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Theatrum Historiae, 2019 The paper aims to highlight the principal topics of Giovanni Botero’s speech Dell’uffizio del cardinale (1599), the first part of it being dedicated to show what cardinals could do to improve Catholicism in the Reformation world, and the second ...
Blythe Alice Raviola
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The kingdom of Portugal, homage and papal 'fiefdom' in the second half of the twelfth Century [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines the relationship between the newly formed kingdom of Portugal and the papacy in the second half of the twelfth century. The kings of Portugal sought a close alliance with the papacy and their relationship has been seen as that of ...
Wiedemann, BGE
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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L’image de la papauté dans l’Histoire ecclésiastique de Socrate
Vox Patrum, 2006 Obraz papiestwa lansowany przez Sokratesa jest dość skomplikowany. Z jednej strony kreuje on wizerunek wyjątkowego biskupstwa, którego zwierzchnik przewodzi Kościołowi powszechnemu. Z drugiej poddaje je ostrej krytyce.
Sławomir Bralewski
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome
Early 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
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Hlavní stereotypy v korespondenci pražského nuncia Caetaniho z let 1608–1609 a jejich proměny
Studia Historica Brunensia, 2013 Stereotypical images are also present in the correspondence of the papal nuncio in Prague Antonio Caetani from the years 1608–1609. It is especially the image of the religious devout Emperor and of the dangerous Protestants.
Tomáš Černušák
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Papist as heretic : the burning of John Forest, 1538 [PDF]
, 1998 This article examines the circumstances surrounding the condemnation and burning for heresy of the Observant Franciscan John Forest in 1538. Forest's principal 'heresy' was his adherence to the papacy, making him the only Englishman to be burnt for this ...
Marshall, Peter
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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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Sound ideas and absurd consequences: reflections of a legal historian [PDF]
, 2011 During the 60 years that I have been writing - and speculating - on public law (my first book on medieval criminal law came out in 1954), I have been repeatedly struck by a particular phenomenon to which I would now like to draw attention: that sound ...
van Caenegem, Raoul
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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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