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«On the Coats of Arms of the City of Merida» by B. Moreno de Vargas (17th century) [PDF]

Латиноамериканский исторический альманах
In the heraldic treatise of B. Moreno de Vargas' «Discursos de la nobleza de España», one chapter is devoted to the coat of arms of his hometown, Mérida. Moreno de Vargas favored not the medieval coat of arms of Mérida, but, in keeping with the tradition
Tchernik Alexander
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Knowledge and specialised trades in the late antique West: medicine vs engineering [PDF]

, 2018
The high degree of specialisation achieved in the Roman world covered a vast area of trades and reached beyond economy and production into specialised knowledge and science, but in the transition to the Middle Ages large parts of this knowledge were lost.
González, Patricia, Martínez, Javier
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What is adoration? Contesting meaning in the margins of the Opus Caroli regis contra synodum (c.790–4)

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 387-411, August 2024.
Contradictions over the meaning of adoration (adoratio) in Theodulf of Orléans’ Opus Caroli regis contra synodum have been used to minimize the role of mistranslation in the late eighth‐century Greek–Latin dispute over images. This study, however, scrutinizes the contested meaning of adoration in the original manuscript to expose tensions among ...
Huw Foden
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The Autobiographical Works of Valerius of Bierzo: their structure and purpose

Antigüedad y Cristianismo, 1986
Of all the major literary figures of Visigothic Spain, Valerius is probably, at first sight, the oddest, certainly the least well understood, and the most unjustly vilified.
Roger Collins
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Relations between Spanish Archaeologists and Nazi Germany (1939–1945): A preliminary examination of the influence of Das Ahnenerbe in Spain

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2008
Julio Martínez Santa Olalla, appointed Commissioner-General for Archaeological Excavations at the Spanish Ministry of National Education and Fine Arts in 1939, established, with the support of the Falange (Spain’s ...
Francisco Gracia Alonso
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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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Origo gothica e Scandinavia nel dibattito goticista della Spagna asburgica

Filologia Germanica
A spirit of nationalistic exaltation marked the height of Sweden at the time of the Thirty Years’ War, when great importance was attached to the myth of the Goths and their presumed Scandinavian origin.
Marco Battaglia
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Participación episcopal en la articulación de la vida política hispano-visigoda

Studia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2010
RESUMEN: Lo que se pretende con este artículo es llegar a definir las relaciones entre el poder episcopal y el poder civil, constituido éste tanto por el monarca como por el grupo nobiliario; relaciones que quedan reflejadas en la intervención real en ...
Lina FERNÁNDEZ ORTIZ DE GUINEA
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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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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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