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The Roman presbyters and la bella scrittura Filocaliana

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 101-133, February 2026.
The long‐standing collaboration between Bishop Damasus of Rome and Furius Dionysius Filocalus has prompted extensive scholarly research over the years, thereby forging a lasting and inseparable link between them. This article does not seek to undermine that bond; rather, it demonstrates – on the basis of surviving epigraphic evidence – that Filocalus ...
Julia Borczyńska
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Got alt hui. Some Considerations on the German Dialogue Between Massimiliano Sforza and Maximilian I in the Liber Iesus (Milan, Archivio Storico Civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. Triv. 2163)☆

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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Amateur justice in Carolingian Bavaria

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 497-521, November 2025.
This paper examines judges and judgement in Bavarian dispute charters from the first decades of the ninth century. It argues that justice in Carolingian Bavaria was an amateur affair, in which of primary importance was the ability to create a stable consensus around an outcome. Accordingly, distinctions between judges and other participants in judicial
Amos Bronner
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The rulership of Pippin I of Aquitaine

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 545-571, November 2025.
This article uses the reign of Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) as a case study for the historiographical concept of ‘sub‐rulership’ in Carolingian Francia. It unpicks how Pippin’s status varied over time, arguing that Pippin’s rulership represents well the tension between kingship as an office and as a dynastic status.
Eddie Meehan
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Looking beyond charters and contracts: child slavery in the narrative sources of the early Middle Ages

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.
This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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DER KOMPONIST ALS „VERBRECHER“. BÜLOW CONTRA NIETZSCHE – NIETZSCHE VERSUS WAGNER: EINE RETOURKUTSCHE MIT ADRESSATENWECHSEL?

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 432-455, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay develops new perspectives on Nietzsche's complex relationship with Richard Wagner by including an area of conflict that is important for the overall picture but has been overlooked in research to date: the profound insult to Nietzsche's ambitions as a composer caused by the harsh, almost scathing criticism of the musician Hans von ...
Barbara Neymeyr
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“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 338-358, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects’ appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the “monumentalists” are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy ...
Jakub Stejskal
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The Fashioning of the Humanist Governor at the Dawn of a New Political and Cultural Era: Francesco Barbaro as Podestà of Venetian Vicenza

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 473-492, September 2025.
Abstract The patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) is well known for having been both a first‐class humanist and a figurehead of the Venetian government in the new territories of the Stato da Terra. This article explores the pioneering use of humanist culture in the official praises he received during his political career, which helped shape a ...
Clémence Revest
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H. Schulze, Grundstrukturen der Verfassung im Mittelalter, Bde 1-2

Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne, 1988
Hans K. Schulze, Grundstrukturen der Verfassung im Mittelalter, W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Urban Taschenbücher nr. 371 i 372. Bd. I: Stammesverband, Gefolgschaft, Lehnswesen, Grundherrschaft, 1985, s. 162; Bd.
Stanisław Russocki
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Hungersnöte in Tirol und ihre Bedeutung in Tiroler Geschichtsdarstellungen

Historia.scribere, 2010
Die vorliegende Proseminararbeit beschäftigt sich mit den verschiedenen Ursachen und Auswirkungen der schwerwiegendsten Hungersnöte der Tiroler Geschichte vom Mittelalter bis ins 20.
Florian Baumgartner
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