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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 195-230, May 2026.In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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To the question of the personality of Zhiroslav Nazhirovich who led the Kyiv troops to Mensk in 1159
Журнал Белорусского государственного университета: История, 2020 The article deals with the biography of the Kyiv voivode Zhiroslav Nazhirovich. The boyar is mentioned in the Kyiv Chronicle only once, in 1159, when he leaded the military unit of Torks that had been by the Kyiv prince Rostislav Mstislavich to Mensk to ...
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 323-352, May 2026.This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
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Semina, 2021 This work will present the development of the author's master's project, which aims to define and analyze the composition of the parish clergyman who worked in the parishes of Rio Grande, Rio Pardo and Santo Amaro between 1738 and 1807, using the ...
Rafaela Zanotto Casagrande
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A Certain Set of Skills? Pre‐Appointment Careers of Danish Ministerial Advisors
Governance, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Ministerial advisors are politically appointed civil servants who serve at the intersection of politics and public administration. Drawing on the Public Service Bargain (PSB) framework, this article argues that the competencies associated with ministerial advisors reflect a dynamic bargain shaped by broader transformations in the political ...
Harald Brønd
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Praetorian Prefects of Emperor Commodus
Klio, 2020 The article presents the history of ten praetorian prefects of Emperor Commodus. The prosopographical method used by the author of the article is extremely useful in the studies on individuals in the society of Imperium Romanum.
Karol Kłodziński
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Prosopography and seventeenth-century England
, 2021 I shall not waste the time of this conference by offering yet another definition of our subject. It is, however, desirable to remind ourselves that the compilation of short ’lives’, or indeed collective biographies, which can be traced back in western ...
Aylmer, Gerald E.
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Petitions and the Material Culture of Political Organisation*
Parliamentary History, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 16-32, February 2026.Abstract This article examines surviving manuscript petitions to reveal the material culture of political organisation. Conceptually, the article frames the material culture of petitions and the practices associated with petitioning as a technology that enabled political activity.
Henry Miller
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Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2021 Accounting for mechanisms underpinning knowledge production on contemporary Africa tends to oppose two views. On the one hand, the need to encourage the africanisation trend, of both researchers and epistemological frameworks used, in order to grasp the ...
Guillaume Beaud
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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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