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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 555-585, November 2021., 2021 In the early medieval west, patronate, as adapted from Roman law, was a fundamental category in determining the legal status of freedmen. In many cases it entailed a basic set of obligations. In an increasing number of situations, however, the patron became an ecclesiastical institution, since slaves and freed persons were often given to churches and ...
Stefan Esders
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The admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries: reaching behind the sources
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 586-611, November 2021., 2021 Religious institutions in early medieval Europe were both recipients of former slaves and instigators of manumissions. By drawing on recent work concerning the admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries, the present paper identifies dominant strands in the historiography from Marc Bloch to the present, which are then re‐evaluated in light
Roy Flechner, Janel Fontaine
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Western Connections of Northeast Africa: The Garnet Evidence from Late Antique Nubia, Sudan
Archaeometry, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 227-246, April 2021., 2021 Outstanding garnet beads were found recently in an elite tumulus dated to the fourth century AD and located at the cemetery of Hagar el‐Beida in the Upper Nubian Nile Valley region. Whereas contacts of Northeast Africa with South Asia have just been proven through analysis of glass beads found in Nubia and dating to the time of intensive Indian Ocean ...
J. Then‐Obłuska +3 more
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Pope Leo of Bourges, clerical immunity and the early medieval secular
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 86-108, February 2021., 2021 This article investigates the early medieval secular through the lens of clerical immunity – that is, the legal exemption of clerics from courts labelled as secular. It focusses on a short text, eventually attributed to Pope Leo, which was written in fifth‐century Gaul to define this immunity.
Charles West
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La enigmática figura de Suniefredo a la luz de sus emisiones monetales [PDF]
Revista Numismática Hécate, 2015 In this study we analyze the Suniefredo's role in the history of the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo. This analysis on one from two numisma coined by this king given that is the only reference we have of its existence as we have no mention of this character
José Ángel Castillo Lozano
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The role of Paupertas in shaping monastic identity of late antiquity (a case study of Visigothic Spain) [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной ЦерквиThe article utilizes Visigothic monastic rules (Regula Isidori, Regula Fructuosi, Regula Communis) to explore the multifaceted nature of paupertas. It argues against reducing paupertas to a single interpretation, as is often done in existing research ...
Mikhail Birkin
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Metaphors of this world in Visigothic monastic texts [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной ЦерквиThe article uses Visigothic sources and examines the principal metaphors and images employed in monastic and ascetic literature in order to characterise the world, namely the mundane sea and this age’s pageantry.
Mikhail Birkin
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Power and rural landscapes in early medieval Galicia (400-900 ad ): towards a re-incorporation of the archaeology into the historical narrative [PDF]
, 2013 This paper aims to bring together hitherto neglected archaeological data about the early medieval landscapes of Galicia (north-west Spain), in order to understand the social transformations this ‘peripheral’ region underwent between the fifth and the ...
Sánchez Pardo, JC
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Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 2009 The Alfonso II charter of 812 supports our theory that the Kingdom of Asturias was a continuation of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo. From a reading of the document it can be deduced that the determination to recover Hispania stood at the heart of what we call the Reconquest, and therefore simply constituted an attempt to recover the ancient ...
Montenegro, Julia, del Castillo, Arcadio
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Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 2006 Montenegro Julia, Del Castillo Arcadio. An Unusual Episode in the Historiography of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo: Wamba as Instigator in the Repudiation of Cixilo by Egica. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 84, fasc. 2, 2006. Histoire medievale, moderne et contemporaine - Middeleeuwse. moderne en hedendaagse geschiedenis. pp.
Montenegro, Julia, del Castillo, Arcadio
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