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Constructing clandestine communities: oaths of collective secrecy and conceptual boundaries in the late antique Mediterranean

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 171-193, May 2023., 2023
This article explores fourth‐ to seventh‐century narratives about oaths of collective secrecy, which our sources typically frame negatively. By examining the terminology used in reference to these promises, the dynamics inherent in the practice and its relationship to oath‐taking customs in other contexts, and the influence of Christianity on the ...
Michael Wuk
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Re‐examining Hrabanus Maurus’ letter on incest and magic

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 252-273, May 2023., 2023
This article offers a reanalysis of Hrabanus’ mid‐ninth‐century text De magicis artibus. Often read and studied as a complete work, the De magicis artibus is in fact one portion of a longer text that also discusses incest and marriage practices. Furthermore, the single surviving copy of the text is deliberately attached to another work by Hrabanus, his
Matthew B. Edholm
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Equity before ‘Equity’

The Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 1, Page 85-121, January 2023., 2023
The notion of ‘equity’ is undergoing conceptual repositioning in international law today, embracing individuals as well as states and gaining an association with human rights and the politics of protest. In the context of these developments, the present paper enquires into the premodern roots of this ancient and rich term through three historical ...
Stephen Humphreys
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De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 137-160, May 2021., 2021
This article explores the use of civic discourse in Gildas’ De Excidio Britonum. It argues that such language and imagery functioned within a larger dialectical argument that exhorted readers to choose virtue over vice. Gildas assigned the Britons collective moral agency by styling them citizens (cives) of a shared homeland (patria) defined by cities ...
Robert Flierman, Megan Welton
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Die Lateinische Dompfarrei in Luck 1815 nach dem Status animarum parochiae Luceoriensis. Die Diözesangeistlichkeit und das Territorium der Pfarrei [PDF]

, 1997
-Im Zentrum für Kirchliche Bibliotheken, Archive und Museen an der Katholischen Universität Lublin befindet sich u.a. auch ein Manuskript aus dem 19. Jahr-hundert mit dem Titel: Status animarum parochiae Luceoriensis. Das Buch umfaßt die Jahre 1815-1819.
Tylus, Stanisław
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Challenging the Status Quo: Disability in Australian Children's Picture Books [PDF]

This article will analyze a range of Australian picture books that both explore the topic of disability and serve as educational tools for exploring diversity issues.
Chamlin, Tracey, Baguley, Margaret, Zerafa-Payne, Emerson, Glasby, Karen, Kerby, Martin, Tualaulelei, Eseta, Bedford, Alison   +6 more
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Burtscher Books Advertisement Flyer [PDF]

, 2022
This color document features a salmon colored paper with printed text. This flier advertises a large selection of books, as well as affordable prices direct form the store rather than publisher.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/buildings/1029/thumbnail ...
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Burtscher Books Directions Flyer [PDF]

, 2022
This color document features a pale yellow paper with printed text and an illustration. This flyer advertises Burtscher Books with an illustration of a map on how to get to the bookstore from campus.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/buildings/1030/thumbnail ...
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Bishop Torhthelm’s letter to Boniface

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 244-273, May 2025.
In c.738, St Boniface distributed a circular letter to a broad audience of ecclesiastics in England. One response to that letter survives, written by Torhthelm, bishop of the Middle Angles (737–64). The letter is written in an allusive style and borrows heavily from its main source, Pope Vitalian’s letter to Oswiu, king of Northumbria.
Peter Darby
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The Good Death in Early Modern Europe

History Compass, Volume 22, Issue 8, August 2024.
ABSTRACT The inevitability of death does not change its variability. In The Hour of Our Death (1981), Philippe Ariès positioned the sudden, unexpected, mass death of epidemics (especially from the Black Death) against the personalized, domesticated death for which one had time to prepare. The domesticated death, so he argued, appeared during a specific
Cynthia Klestinec, Gideon Manning
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