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Qualifying Mediterranean connectivity: Byzantium and the Franks during the seventh century
In the last two decades, historians researching the seventh century ce have increasingly emphasized mobility, communications and connectivity across the Mediterranean world that supposedly included close contacts between the Franks and Byzantium. These studies, however, rely often on optimistic, maximum interpretations of the comparatively sparse ...
Mischa Meier, Steffen Patzold
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This paper aims to shed light on the mobility of people and relics in the seventh century. It will show that Emperor Heraclius strategically designed his movements and those of his household, citizens, and officials, as well as those of relics within and beyond the borders of Byzantium, in order to consolidate the empire and his position in it.
Paraskevi Sykopetritou
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Zusammenfassung Die Syphilis ist eine heilbare systemische Infektionserkrankung, die in den vergangenen Jahren mit deutlich steigender Inzidenz diagnostiziert wird. Die Erkrankung weist eine große klinische Bandbreite auf und stellt aufgrund der langen Inkubationszeit und der teilweise komplexen Interpretation der serologischen Untersuchungsergebnisse ...
Birgit Sadoghi, Georg Stary, Peter Wolf
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The oasis of al‐‘Ulā is subject to a vast development operation by the central government of the Saudi monarchy. Agriculture is not strictly speaking the first objective of this initiative, the emphasis being on tourism and thus on the vast historical heritage and landscape qualities of the region.
Muriel Gros‐Balthazard +10 more
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Transnational Solidarities and Competing Visions of Europe: Vienna's Vote on the Russo‐Japanese War
Abstract The 1904–05 Russo‐Japanese War is commonly described as a clash between a European power (Russia) and an Asian one (Japan). This binary framing is problematic, however, as ideas of Europeanness and Asianness were hotly contested during the war.
ULRICH BRANDENBURG
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UNINTENTIONAL MONUMENTS, OR THE MATERIALIZING OF AN OPEN PAST
ABSTRACT This article examines the emergence of a new epistemic value that was attributed to remnants of the past during the broad debate on historical evidence in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the unintentionality of the testimony.
LISA REGAZZONI
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The evidence of hearsay in criminal proceedings from Late Renaissance France
Abstract This article argues that Renaissance legal culture provided a robust means of evaluating the epistemological status of rumour, informed by the Roman law of proof. In order to do so, the article explores the meaning of hearsay evidence in criminal proceedings from late Renaissance France, focusing on a major series of interrogations for ...
Tom Hamilton
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‘Our Masters the Commons Begin Now to Roar’: Parliament in Scribal Verse, 1621–81*
Abstract Scribal verse was an important source of news and comment about parliament in 17th‐century Britain, especially in the 1620s and 1660s–80s. Unlike other forms of scribal news, poems that circulated in manuscript did not report on parliamentary proceedings as such, but either summarised parliamentary news or provided comment on parliament's ...
Edward Taylor
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Abstract Historical sociologists have questioned the idea that nationalism and imperialism are mutually exclusive phenomena. In contrast to traditional historiography that depicted empires as ‘the prison houses of nations’ contemporary scholarship emphasises the structural and ideological ambiguities that characterised the 19th century European ...
Siniša Malešević
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Review of Jean Pierre Dedieu, Après le roi: essai sur l'effondrement de la Monarchie Espagnole, Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, 2010 [PDF]
Compte rendu, paru dans la revue "Storicamente", 9, 2013[à paraître en 2012] Recensione di Jean Pierre Dedieu, Après le roi: essai sur l'effondrement de la Monarchie Espagnole, Madrid, Casa de Velázquez ...
Santarelli, Daniele
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