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‘That Profession and Habit that None Other Be of Within this Realm’: The Battel Hall Retable, Visual Culture and Intersections of Community Identity in a Late Medieval English Convent

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 30-53, January 2026.
Abstract The Battel Hall Retable – created around the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century and once belonging to the Dominican nuns of Dartford Priory – offers a rare glimpse into the visual lives of late medieval English nuns, inviting an insight into the intersections of communal identities for these women religious.
ELIZABETH GOODWIN
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
wiley   +1 more source

Situating Pārśva’s Biography in Varanasi

open access: yesReligions, 2020
This study shows how Varanasi, a site that many people understand to be a sacred Hindu city, has been made “Jain” through its association with the lives of four of the twenty-four enlightened founders of Jainism, the jinas or tīrthaṅkaras. It
Ellen Gough
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Polyonymity in Monasticism. Review of the book: Uspenskij, B. A., & Uspenskij, F. B. (2017). Inocheskiie imena na Rusi [Monastic Names in Medieval Russia]. Moscow; St Petersburg: Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Nestor History. 344 p. [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2019
The reviewed book focuses on a particular category of Russian anthroponymy — the names of monastics of all degrees, that is, rassophore, little schema, and great schema.
Sergey O. Goryaev
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Images of Priesthood and Monasticism in the Works of John Chrysostom: Rhetoric and Historical Reality

open access: yesНаукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2023
The article provides a comparative analysis of the attitude to priests and monks, the manifestations of which can be found in the works of the outstanding thinker and theologian, representative of patristics, John Chrysostom (347–407 A. D.).
Yuliia Rozumna
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Learning from Jesus’ Wife: What Does Forgery Have to Do with the Digital Humanities? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
McGrath’s chapter on the so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife sets aside as settled the question of the papyrus’ authenticity, and explores instead what we can learn about the Digital Humanities and scholarly interaction in a digital era from the way the ...
McGrath, James F
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The rulership of Pippin I of Aquitaine

open access: yesEarly 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Christianisation of the Mediterranean Tarraconense during the Roman period (from the first century AD to 409)

open access: yesCatalan Historical Review, 2023
By the second half of the third century, Christianity had taken root in the coastal cities of the eastern Tarraconense, especially among common folk, as shown by the Passio Fructuosi and the archaeological finds in Tarraco, Barcino and Gerunda.
Albert Viciano i Vives
doaj  

Modern hospitality : medieval foundations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper reports on continuing doctoral research and specifically focuses on the development and regulation of hospitality in the Western European monasteries, from the beginning of the Middle Ages through to the Renaissance.
O'Gorman, Kevin D
core  

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