Results 31 to 40 of about 126,954,571 (223)

The capture of the Marienwerder Castle, or where the Teutonic Order’s expansion to the East was stopped

Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2017
The capture of the Marienwerder Castle, or where the Teutonic Order’s expansion to the East was stopped This paper analyzes the construction, features, and significance of the Marienwerder castle, and its capture by Lithuanian forces in 1384.
Vytenis Almonaitis
doaj   +1 more source

The Tatar Topic in the Correspondence of Officials of the Teutonic Order, 1431–1432

Золотоордынское обозрение, 2020
Research objectives: This article offers annotated editions of nine letters from the archive of the grand masters of the Teutonic Order written between the spring of 1431 and the summer of 1432 concerning the Tatars.
Polekhov S.V., Naumov N.N.
doaj   +1 more source

Demystifying Non‐Western Administrative Traditions: An Empirical Comparison of Administrative Systems in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
wiley   +1 more source

West Mazowsze before the Teutonic Order in years 1381-1411 [PDF]

, 1994
Wydanie publikacji dofinansowane przez Komitet Badań NaukowychThe author presents in this article mutual connections between West Mazowsze and the Teutonic Order in years 1381-1411.
Palczewski, Marek
core   +1 more source

Ministerial Advisers in Personal Patronage Settings: Evidence From Israel

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The characteristics of ministerial advisers are predicted to correspond to the type of politicization setting in which they operate. The only systematic framework mapping these correspondences was developed predominantly in party‐driven patronage contexts.
Zehavit Levitats
wiley   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
wiley   +1 more source

Relations of the archbishop of Gniezno Jarosław Borogia of Skotniki with the Teutonic Order in Prussia [PDF]

, 2019
The paper concerns the relations between the archbishop of Gniezno Jarosław Borogia of Skotniki with the Teutonic Order in Prussia in the years 1342–1374.
Włodarski, Łukasz
core   +2 more sources

Morality Tale or Attempt at Reportage? Yet Another Look at Peter von Dusburg’s Description of the Prussian Pagan Religion

Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2023
The story by the Teutonic Order chronicler Peter von Dusburg about the Prussian pagan priest Criwe and his sanctuary Romowe has for centuries provoked historiographical arguments about the nature of the Baltic pagan religion and the interpretation of ...
Rasa Mažeika
doaj   +1 more source

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source