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`Behold I Make All Things New': Design and Experience in Thirteenth-Century French Architecture

open access: yes, 2006
Lecture held April 5, 2006, 7 p.m. in Woodward Hall, UNM as the fifth lecture of the Institute for Medieval Studies' Spring Lecture Series 2006.The soaring architecture of the great Gothic cathedrals represents one of the outstanding technical and ...
Davis, Michael T.
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Synchrotron X‐ray tomography and spectroscopy in numismatics: disclosing counterfeit practices in medieval silver coins

open access: yesJournal of Synchrotron Radiation, EarlyView.
Advanced synchrotron‐radiation‐based imaging and spectroscopic techniques were used to investigate the distribution and nature of mercury in numismatic artifacts, with a particular focus on its role in historical counterfeiting practices.This study explores the use of advanced synchrotron radiation (SR)‐based imaging and spectroscopic techniques to ...
Simona Raneri   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Architecture Serving Words: Sensus Litteralis in Richard of Saint Victor’s Exegesis

open access: yesReligions
Medieval biblical exegesis in the twelfth century was largely dominated by allegorical interpretation, often at the expense of the literal sense of Scripture. Richard of Saint Victor stands out as a significant exception.
María José Zegers-Correa
doaj   +1 more source

Douglas Brine, Pious Memories : the Wall-Mounted Memorial in the Burgundian Netherlands (2015)

open access: yes, 2016
This book review of "Pious Memories: the Wall-Mounted Memorial in the Burgundian Netherlands" by Douglas Brine (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015) is written for Medieval European Studies, an annual journal of Japan Society for Medieval European Studies (vol. 8,
Sugiyama, Miyako   +1 more
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Toasting With Strangers? Export Spillovers From Chinese Winery Acquisitions in the Bordeaux Vineyards

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Foreign entrants may threaten and, at the same time, present local companies with opportunities for favourable spillovers. Building on the awareness‐motivation‐capability framework, this paper aims to provide empirical evidence for a positive co‐location or spatial proximity effect of foreign presence on local peer companies’ exports.
Pierre‐Xavier Meschi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

125 years of exploration and research at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK) 125 ans d'exploration et de recherches à Gough's Cave (Somerset, Royaume‐Uni)

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Sacred Kingship, Genealogy and the Late Medieval Roodscreen: Catfield and Beyond’

open access: yes, 2017
A study (10,000 words) of the royal imagery of English medieval church screens, with special reference to the screen of Catfield church ...
Luxford, Julian Marcus
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Trinkets and Charms: the use, meaning and significance of later medieval and early post-medieval dress accessories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This is a thematic study of dress accessories of late medieval to early post-medieval date from two regions of mainland Britain. It is an investigation of everyday objects which aims to re-engage the material world with past individuals.
STANDLEY, ELEANOR,ROSE
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Conceptualizing moral migration: how disillusionment and the transnational right motivate migration to Russia Conceptualiser la migration morale : comment les désillusions et la droite transnationale motivent l’émigration vers la Russie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
wiley   +1 more source

The Concept of Medieval Stasis: From Medieval Studies to Medievalism, from Medievalism to Political Culture

open access: yesJournal of Frontier Studies
The purpose of the article is to analyze the principles of intellectual history of medieval stasis, borrowed from academic medieval studies and brought into modern mass cultural medievalism. The article analyzes, on the one hand, the problems of gradual revision of the theory of medieval stasis in academic historiography, and on the other hand, the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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