History, hagiography, romance… by Lisa M. Ruch

“…This article traces sources and traditions this Brut’s compiler most likely drew from and considers what implications this may have for our understanding of this particular manuscript and of the evolution and adaptation of Brut chronicles in the late Middle Ages.…”
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Kristofferbilden i Vamlingbo kyrkas kor. Sakrament, rörlighet och gränser by Cecilia Hildeman Sjölin

“…Since the cult of Saint Christopher, the patron saint of travellers and pilgrims, was mainly based on beholding the saint’s image, and the customary position of Christopher images was in the nave, its presence in the chancel provides a suitable point of departure for a discussion of mobility within a sacred space and the accessibility, visual and physical, of the chancel to laymen in the late Middle Ages.The image in Vamlingbo is placed close to a presumed sacrament house in the form of an aumbry in the northern wall. …”
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Rhymed Officium about St. Catherine in the 12th-Century Płock Pontifical by Piotr Wiśniewski

“…Its music bears some explicitly characteristic features of the late Middle Ages monody. A condensed musical style reveals a departure from the initial esthetic assumptions and it presents another possibility of performing the Gregorian chant. …”
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Realidade institucional, historiografia e fontes de gestão financeira da corte medieval portuguesa by Judite A. Gonçalves de Freitas

“…This analysis can provide a basis for comparison with the fiscal records of other Western kingdoms in the Late Middle Ages.…”
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Das Engelhusvokabular. Lexikographie, Diktat und Lateinunterricht im Spätmittelalter by Bunselmeier, J

“…<p>How was Latin taught and learned in the late Middle Ages? This thesis provides an evidence-based answer by contrasting the intended purpose and actual use of a dictated dictionary. …”

Thomas Wylton against minimal times by Trifogli, C

“…This opinion is in contrast with the view that time is continuous, the predominant view in the late Middle Ages. In this paper I first explain the notion of minimal time. …”

Spinning yarns: the archaeological evidence for hand spinning and its social implications, c AD 1200-1500 by Standley, E

“…The artefacts are small finds embodying daily life but also tie into the wider national economy of the High and Late Middle Ages.…”

Copies, Concepts and Time by Anne Eriksen

“…The first is Alexander Nagel and Christopher Woods investigation of two kinds of temporality that vied for dominance in works of art in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The second is Walter Benjamins discussion of artwork in the "age of mechanical reproduction", i.e. the twentieth century. …”
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Écrits comptables et commerce interreligieux : les cas des registres d'Ugo Teralh de Forcalquier et de la compagnie Datini (xive-xve siècles) by Ingrid Houssaye Michienzi, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger

“…The accounting documents, directly issued from the practice of business, allow historians to penetrate at the heart of commercial collaborations between Christians and Jews, and between Christians and Mudéjars, in Western Europe and the Mediterranean Sea in the Late Middle Ages. This paper considers the tracks of economic exchanges, but also social and cultural ones, through the examination of the journal of Ugo Teralh de Forcalquier of 1330-1332, and of the accounting books of the companies of Francesco Datini settled in Majorca and in Valencia around 1390-1410. …”
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« Fruitières comtoises » by Alain Mélo

“…The first traces of breeders associated for merging together their milks to make marketable cheese (cooked pressed cheese) appear in the late Middle Ages (13th century). This entrepreneurial model really started to spread in the seventeenth century. …”
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Des mages à Florence au Quattrocento. Autour de la fête de l’Épiphanie de 1443 by Pauline Duclos-Grenet

“…However, it is in Florence by the late Middle Ages that the production of meaning is the most powerful. …”
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Bilatéralité vs conceptions androcentriques de la parenté en Europe : quelques réflexions à partir des arbores consanguinitatis de la fin du Moyen Âge by Simon Teuscher

“…The article examines some ways in which scholars of the late Middle Ages used canon law conceptualizations of kinship to visualize and understand kinship more broadly. …”
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Communicating the Crusading Activity of the Kings of Navarre in the 14th and 15th Centuries by Julia Pavón Benito

“…This paper analyses the question of documentation and communication about the Crusades from the study of the chronicles of the Kingdom of Navarre in the Late Middle Ages. The purpose is to identify the characteristics and keys of the texts, dissimilar to the welcoming impact of the Crusades in Hispanic and European political, cultural and religious spheres.…”
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“Fruitières comtoises” (Franche-Comté, France) by Alain Mélo

“…The first traces of breeders associated for merging together their milks to make marketable cheese (cooked pressed cheese) appear in the late Middle Ages (13th century). This entrepreneurial model really started to spread in the seventeenth century. …”
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Conquest, Domination and Control: Europe’s Mastery of Nature in Historic Perspective by Philipp Pattberg

“…The question I seek to answer in this contribution is why Europe – a backward civilisation up to the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance – was the birthplace of the distinct ideology of mastery over nature, globalising itself through exploration, discovery, and trade to nearly every corner of the planet. …”
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Canonical jurisprudence in the kingdom of bohemia in the Middle Ages by Krafl Pavel

“…During the High and Late Middle Ages, canon law played a crucial role. This study provides an overview of ecclesiastical legal scholarship in the Czech lands, i.e. in Bohemia (in the Archdiocese of Prague) and in Moravia (in the Diocese of Olomouc). …”
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Pentagram vo sredniot vek – preliminarni istražuvanja vrz osnova na balkanskite primeri<br>The Pentagram in the Middle Ages – Preliminary Researches into Its Meanings</br> by Orhideja Zorova

“…Accent is given to the Balkan examples from the early to the late Middle Ages. Thus the interweaves of christian and pagan layers of the pentagram are detected. …”
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Some Results of the Archaeological Study of the Belgorod Defense Line by Alexander N. Golotvin, Alexander N. Bessudnov

“…According to the authors, the archaeological study of defensive lines can be separated into a separate section of the archeology of the late Middle Ages, since the results obtained during the research have great scientific and social potential.…”
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Su un termine poliano di origine veneziana: peitere (Devisement dou monde, LXXXV, 11) by Andreose, Alvise

“…It also possible that the choice of this term was influenced by the word pitare, attested in the ‘Levantine French’ used in Cyprus during the late Middle Ages to designate ‘a large earthenware vase’, ‘a large jar’ for conserving wine.  …”
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Who were the Burtases? by Yaroslav V. Pylypchuk

“…Iranians occupied a dominant position; the Mordovians were also under their reign In the Late Middle Ages the people called Burtases became a Turkic speaking ethnic group.…”
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