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The Christian Nobles at the Court of Great Khan, as Described in Mediaeval European Sources [PDF]

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение, 2017
Research objectives: “Moreover, the chief princes of his whole empire, more than thirty thousand in number, who are called Alans, and govern the whole Orient, are Christians either in fact or in name, calling themselves the Pope’s slaves, and ready to ...
Vladimír Liščák
doaj   +1 more source

Mujeres Públicas and women in public: Scrutinising the history of prostitution in eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century Mexico

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 86-101, March 2026.
Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2009
Even though interdisciplinary approaches to the study of humanity are increasingly a preferred method of study, it is still easy for scholars to isolate themselves within their field and lose touch with developments in the rest of the academy. Therefore,
Katherine Bullock
doaj   +1 more source

The genealogy of the king of Scots as charter and panegyric [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
When we think of genealogies in medieval Scotland our minds might turn at once to Gaelic, the Celtic language that was spoken in the Middle Ages from the southern tip of Ireland to the northernmost coast of Scotland. This is not unnatural.
Broun, Dauvit
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The Miracle of the Harvest. The Cistercians, French Connections and the Hegwald Workshop on Gotland

open access: yesICO Iconographisk Post, 2020
This article examines the representation of the Miracle of the Harvest, a rare pictorial motif on thirteenth century works, which was carved on four baptismal fonts by the Hegwald workshop operating on Gotland.
Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens
doaj  

Flower symbolism and the cult of relics in medieval Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesZograf, 2008
The Life of archbishop Eustathios I [Jevstatije] (1279-1286), deserving head of the medieval Serbian Church and a saint, is a very interesting source for studying the cult of relics with the Serbs.
Popović Danica
doaj   +1 more source

Compassed about with so great a cloud: the witnesses of Scottish episcopal acta before ca 1250 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article is the result of examining the witnesses to some 600 episcopal acta. Despite the unequal incidence of survival from one diocese to another and the difficulty of identifying those men who had no surname, it is possible to draw some ...
Bateson, Cosmo Innes, Norman F. Shead
core   +1 more source

IMPLICIT COMPARISONS: VISUALITY AND THE INTERLINEAR MANUSCRIPT PAGE

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 145-173, December 2025.
ABSTRACT A central question for European philology, informed by various agendas and ideologies, concerned comparison and the positing of hierarchies among languages. With this “traditional” question of philology in mind, but hoping to think in less traditional ways, this article asks how comparative understandings of Arabic and local languages of the ...
RONIT RICCI
wiley   +1 more source

Simulating urban evolution by H-GIS and H-BIM: a temporal and spatial study of Pingjiang map

open access: yesHeritage Science
Historical maps provide insights into the morphology, cultural, and political shifts of ancient societies. Pingjiang Map is one of the earliest comprehensive ancient Chinese maps, depicting the heritage water city of Suzhou.
Pania Yanjie Mu   +2 more
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Teutonic State Order’s Cultural Heritage in Towns of Warmia-Masuria Province in Poland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The area of contemporary Warmia-Masuria Province encompasses the major part of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, founded in the Middle Ages on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea.
Musiaka, Łukasz
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