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Historical reflections on Islam and the Occident [PDF]

, 2012
The media and political scientists create the impression that the world of Islam and the Occident are two totally different civilizations. The author shows, on the contrary, that life in the 14 centuries of the Christian Middle Ages and the Ancien Regime
van Caenegem, Raoul
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Social organizations and political institutions: why China and Europe diverged

Economica, Volume 91, Issue 362, Page 347-382, April 2024.
Abstract This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on, while Europe remained politically fragmented for much longer.
Joel Mokyr, Guido Tabellini
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An early Anglo-Saxon bridle-fitting from South Leckaway, Forfar, Angus, Scotland [PDF]

, 2006
[FIRST PARAGRAPH] In February 2003 the Kinnettles Heritage Group made a quite unexpected find during field-walking at South Leckaway farm near Forfar, Angus (NGR NO 4379 4810): the most northerly example in Britain — by about 150 miles — of an Anglo ...
Dickinson, T.M., Fern, C., Hall, M.A.
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Typologies of usufruct in the visigothic law analysis of the legal casuistry

Vergentis. Revista de Investigación de la Cátedra Internacional Conjunta Inocencio III, 2019
This study will analyse the different typologies of usufruct and use included in the regulation of Visigothic Law and in particular with a view to the main legal bodies of the Goths.
Luis Miguel García Lozano
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The Arabic legal documents of Toledo: the merging of legal cultures in a society in transition

Hispania Sacra
The Arabic documents from Toledo mirror a mosaic of laws and legal customs, together with the merging of laws and legal systems. Indeed, Christians, Muslims, and Jews of Toledo continued writing their legal documents in Arabic, following the pattern of ...
Rocío Daga Portillo
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New Evidence for Appendix Eugeniana 29-47 (Díaz 237) [PDF]

, 2012
In the Appendix to Eugenius of Toledo (MGH auct. ant. 14, 1905), Friedrich Vollmer published an enigmatic set of pieces against love and marriage in old age (carm.
Alberto, Paulo Farmhouse
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La adveración sacramental del testamento en la Cataluña altomedieval [PDF]

, 1995
La adveración sacramental, incorrectamente denominada testamento sacramental, es una tipología documental de una forma testamentaria relacionada con testamentos orales y escritos, muy interesantes para conocer diferentes aspectos sobre la muerte ...
Udina i Abelló, Antonio M.
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Early texts on Hindu-Arabic calculation [PDF]

, 2011
This article describes how the decimal place value system was transmitted from India via the Arabs to the West up to the end of the fifteenth century. The arithmetical work of al-Khw¯arizm¯ı’s, ca.
Folkerts, Menso
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Iudaei et Iudaei baptizati in the Visigoth law [PDF]

, 2016
La decisión de Sisebuto de convertir forzosamente a los judíos, en una fecha cercana al 616 d.C., conformó un nuevo e intrincado mapa identitario en la sociedad visigoda.
Laham Cohen, Rodrigo Jaime, Pecznik, Carolina Andrea   +1 more
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How did the prudentes work on the Breviarium Alaricanum ? The example of the laws on Jews [PDF]

, 2012
11 p.To understand the authors of the Breviarium Alaricanum (sixth century in Aquitaine), their object, their logic, and their methods, there is no alternative but to make an internal study of the work itself.
Nemo-Pekelman, Capucine
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