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POMMERN UND POMMERELLEN IN DER ZEIT SWANTOPOLKS VON DANZIG (BIS 1266)
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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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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Excavation continued on Kôm Rabî'a with further investigation of the Thirteenth Dynasty terraced building; by the end of the season ceramically earlier contexts, probably of the Twelfth Dynasty, had been reached.
Lisa L. Giddy, D. G. Jeffreys
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Writing history of Buddhist thought in the twentieth century: Yinshun (1906-2005) in the context of Chinese Buddhist historiography [PDF]
Venerable Yinshun 印 順 (1906–2005) was the eminent scholar-monk in twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism. This paper is about his historiographical practice and tries to outline his position in Chinese Buddhist historiography especially in reference to the ...
Bingenheimer, Marcus +1 more
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Views from the East: Changing Attitudes to Venice in Late Byzantium
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
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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The article explores the specificity of early medieval Hungarian Christianity, which lay in the existence of two metropolises in the Kingdom, i.e., Esztergom and Kalocsa, and the belief in the sanctity of the Árpád dynasty, expressed as early as in the ...
Grzesik, Ryszard
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A Short Survey of Yemeni Sufism from Its Inception up to the Thirteenth Century
This paper analyzes the historical conditions of Yemen’s Sufi movement from the beginning of Islam up to the rise of the Rasulid dynasty in the thirteenth century.
Muhammad Aziz
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Gender, Feeling and the Making of Korean Christian Knowledge in Sengoku Japan*
This essay explores the production of Korean Christian knowledge in Sengoku Japan by analysing narratives about a vision said to have been experienced by an evangelised Korean woman, which circulated within Jesuit correspondence from Japan and in subsequent publications.
Susan Broomhall
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The author has discussed the question of Byzantium’s particular interest to the strategically important Crimean region against the background of the seals of Byzantine emperors discovered in Byzantine Taurica.
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Alekseienko
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