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The Muslims of medieval Italy [Book Review] [PDF]
, 2012 This article reviews the book 'The Muslims of medieval Italy', by Alex ...
Drury, Abdullah
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 808-829, September 2025.In this article, I delve into the field diary of Ma Changshou – a major Chinese ethnohistorian and social anthropologist active between the 1930s and 1960s – to show how his journeys through Liangshan, a mountainous land in Southwest China inhabited by the Nuosu‐Yi, led to a new kind of anthropological knowledge.
Jan Karlach
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Simulating urban evolution by H-GIS and H-BIM: a temporal and spatial study of Pingjiang map
Heritage ScienceHistorical 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.
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The genealogy of the king of Scots as charter and panegyric [PDF]
, 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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Compassed about with so great a cloud: the witnesses of Scottish episcopal acta before ca 1250 [PDF]
, 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
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Greek Poetry in a Multicultural Society: Sicily and Salento in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Medieval EncountersIn the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, southern Italy experienced a period of relative political stability and economic prosperity under the Normans as well as the Hohenstaufen dynasty that succeeded them. These cultural conditions fostered a cultural
Krystina Kubina, Nikos Zagklas
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 550-570, September 2025.Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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Attitudes to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postnatal Complications in Medieval English Miracula
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 543-560, July 2025.Abstract This article re‐examines the evidence about childbirth and related topics in the posthumous miracle collections of English saints. It finds forty‐eight such miracles in collections of thirteen English saints, mostly from the century or so after 1170. The article argues that the context in which the stories were composed is vitally important to
Ben Nilson, Ruth Frost
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Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2021 Theatrical writing is remarkably concerned with rewriting strategies. In the eighteenth century, due to the deepening exchanges between Europe and the rest of the world, French literature was influenced by various external factors, such as The Orphan of ...
Guo Tang
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POMMERN UND POMMERELLEN IN DER ZEIT SWANTOPOLKS VON DANZIG (BIS 1266)
Studia Maritima, 2019 In the 13th century, Pomerania was divided between two princely houses. The western part of the region was ruled by princes from the Griffin dynasty. In the most recent source litera- ture, a claim has been made that members of this house also ruled the ...
Marek Smoliński
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