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Vergil in the Middle Ages

, 2021
Introduction Jan M. Ziolkowski Author's Preface to the First Edition PART I THE VERGIL OF LITERARY TRADITION CHAPTER I.--Importance for Vergil's reputation of the Aeneid. Predilection of the Romans for Epic Poetry.
D. Comparetti
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Beekeeping from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages.

Annual Review of Entomology, 2017
Beekeeping had its origins in honey hunting-the opportunistic stealing of honey from wild honey bee nests. True beekeeping began when humans started providing artificial cavities within which the bees could build comb for the queen to lay her eggs and ...
G. Kritsky
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Rhetoric and Vernacular Translation in the Middle Ages

, 2018
Tis anicle examines the historical and theomical ftamewotk of vernacular translation in the Middle Ages. 1 My concern here is to make visible not so much the pragmatics of particular translations as the histor­ ical conditions and the structures of ...
Rita Copeland
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The Middle Ages

2018
The main economic activity throughout the Jewish Middle Ages was local and regional. Jewish mercantile activities were regulated by halakha and by the laws of their ambient societies, as well as by an interplay of the two, and many contemporary scholars postulate that Christian or Islamic economic law superseded Jewish law in most areas.
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Having her hand in it? Elite women as ‘makers’ of textile art in the Middle Ages

, 2016
In the Middle Ages, elite women acted as creators, donors and recipients of textile art. This article analyses a small but representative group of seventh- to thirteenth-century embroideries in order to examine the motivation for their creation and to ...
A. Gajewski, Stefanie Seeberg
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The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages

, 2016
This book presents the first full-length study in English of monumental bronzes in the Middle Ages. Taking as its point of departure the common medieval reception of bronze sculpture as living or animated, the study closely analyzes the practice of lost ...
Ittai Weinryb
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Performing Virginity And Testing Chastity In The Middle Ages

, 2016
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A. Vogler
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A Companion to Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond

, 2015
The Observant Movement was a widespread effort to reform religious life across Europe. It took root around 1400, and for a century and more thereafter it inspired or shaped much that became central to European religion and culture.
J. Mixson, B. Roest
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Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages

, 2015
During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled "sodomitical" or evoked the use of ambiguous phrases such as the "unmentionable vice" or the "sin against nature." How, though, did these categories enter the field of ...
R. Mills
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Transvestites in the Middle Ages

American Journal of Sociology, 1974
Transvestism, which is usually defined in terms of psychopathology, must also be examined in terms of status gain and loss. This appears most obvious in an examination of the lives of the transvestite saints whose legends and myths help set Western attitudes toward transvestism.
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