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Between theft and treason: latrocinium in Carolingian capitularies
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 367-390, August 2025.Suppressing robbery, latrocinium, was a priority for Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, Charles the Bald, and Louis II at key political moments. Latrones were conceptualized as ordinary thieves, as highway robbers, and as threats to peace and security. In capitularies, latrocinium was implicitly and explicitly associated with infidelity.
James R. Burns
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INHERITANCE AND INCEST: TOWARD A LÉVI‐STRAUSSIAN READING OF MONTESQUIEU'S DE L'ESPRIT DES LOIS1
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 46-74, March 2025.ABSTRACT The premise of this article is that Montesquieu, while seen as an Enlightenment thinker who contributed centrally to the development of the social sciences before the period of discipline formation in the nineteenth century, is generally appreciated in only the vaguest of terms.
Paul Cheney
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 337-386, August 2024.The early medieval coin‐using economy is traditionally conceptualized as a masculine sphere with minimal female involvement. This article examines a corpus of 135 gold and pale gold coins of the later sixth and seventh centuries that underwent modification as coin‐pendants, a form of jewellery that belongs almost exclusively to feminine contexts ...
Katie D. Haworth +1 more
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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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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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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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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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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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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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