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Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Although the section of the Baltic seashore near Palanga was ceded to Lithuania under the Treaty of Melno, it remained strategically important to the Teutonic Order. From the Middle Ages, the coastal strip of the starostwo of Žemaitija in the Grand Duchy
Dainius Elertas
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Architecture of Poland as the Heritage of the Past in the Present. Castles, palaces and mansions, historic cities [PDF]
The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist ...
Kaczmarek, Sylwia
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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Våld och Visioner. Möten med högre makter i Peter de Dusburgs Cronica Terre Prussie
The Cronica Terre Prussie by Peter de Dusburg (c. 1330) chronicles the expansion of the Teutonic Order into Prussia and the Baltic region. Predominantly occupied with armed conflict, the work also contains a considerable number of accounts of miracles ...
Magnus Borg
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Between the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and Burzenland in Medieval Hungary - The Teutonic Military Order status and rule in the poles of Christianity [PDF]
The 800th anniversary of the Teutonic Order's occupation of Burzenland (Barcaság) in the eastern part of the medieval Hungary (in the Brasov region in Transylvania - Romania) will be marked in 2011.
Lotan, Shlomo
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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William Urban. The Last Years of the Teutonic Knights: Lithuania, Poland and the Teutonic Order
William Urban. The Last Years of the Teutonic Knights: Lithuania, Poland and the Teutonic Order. London: Greenhill Books, 2018. xi + 324 pp. ISBN: 9781-78438-357-2. [review]
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Seals as a Reflection of the Self-Confidence, Self-Image and Identity of the Teutonic Order
This article deals with the question of the extent to which the Teutonic Order, as a clerical order of knights founded during the Third Crusade, succeeded in expressing its self-confidence and identity by means of its seal.
Katharina Kemmer
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