ...
Jon Juaristi
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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(Heroic) Fantasy and the Middle Ages – Strange Bedfellows or an Ideal Cast?

Itinéraires, 2010
The (popularly conceived) Middle Ages and (heroic) fantasy share a number of characteristics, such as settings in pre-technological and pre-bureaucratic worlds where men were not yet alienated from their fellow human beings and where things were more ...
Thomas Honegger
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From politics to economics: The investigation of the determinants of local administrative hierarchy in the Tang–Song transition

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 39-78, March 2025.
Abstract This study collects original data to examine the determinants of classification criteria of county hierarchy and its rank variations during the Tang–Song period. The results reveal that the county hierarchy was affected by both economic and political situations, with more emphasis on politics in Tang and economics in Song.
Nan Li, Heqi Cai
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