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The Art of Single Combat in the Eastern Roman Empire
Nuova Antologia MilitareThough we do not usually associate the art of single combat with the Eastern Roman Empire, we know from the sources that Eastern Roman soldiers were well trained for single fight – indeed, a needed skill in any professional army – and that they often ...
Mattia Caprioli
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Relics, writing, and devotion in early medieval Chelles
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.The discovery in 1983 of a collection of relics with their medieval identificatory tags in the parish church of Chelles opened new avenues for research on devotional and writing practices in this Frankish royal foundation. This is the first systematic study of the corpus of relic labels that accompanied these sacred objects, particularly of the subset ...
Ana de Oliveira Dias
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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure
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Irina Dumitrescu
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History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
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Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an injustice to history. Consigning acknowledges that a historical injustice took place but denies that it has any ongoing relevance for the present ...
Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
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L’image qui tue : les armes décorées dans les collections princières allemandes au xvie siècle
Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2018 In the second half of the sixteenth century, European rulers, and in particular German princes, began collecting weapons and armour. These armouries were mainly composed of war trophies, but most of items were gifts from other courts or bought by the ...
Naïma Ghermani
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Morphological study of the supratrochlear foramen in Canis lupus ssp.
Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.The supratrochlear foramen (STF) is a common anatomical feature in the humeri of dogs and wolves. This study shows that the STF exhibits a consistent shape and position in dogs and wolves, suggesting a common morphological pattern; however, it was less frequent in smaller dog humeri, and its size correlated with humeral dimensions, suggesting that ...
Mariana Batista +9 more
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Growing together: Developmental integration and modularity in the human talus–calcaneus complex
Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.This study investigates morphological integration and trabecular bone development in the human talus–calcaneus complex during postnatal ontogeny. The two bones exhibit strong integration throughout development, with differing bone volume fraction trajectories presumably reflecting their distinct functional roles during bipedal gait acquisition ...
Carla Figus +4 more
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Palaces for a New Spain Nobility: Between Creole Identity and Academicism
Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 75-86, March 2025.ABSTRACT Mexico City and Havana had a significant number of noble palaces during the eighteenth century. Until now, the dearth of historical documentation on their construction has hampered any approximation, requiring other methodologies. Here, it is intended to establish how a new visual code was defined, consistent both with their local style and ...
Pedro Luengo
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