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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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Misterium Caritatis: Christian Values in the Polish School of the Law of Nations (Ius Gentium) [PDF]
The Polish medieval theory of the law of nations (ius gentium) was born in the nation’s conflict with the Order of Teutonic Knights, which pursued a bloody military expansion into Eastern Europe under the pretext of converting pagans, invoking the ...
Wanda Bajor
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Abstract Focusing on Southern Europe, this article sheds light on the mining landscape of the early Middle Ages. Based on the current state of historical and archaeological knowledge, the article raises a number of questions that can be extended to other European regions.
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse
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Lutheran Theology and Liturgical Acculturation [PDF]
(Excerpt) The Lutheran churches in the United States have historically reflected Teutonic and Scandinavian culture and heritage. This was a natural phenomenon due to the fact that the earliest Lutheran settlers in this country were of Teutonic and ...
Ward, Karen M
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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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Culture and E-Learning: Automatic Detection of a Users’ Culture from Survey Data [PDF]
Knowledge about the culture of a user is especially important for the design of e-learning applications. In the experiment reported here, questionnaire data was used to build machine learning models to automatically predict the culture of a user.
Kamentz, Elisabeth, Mandl, thomas
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Frequent Fixed Collocations in the “Livonian Rhymed Chronicle”: Structure and Variety
Introduction. The article considers the structure and variety of fixed collocations in the “Livonian Rhymed Chronicle”. Introduction explores historiographical researches on this source and states a lack of studies from historical poetics’ point of view ...
E. S. Tikhonova
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ABSTRACT Cremation became the dominant funerary practice in the Middle Danube Region during the Roman Period (RP) (1st–4th century) and reappeared in the Early Medieval Ages (EMA) (6th/7th–8th century). This study aims to reconstruct differences in cremation conditions from the Gbely‐Kojatín site (Slovakia, RP and EMA) and the Přítluky site (Czech ...
Katarína Hladíková +4 more
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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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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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