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Moral restraints on wealth accumulation on papal estates in the long sixth century: revisiting Pope Gregory’s policies on alienating and ceding church property

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 50-70, February 2025.
Alienation of church property was in most cases forbidden under both imperial and ecclesiastical legislation. Nevertheless, between 592 and 599 Pope Gregory the Great dealt with ten cases in which property was either relinquished by churches or in which he deliberated whether to compel churches to relinquish property. His justification for disposing of
Roy Flechner
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 474-502, November 2024.
This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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All the News That Is Fit to Steal: Charles Gildon, Ferrante Pallavicino, and the Geopolitics of Rifled Mailbag Fiction

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 31-44, March 2024.
Abstract Charles Gildon (1665–1724) is known today as the ultimate hack writer of Restoration England. Nonetheless, his two fiction collections in the ‘rifled mailbag’ genre — The Post‐Boy Rob'd of His Mail (1692) and The Post‐Man Robb'd of His Mail (1719) — contain insights concerning the structures and practices of information gathering in early ...
Thomas O. Beebee
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O perspectivă asupra lexicului comun latinei clasice și latinei vulgare [PDF]

open access: yesDiacronia, 2018
Articolul are ca punct de plecare perspectiva diferită a latiniștilor și a romaniștilor asupra conceptului de ‘latină vulgară’, concretizată în polemica amicală dintre Pierre Flobert și Eugeniu Coșeriu.
George Bogdan Țâra
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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 57-81, February 2024.
The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
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The Morosophistic Discourse of Ancient Prose Fiction

open access: yesJournal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, 2019
This essay explores a set of connections between philosophy and prose fiction. It combines a somewhat Foucauldian outlook on the question of genealogical filiation with a Bakhtinian interest in polyphony and heteroglossia. This is an overview of the
Erik Gunderson
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Los personajes en el Satiricón de Petronio. Características físicas y personalidad. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
El estudio de los personajes en el Satiricón de Petronio lo hemos llevado a cabo teniendo en cuenta dos aspectos: el aspecto físico y la personalidad.
Bermúdez Ramiro, Jesús
core  

De l’onirisme à l’ironie : les prestiges de la nuit dans l’Euphormion de Jean Barclay (1605)

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2016
Published in 1605 by the Franco-Scottish author John Barclay, the first part of Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon abounds in night scenes, where the eponymous character is confronted with a series of ambiguous phenomena (will-o’-the-wisps, ghosts, dreams) –
Nicolas Correard
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