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Types of maces in the culture of Early Medieval Prussians

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2019
There are two known versions of maces in the culture of early medieval Prussians: staffs and krivula (crooked staffs). The data presented in this article has allowed the author to draw the following preliminary conclusions about the use of various forms ...
Kulakov V.I.
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O vozmozhnostjah ispol'zovanija istoricheskogo opyta tehnologij povyshenija plodorodija pochv v Vostochnoj Prussii v sel'skohozjajstvennom predprinimatel'stve Kaliningradskoj oblasti [On the possibility to adopt the historical practice of applying technologies for land fertility increase in Eastern Prussia at agricultural enterprises of the Kaliningrad region] [PDF]

open access: yesБалтийский регион, 2012
This article considers the features of East Prussian land use system, whose crucial component was technologies for land fertility increase. A special package of measures in the framework of melioration and irrigation activities accounted for the high ...
Levina Roza, Voloshenko Ksenya
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Bavarian geographer's Prissani and (Old) Prussians

open access: yesLietuvių Kalba, 2017
It is a widespread opinion in literature that the ethnonym Prussians is first encountered as the form Bruzi in a short Latin manuscript headed Descriptio civitatum et regionum ad septentrionalem plagam Danubii.
Diego Ardoino
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‘Power to the Family.’ The Military Obligations of Old Prussians in Warmia in the Context of their Family Ties (13th and 14th Centuries)

open access: yesActa Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2018
The article deals with the main types of social and military relations between the indigenous people and the new landlords that formed in the times of building and reinforcing the rule of the Teutonic Order in Warmia, a part of Prussia.
Alicja Dobrosielska
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PRUSSIAN PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT

open access: yesВестник Брянского государственного университета
The evidence of archaeological and visual sources presented in the article testifies that, apart from shields, the Aestii and their descendants, the Prussians did not use any other defensive equipment either in Roman times or at the dawn of the Middle ...
Kulakov V. I.
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PAGANISM OF LITHUANIANS AND PRUSSIANS: RITUAL LAUGHTER

open access: yesВісник Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. Літературознавство. Мовознавство. Фольклористика, 2021
Ritual laughter is considered an integral part of the rituals used to make sacrifice to the ancient gods. This article analyzes instances of ritual humor in written sources from the 16th to 17th century and echoes of the joke in calendars, family ...
Rimantas Balsys
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Morality Tale or Attempt at Reportage? Yet Another Look at Peter von Dusburg’s Description of the Prussian Pagan Religion

open access: yesActa Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2023
The story by the Teutonic Order chronicler Peter von Dusburg about the Prussian pagan priest Criwe and his sanctuary Romowe has for centuries provoked historiographical arguments about the nature of the Baltic pagan religion and the interpretation of ...
Rasa Mažeika
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In subsidium: the declining contribution of Germany and Eastern Europe to the Crusades to the Holy Land, 1221-91 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
"Though for a short time the Lord had forsaken it [the Holy Land], with great mercy he gathered together his children and restored the whole land's people from men of different races and diverse languages and nations, so that therein the prophecy seemed ...
Morton, N
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Evidence of Iron Accumulation in Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy: A Potential Novel Disease Mechanism

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this first application of Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping Source Separation to cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy, we uncovered alterations in iron and myelin within lesions and normal appearing white matter. As validation, we demonstrate abnormal iron accumulation in those same compartments within primary brain tissue.
Christina L. Nemeth   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knyga kaip kultūrų konflikto taškas: šv. Adalberto misija Prūsuose | Book as the point of the conflict of cultures: the mission of St. Adalbert in Prussia [PDF]

open access: yesLiteratūra (Vilnius), 2006
The first Prussians’ encounter with Christianity ended in the martyrdom of the missionary St. Adalbert; it took place on the 23rd of April, 997. What provoked his martyrdom is far from clear to this day.
Vytautas Ališauskas
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