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Melusine, Emblem of the Self: The Female Traveler and the Contours of Acceptable Difference
The German Quarterly, Volume 99, Issue 2, Page 131-142, Spring 2026.Abstract Though the foreign roots of Volksbücher such as Thüring von Ringoltingen's Melusine (1457) have long been recognized, these early modern German prose novels are still characterized as insular and folksy. Taking Melusine as an example, this article uses the framework of mobility to offer a new interpretation that posits the Volksbuch as an ...
Andrew C. Sternhagen Schwenk
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The power of the past: materializing collective memory at early medieval lordly centres
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 34-69, February 2026.The repurposing of earlier sites and monuments is an enduringly popular theme in early medieval archaeology, but in England it has attracted little interest among Late Saxon and early post‐Conquest studies. From the tenth century, however, an increasingly prevalent pattern is discernible of secular lords locating their power centres in relation to ...
Duncan W. Wright +7 more
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الإيضاح, 2012 Zahir-ud-Din Muhammad Babur founded the Mughla Dynasty in 933 Hijra (1526A.D). The golden period of this magnificent dynasty ended with the reign and death of sixth emperor Aurangzeb Alamgheer in 1119 Hijra (1707 A.D), then started a long period of chaos
ڈاکٹر فاروق حسن
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An Unpublished Old Kingdom False Door of the Priestess of Hathor Nub-Hotep [PDF]
أبيدوسThis paper examines the textual inscriptions and the depiction of an unpublished false door of a lady who served as a priestess of Hathor in the funerary temple of King Unis in Saqqara. She is called Nub-Hotep, and her beautiful name is Bby.
Ahmed Faraman
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An Examination of the Ethical Themes in Nafthat al-Masdur by Zaydari Nasawi [PDF]
تاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاریHistorians, narrators, and writers - who attached great importance to didactic literature, particularly ethics-have traditionally employed the art of thematic expression to convey their intended messages. Among these works, Nafthat al-Masdur by Shihab al-
Masomeh Safdari +2 more
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Borchardt’s cache as a source for Old Kingdom prosopography: First approach to unearthed non‑royal tombs in Abusir [PDF]
Pražské Egyptologické StudieDuring the excavation of the mastaba of Vizier Ptahshepses at Abusir in 1968, Zbyněk Žába, the then director of the Czechoslovak mission, found almost two thousand relief fragments in one of the rooms of the spacious tomb.
Veronika Dulíková
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Review of periodical literature for 2024: 400–1100
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 408-414, February 2026.
James Chetwood
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Unpublished Cuneiform Texts from Old Babylonian Period
مجلة الآداب, 2018 The cuneiform texts particularly the economic texts are considered as one of the most important documents that reflect the reality of everyday life, in fact among the periods of Mesopotamia the Old Babylonian Period (1595-2004 B.C) was characterized by ...
Hussein Mohammed Al-Hummeri
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ReligionsA unique episode in the transregional connections of Buddhism is illustrated through the figures of Ruan Ziyu (1079–1102) and Liang Cineng (1098–1116). Since at least the Song dynasty, Huineng (638–713), the Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism, has been a ...
Xing Zhang
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AS 106. A small mud brick mastaba from Abusir South [PDF]
Pražské Egyptologické StudieThe anonymous mastaba AS 106 was archaeologically investigated by the Czech Institute of Egyptology in 2018. Its architectural layout remained quite well preserved, although it had suffered from looting activities in the past.
Lucie Jirásková +3 more
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