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‘Because their patron never dies’: ecclesiastical freedmen, socio‐religious interaction, and group formation under the aegis of ‘church property’ in the early medieval west (sixth to eleventh centuries)

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, H. A. Gilg, U. Schüssler, B. Wagner   +3 more
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Tyrannical power of the bishop and social space: The case of Mérida in the late 6th century

Шаги, 2022
The article focuses on the figure of an evil bishop in the “Lives of the Fathers of Merida” in the context of the image of a tyrant. The figures of the king and the bishop, on the one hand, and the tyrant and the bad bishop, on the other, are shown to be
M. Yu. Birkin
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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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Conquest and integration of Gallaecia into the Visigothic kingdom [PDF]

, 2022
En los últimos años la historiografía ha prestado una enorme atención a la Gallaecia tardoantigua, lo que ha contribuido a un mejor conocimiento del desarrollo histórico de esta región.
Pablo Poveda Arias, Poveda Arias, Pablo
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Continuity, transformation and extinction of the curiae in Spain from the 4th to the 9th centuries

Шаги, 2023
The article deals with the historical destiny of the curiae and other institutions connected with them in the system of Roman free cities-municipia. The common opinion of experts (C. Sánchez Albornoz, M. I. Rostovtzeff, A. H. M. Jones and some others) is
L. A. García Moreno
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Principles of formation of clerical identity in Isidore’s of Seville treatise On ecclesiastical offices [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2018
This article studies the notion of the clergy of Isidore of Seville (ca. 560–636). The main source is the treatise “On Ecclesiastical Offi ces”, which was not studied from this point of view before.
Mikhail Birkin
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To name and control

Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2019
This paper’s objective is to analyze the transformations in Visigothic provincial organization, as related to the development of the integration process of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo. To achieve this objective, I divided the paper in three sections:
Paulo Pachá
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El Papel de la Providencia: el juicio de Dios como categoría histórica en la historiografía visigoda

Carthaginensia, 2021
En este trabajo queremos destacar el papel que juega la providencia en el devenir de los acontecimientos dentro de las obras de los tres historiadores más icónicos del reino visigodo de Toledo.
JOSE ANGEL CASTILLO LOZANO
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