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Waltheof: The Journey from Warrior to Saint

Scandia: Tidsskrift för historisk forskning, 2022
The elevation to sainthood of the English earl, Waltheof, who was beheaded, ostensibly for rebellion against William the Conqueror, exemplifies the process by which non-elite and elite communities coalesced to construct a saintly cult in late eleventh ...
E. Dachowski, M. Hennequin
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Refining a Shugenja Elite

Journal of Religion in Japan, 2022
In this article I investigate the reform of Haguro Shugendō undertaken by the bettō (Chief Administrator) Kakujun in concert with the elite shugenja households of Tōge during the Kasei (1804–1829) era.
Fran Clements
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WARRIORS, KINGS, AND TEOHUAQUE AT TULA: A RECONSIDERATION OF THE SO-CALLED “WARRIOR PILLARS” ATOP PYRAMID B

Ancient Mesoamerica, 2021
Pyramid B was one of the most important buildings in the sacred precinct of the Early Postclassic city of Tula, Hidalgo. On its summit was a temple supported by anthropomorphic and zoomorphic columns and four pillars containing the reliefs of 16 ...
Elizabeth Jiménez García
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Warrior’s Razor in Bronze Age Europe: Symbol and Function

Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, 2021
Razors are frequently found in warrior graves of the later half of the second millennium BC in Scandinavia, central Europe, Italy and Greece. It is common to treat such razors as indicating a status and symbolizing an elite lifestyle.
D. Panchenko
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2. Early warrior authority

, 2021
This chapter describes the creation of warriors as an early status group. Minamoto Yoritomo won the Gempei War, an event that allowed him to create his own mini government in Kamakura, later referred to as the Kamakura shogunate.
M. Wert
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On the Decline of Elite-Educated Republicans in Congress

Perspectives on Politics
We identify a rise in educational polarization among members of the US Congress mirroring the educational polarization in the American mass public. Over the past half-century, the percentage of Republican representatives who attended elite educational ...
C. Volden, Jonathan Wai, Alan E. Wiseman
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Adea Eurydice the 'Warrior Queen'?

Crossings: An Undergraduate Arts Journal
This paper examines whether or not Adea Eurydice, the teenage Queen of Macedon after the death of Alexander the Great, personally fought in the Battle of Euia.
Anna Smythe
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WARRIOR KINGS OF SOUTH INDIA: COMPARATIVE MILITARY TRADITIONS

ShodhKosh Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
The warrior kings of South India shaped the region’s history through diverse and sophisticated military traditions that evolved over centuries. This study explores the martial systems of major South Indian dynasties, including the Pallavas, Cholas ...
Somanatha C H
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Suvorovo Type Belts (for the study of the Volga-Ural paramilitary elite of the 4 th century AD)

Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology
Several Azelino sites yielded Suvorovo-type belts. These belts are characterized by a combination of B-shaped buckles, strap-ends with curved sides, belt mounts in the form of two lozenges.
Igor Gavritukhin
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Continuity of the Late La Tène warrior elite in the Early Roman Period in South Pannonia

2012
During the Roman conquest and the ensuing stabilization in the late 1st c. BC and 1st c. AD. the most prominent position in the society of the Scordisci, Taurisci and those of autochthonous Pannonian communities was held by the local warrior elites.
Dizdar, Marko, Radman-Livaja, Ivan
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