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Ornas (also Hornach) appears in the mentions of several Latin authors in the mid-thirteenth century as an important city deep in Asia that had been conquered by the Mongols. There have been several past suggestions by scholars for its... more
Review of Lawrence Nees, Frankish Manuscripts
A book about the history of Tilburg, a town in the South of the Netherlands (province Noord-Brabant). Originally published in 2001.
"Rarely in modern scholarship do researchers get the chance, with but a single volume, to establish the state of the art for an entire discipline. With the publication of Caucasian Albania: an International Handbook, we can rightly say... more
This paper focuses on the analysis of the ways which areas of collective use were created and claimed in the Middle Ages, through the case of the devasos of Ciudad Rodrigo. They were lands used preferentially to the grazing of cattle and... more
This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, Finland,... more
In questo fascicolo è contenuta la sezione Confronti (monografica), che è dedicata alla New Diplomatic History. Preceduta da una premessa metodologica di Francesco Storti, sono raccolti un gruppo di contributi che traducono le più... more
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/la-question-du-jour/les-cathares-ont-ils-existe-3710110 Alors qu'une exposition à Toulouse propose à partir du 5 avril, de revenir sur la fameuse croisade des catholiques contre les... more
Geoelectrics is a branch of geophysics which studies and monitors electrical and, along with geomagnetism, electromagnetic fields of the Earth. Possibility for application of geoelectrical explorations is based on the fact that minerals,... more
The « fama communis » or « publica » (« common fame » or « renown ») held an increasingly important place in judicial sources from 1150-1200 onwards. Its new significance should be correlated with the development, within ecclesiastic and... more
At the beginning of this history, in the ninth century, Iceland was uninhabited save for fowl and smaller arctic animals. At its end, in the middle of the sixteenth century, it had embarked on a course that led to the creation of a small... more
امتلك الملأ في القرآن الكريم سلطة الحكي، ولكنه لم يمتلك سلطة الحجة الظاهرة، فانطلق بإيعاز من نفوذه المادي ولغايات الحفاظ عليه يحاجج الأنبياء –عليهم السلام- وأتباعهم، فكان حجاجا مراوغا تقنَّع بالصلاح وإرادة الإصلاح، ودرء المفاسد التي... more
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ObjectivesDegenerative joint disease in the spine is heavily influenced by genetic, environmental, and epigenetic factors, as well as exacerbated by physical activity and injury. The objective of this study was to investigate the... more
El presente trabajo aborda el estudio arqueométrico y arqueológico de un pequeño fragmento de escultura monumental romana procedente del asentamiento urbano de El Forau de la Tuta (Artieda, Zaragoza, España). Dicha pieza, fabricada en... more
Pregnancy constitutes not only a challenge for the body of the woman, but also a developmental and psychological task for the mother-to-be, her partner and the entire family. Considerable amount of research has been published on the... more
O artigo trata a profecia joaquimita dos tres grandes homens na sua recepcao e adaptacaopelos franciscanos medievais. Entende-se que essa profecia provem de Joaquim de Fiore,porem, a primeira aplicacao a figura de Francisco de Assis, como... more
In a number of complex codices from different Castilian monastic archives there are tantalising glimpses of early cartularies in Visigothic script that predate in some cases what is generally regarded as the first of its kind in Castile,... more
This is the abstract of a paper that is currently under peer review by *Medical History*, where our original essay, "Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258)," originally appeared in 2021. An embargoed copy of the complete paper has been... more
Vasiliev Istoria Imperiului Bizantin (pag.543-850)
Resumo: A representacao da face de Jesus Cristo no campo das artes visuais tem variado muito ao longo dos seculos. Este artigo se propoe a mostrar a evolucao dessa imagem simbolo ao fiel cristao ao longo dos tempos, desde os anos... more
The first part of this paper has shown that the burghal territories of burhs created in the early tenth century in what later became Buckinghamshire and south-west Northamptonshire comprised one or more large ‘proto-hundreds’, typically... more
Diplomová práce se zabývá vznikem královského města Čáslav a podmínkami, které jsou pro vznik královského města určující. Začíná přírodními podmínkami, které jsou rozhodujícím faktorem pro dlouhodobé lidské osídlení. Následně navazuje... more
The relative frequency of the common phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) mutation R408W and its associations with polymorphic RFLP, VNTR, and short-tandem-repeat (STR) sites in the PAH gene were examined in many European populations and one... more
The aim of the study is to explore the medieval concepts on the voluntary death of severely sick people, as they emerge through the endura (endurance) of the heresy of the Cathars in France (twelfth to fourteenth centuries). The endura... more
Le spectacle de la violence et de la mort et ses conséquences (1999) . Quelle est la responsabilité des images dans l’ accroissement de la violence adolescente aujourd’hui en France comme aux Etats-Unis? Le phénomène n’est pas nouveau... more
The elaborated entitled ‘Blessed Dorothea of Montau – a Europe-renowned mystic in the Pomesanian cathedral’ shows the blessed Dorothea of Montau’s mystic experiences that in view of similarity of her experiences with spiritual experiences... more
Medieval Bulgarian medicine from the iX-Xv c. was characterized by the low occurrence of medical services, by their inaccessibility, as well as by the widespread disappointment in learned physicians. This led to the search for alternative... more
Na fé e cultura dos povos originários da América, os ritos funerários não só facilitam a viagem do finado até a região dos mortos como também os impedem de retornar ao mundo dos vivos. Na pandemia de coronavírus (COVID-19), indagamo-nos:... more