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Medieval Icelandic Studies [PDF]
Oral Tradition, 2003 In the field of medieval Icelandic studies, “the oral tradition” refers to the accumulated and encyclopedic knowledge (both sacred and profane) that was passed on from person to person before and after writing was first introduced into the newly Christianized society of Iceland.
Gísli Sigurðsson
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Eikón Imago, 2022 After the expeditions of wealthy merchants and Franciscan missionaries during the 14th century, the Chinese empire under Ming rule did not engage profusely with the European world, and vice versa.
Antonio de Caro
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Religious Vocabulary on Creation: Eriugena, Hildegard of Bingen, Eckhart
Religions, 2023 This paper departs from biblical images of creation (wisdom, word, mirror), and goes on to consider those images in three medieval thinkers from the Neoplatonist tradition.
María Jesús Soto-Bruna
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The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies [PDF]
, 2008 'The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies' uses a brief survey of current work on Old English poetry as the point of departure for arguing that although useful, the concepts of orality and literacy have, in medieval studies ...
Hall, Alaric
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Narrative strategies at the crossroads of Byzantine and western visual traditions. The pictorial cycle of St. Catherine of Alexandria in Darlos, Transylvania [PDF]
Zograf, 2021 Made by Byzantine painters for Catholic patrons, the fresco cycle of St. Catherine of Alexandria in Darlos stands apart from other late-medieval cycles.
Năstăsoiu Dragoş Gh.
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Scientific Reports, 2017 In their recent article published in the journal Scientific Reports, Büntgen and Di Cosmo have attempted to solve the historical mystery of the sudden Mongol withdrawal from Hungary after a year-long occupation.
Zsolt Pinke +4 more
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Two swords from the foundation of Gibraltar
Gladius, 2002 Las dos espadas, junto con sus correspondientes vainas y restos de cinto o tahalí, halladas en Martin’s Cave (Gibraltar), deben fecharse en el siglo XII d.C. Esta datación se basa en la tipología de los objetos, en su contexto histórico-cultural, y en su
David Nicolle
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"The Butcher's Bill": Using the Schoenberg Database to Reverse-Engineer Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Books from Constituent Fragments [PDF]
, 2016 Medieval manuscripts are perishable objects. Whether they have degraded over time through constant use and exposure to the elements or been deliberately cut up to be reused in other fashions or sold on the collectors’ market, the fragments produced by ...
Gwara, Scott, Johnson, Eric J.
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Reconstructing Rebellion: Digital Terrain Analysis of the Battle of Dussindale (1549)
Internet Archaeology, 2015 On 27 August 1549, the popular East Anglian insurgency known as 'Kett's Rebellion' was defeated in a bloody confrontation with loyalist forces at the valley of Dussindale, just outside Norwich, England.
Alexander Hodgkins
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Studi Slavistici, 2022 This study is dedicated to the poem There Were Storms, Bad Weather… (Byli buri, nepogody…) (1839) by Еvgenij Baratynskij. The study analyzes in detail the semantic development of the text, leading to a strong and somewhat paradoxical ending that causes ...
Pavel Fedorovich Uspenskij +1 more
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