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2023
From the nineteenth century onwards, historians described the Middle Ages as the 'cradle' of the nation state-then, after World War II, they increasingly identified the period as the 'cradle' of Europe. A close look at the sources demonstrates that both interpretations are misleading: while 'Europe' was not a rare word, its use simply does not follow ...
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From the nineteenth century onwards, historians described the Middle Ages as the 'cradle' of the nation state-then, after World War II, they increasingly identified the period as the 'cradle' of Europe. A close look at the sources demonstrates that both interpretations are misleading: while 'Europe' was not a rare word, its use simply does not follow ...
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2023
Abstract This chapter describes the elements of the medieval canon law that the author describes as “half steps” toward constitutionalism. The latter term is understood in two ways. It means both the recognition of a superior law that limits the exercise of governmental power and a mandatory division of the legitimate power that does ...
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Abstract This chapter describes the elements of the medieval canon law that the author describes as “half steps” toward constitutionalism. The latter term is understood in two ways. It means both the recognition of a superior law that limits the exercise of governmental power and a mandatory division of the legitimate power that does ...
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Western Political Quarterly, 1949
D URING the First World War it was usual for the Allies to represent their cause as that of democracy, which was defined as the free and spontaneous movement of the human spirit, unfettered by logic. Germany, on the other hand, stood for machine-like regularity and cold, calculating rationality.
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D URING the First World War it was usual for the Allies to represent their cause as that of democracy, which was defined as the free and spontaneous movement of the human spirit, unfettered by logic. Germany, on the other hand, stood for machine-like regularity and cold, calculating rationality.
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The Lancet, 2004
Of the various clinical errors I made, one in particular continues to trouble me, and although I have discussed it on many occasions with colleagues and students, I am glad to have the opportunity to admit to it so publicly. It concerns a middle-aged man, a family acquaintance, who came to me complaining of an altered bowel habit he had been suffering ...
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Of the various clinical errors I made, one in particular continues to trouble me, and although I have discussed it on many occasions with colleagues and students, I am glad to have the opportunity to admit to it so publicly. It concerns a middle-aged man, a family acquaintance, who came to me complaining of an altered bowel habit he had been suffering ...
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BMJ, 2014
The greatest joy of youth is the lack of insight. We think we know everything because we have so little life experience we don’t know any better. But life experience isn’t optional. We age, uncertainty replaces certainty, confidence is replaced by insecurity, invincibility is replaced by vulnerability, and what was once important is now unimportant. We
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The greatest joy of youth is the lack of insight. We think we know everything because we have so little life experience we don’t know any better. But life experience isn’t optional. We age, uncertainty replaces certainty, confidence is replaced by insecurity, invincibility is replaced by vulnerability, and what was once important is now unimportant. We
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NUBIAN FORTIFICATIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis / Dutch Review of Church History, 1996
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1992
Abstract To the Middle Ages as a whole as well as to the Renaissance, Rome was the image of a common and glorious if sometimes disturbing past. This chapter will attempt to describe that image as it existed in the West before Petrarch’s reinterpretation of it.
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Abstract To the Middle Ages as a whole as well as to the Renaissance, Rome was the image of a common and glorious if sometimes disturbing past. This chapter will attempt to describe that image as it existed in the West before Petrarch’s reinterpretation of it.
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2017
In the middle ages (550-1510 CE) scientific knowledge was consolidated and translated, first from Greek and Latin into Arabic and Syriac and then from Arabic and Greek into Latin. Alhazen (1020 CE) was an important Arabic speaking scholar who made important contributions to a theory of vision and of refraction.
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In the middle ages (550-1510 CE) scientific knowledge was consolidated and translated, first from Greek and Latin into Arabic and Syriac and then from Arabic and Greek into Latin. Alhazen (1020 CE) was an important Arabic speaking scholar who made important contributions to a theory of vision and of refraction.
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