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Drought as a possible contributor to the Visigothic Kingdom crisis and Islamic expansion in the Iberian Peninsula. [PDF]
Camuera J +7 more
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The admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries: reaching behind the sources
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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Tyrannical power of the bishop and social space: The case of Mérida in the late 6th century
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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Western Connections of Northeast Africa: The Garnet Evidence from Late Antique Nubia, Sudan
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
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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Principles of formation of clerical identity in Isidore’s of Seville treatise On ecclesiastical offices [PDF]
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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Slavery and identity in Mozarabic Toledo : 1201-1320 [PDF]
L'ocupació musulmana de Toledo va significar la coexistencia, en aquesta ciutat, de col·lectius que professaven religions diferents i entre els quals la tensió era freqüent: mossàrabs, jueus, castellans i colons francesos es convertiren en els grups ...
Ryan, Michael A.
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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 codice que utilizo J. Vaseo no tiene nada que ver con los fragmentos del codice Alcobacense existentes en Madrid y Londres. De hecho todo empuja a considerar que tuvo que ser la Summa Chronicorum (que no se puede identificar con el codice Matritense),
A. Castillo
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Borders, centres and peripheries in late Roman and Visigothic Iberia [PDF]
This article surveys scholarship on the evolving provincial organization of the Iberian Peninsula in the late and immediately post-Roman periods (fourth to early eighth centuries CE), when the region moved gradually from the control of the Western Roman ...
Wood, Jamie
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