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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 2004 Rezensiertes Werk:Gillian R. Evans, Law and Theology in theMiddle Ages, London, New York: Routledge 2002, VIII, 259 S., ISBN 0-415-2532 ...
Susanne Lepsius
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 323-352, May 2026.This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
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Attention, Perceptual Content, and Mirrors: Two Medieval Models of Active Perception in Peter Olivi and Peter Auriol [PDF]
, 2017 In the paper I argue that medieval philosophers proposed several notions of the senses’ activity in perception. I illustrate the point using the example of two Franciscan thinkers – Peter Olivi (ca. 1248–1298) and Peter Auriol (ca.
Lička, Lukáš
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JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 328-337, March 2026.Zusammenfassung Hintergrund und Zielsetzung Haarausfallerkrankungen beeinträchtigen die Lebensqualität weit über rein kosmetische Aspekte hinaus. Frühere Untersuchungen berichten meist von milder bis moderater Beeinträchtigung. Ziel dieser Studie war es, das Ausmaß der Lebensqualitätsbeeinträchtigung bei Patienten mit Haarausfall zu erfassen, dabei ...
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Review of Andreas Kappeler. Ungleiche Brüder: Russen und Ukrainer vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart.
East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2020 Review of Andreas Kappeler. Ungleiche Brüder: Russen und Ukrainer vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart [Unequal Brothers: Russians and Ukrainians from the Middle Ages to the Present]. Verlag C. H. Beck, 2017. 272 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography.
Thomas M. Prymak
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The date and context of the Astronomer's Life of Louis the Pious
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 70-100, February 2026.The Astronomer's Life of the emperor Louis the Pious (814–40) is a canonical source for scholars of Frankish history. It sits at the centre of recent debates about the nature and tone of Carolingian political discourse, and about the crisis of the empire in the 830s.
Simon MacLean
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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Politics, Investments and Public Spending in Bologna (End of 13th – First Half of 14th Century)
Jahrbuch für WirtschaftsgeschichteNot all major Italian cities of the late Middle Ages could rely on an established and organised system of public debt like Florence, Venice, Genoa, and others.
Conti Marco
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