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Gloriosa Regina or “Alien Queen”?: Some Reconsiderations on Anna Yaroslavna’s Queenship (r. 1050-1075)

open access: yesRoyal Studies Journal, 2016
The article questions the image that has emerged in secondary sources of Anna Yaroslavna (r. 1050- c. 1075), the Rus-born wife of King Henri I of France (d. 1060), as an “alien queen” who remained a foreigner in Capetian society.
Talia Zajac
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The “Making” of a National Saint: Reflections on the Formation of the Cult of Saint Jerome in the Eastern Adriatic

open access: yesIl Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2018
The aim of this paper is to provide the general overview of the development of the cult of Saint Jerome in the Eastern Adriatic Coast in the Late Middle Ages.
Ines Ivić
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Archaeology, mainly Polish, in the current discussion on the ethnogenesis of the Slavs

open access: yesSlavia Antiqua, 2022
This paper is an attempt at outlining the current state of discussion about the ethnogenesis of the Slavs, mainly within the framework of Polish scientific research, with particular consideration of archaeological theories, both in terms of their ...
Michał Kara
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One god and one king: The unification of Norway according to Snorri Sturluson

open access: yesFilologia Germanica
This article is a diachronic analysis of Snorri’s account of the unification of Norway, partly supplementing and partly revising the argument put forward in my book Society and Politics in Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla (Berkeley 1991).
Sverre Bagge
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John Chrysostom’s Discourse on Property Ownership: An Analysis from the Perspective of Roman Law

open access: yesVox Patrum, 2022
Unlike the dominant but simplified view of previous scholarship that Chrysostom stands in opposition to Roman property law, his attitude towards Roman law concerning property ownership is quite complicated.
Chen Yingxue
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(Un)faithful Subjects of (Un)faithful Rulers

open access: yesHistorical Studies on Central Europe, 2021
This article focuses on the role loyalty played in the relationship between rulers and their subjects in the earliest Central European chronicles, written at the beginning of the twelfth century: Gesta principum Polonorum by Gallus Anonymous, Chronica ...
Michał Machalski
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The Historiography of Medieval Monasticism: Perspectives from Northern Europe

open access: yesReligions, 2021
The article provides a thematized discussion of the development of the historiography of European monasticism in northern Europe (north Atlantic, North Sea to the Baltic).
Emilia Jamroziak
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A Guide to the Classification of Medieval Ceramic Forms

open access: yes, 2020
'A Guide to the Classification of Medieval Ceramic Forms' (Medieval Pottery Research Group Occasional Paper 1) was published in 1998 with grant funding from English Heritage.
Medieval Pottery Research Group
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Origin, evolution and biogeographic dynamics of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Southwestern Europe

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
wiley   +1 more source

The Ritual of the Names: A Practice of Intercession in Early Medieval Gaul

open access: yes, 2017
The recitation of the names of those belonging to the liturgical community of Mass is one of the elements typical of the liturgy in Merovingian Gaul as distinguished from contemporary (Roman) and later (Carolingian) traditions. In recent scholarship, the
Rose, H.G.E.   +2 more
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