L’iconographie de la croix sur les sarcophages du haut Moyen Âge en Gaule by Anne Flammin

“…In the fifth century, the instrument of torture was clearly represented and often covered with a splendid decoration of precious stones. In the Early Middle Ages, it continued to occupy a predominant place in iconography and was one of the most popular motifs in the decoration of sarcophagi from the late fifth to the early eighth century in Gaul. …”
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Analiza materiału kostnego z wczesnośredniowiecznego cmentarzyska z Wilanowa by Jacek Tomczyk

“…So, the aim of work is to examinate the structure of Wilanow’s population dated back to the early Middle Ages. The whole series is represented by 75 skulls and 48 sketetons. …”
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German Loans in Early English by Ulrich Busse

“…The paper outlines the contribution of German to the word stock of English in the three periods of Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English, or, in other words, from the early Middle Ages up to 1700, and relates these words to major cultural events, such as the Christianisation of England, the Norman Invasion, the Reformation and to the beginnings of science and technology during the Renaissance. …”
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L’écriture du monde (I). by Nicolas Perreaux

“…Conversely, unable to define a chrono-geographical pattern for the Early Middle Ages, the article concludes in the existence of another semantics for the charters of that period, which explains both their (relative) scarcity and their specific distribution.…”
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Candes-Saint-Martin et ses cimetières : évolution de son organisation spatiale, depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à l’époque Moderne (Région Centre, Indre-et-Loire) by Stéphanie Philippon, Matthieu Gaultier

“…The supervision of sanitation work in the municipality of Candes-Saint-Martin, rue Trochet and in the locality les “Perrières”, realized in 2011/2012 by the Service de l’Archéologie du Conseil Général d’Indre-et-Loire, allowed to explore in a new way a surface of more than 2200 m2 in the center of the village.The indications of ancient occupations are very thin and brought only few new elements for the understanding of the organization of the secondary agglomeration.On the other hand, the data collected for the next periods (field data, history, archives, analysis of the built vestiges, in particular concerning two funeral large sets, allow us to raise a first sketch of the evolution of the spatial organization, since the Early Middle Ages (running VIIth century) till the end of the Modern period.…”
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Le castrum de l’Antiquité tardive et du haut Moyen Âge de Mandeure et l’établissement fortifié de hauteur de Château-Julien (Doubs) by David Billoin, Cédric Cramatte

“…They allowed to reconsider the town evolution between the Late Iron Age and the Early Middle Ages but above all to understand the extent of changes that the town goes through during the Late Antiquity; the construction of a castrum and of an Early Christian basilica on the spot of a military camp built in the mid-4th c. …”
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Le monastère face aux laïques au haut Moyen Âge : lieux de culte secondaires et accueil aux limites de l’espace monastique dans le contexte italien  by Eleonora Destefanis

“…Just at the edge of this space – the claustrum or a much bigger territory, perceived however as monasterium in every aspect – we can find specific complexes for social (and sometimes medical) services, in certain cases provided with secondary churches, distinct from the abbatial one.The paper studies, through some Early Middle Ages Italian cases and referring to written as well as archaeological sources, the topographical and functional choices connected to these structures. …”
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A voz ou a plenitude do texto. Performance oral, práticas de leitura e identidade literária no Ocidente medieval by Carlos F. Clamote Carreto

“…How can we explain this astonishment that modern criticism has interpreted as a clear evidence that High Middle Ages, following the models of Classical Antiquity, mainly developed the reading aloud, rather than the Early Middle Ages that had invented silent reading? Through the privileged perspective of French Medieval Literature (but not only), these reflections aim to question the evolutionary and cognitive conception of the history of reading refocusing the problem in the irreducible tension – which has partly characterized Western culture – between the letter and the voice, between an idealization of the writing elevated into the magic sphere of the Sacred (or the Law) which places the oral performance under the sign of a corrupted fabula, and a long tradition that, from Plato to Hegel, assimilates logocentrism and phonocentrism. …”
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PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE M.M. BAKHTIN: HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIMENSION by Spartak Sh. Aytov

“…Conclusion: concept of the philosophy of culture, MM Bakhtin, in particular, the culture of humor, the popular perception of the world, carnival, social and cultural doubleworld, reconstruction of the domestic foundations of culture laughter Europe era high Middle Ages and the Renaissance were one of the most important conceptual elements in the study of the mentality of socially significant behavior and daily life as these periods, so or any other, from the early Middle Ages to the present.…”
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Makroszczątki roślinne w torfie w analizie paleośrodowiskowych uwarunkowań osadnictwa na przykładzie stanowiska Łane Małe w dolinie Kłodnicy by Krzysztof J. Wójcicki, Marek Kloss

“…In the Fate Roman Period (the Przeworsk Culture settlement) and in the early Middle Ages, the peatland was subject to inundation due to frequent flooding, the peat accumulation was then halted by the delivery of fine-grained products of soil erosion.…”
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Conservatism of funeral rites of the western Balts by V.I. Kulakov

“…A parallel was drawn between these features and the data of the merchant Wulfstan on the funerary jumps of the Prussians of the 9th century. In the early Middle Ages, the winner of funeral races received a significant part of the property of the buried tribesman, while the prize-winner in the Prussian funeral arrivals during the era of the Reformation was symbolically enriched only with a small change of one shilling. …”
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The evolution of hospitals from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…In Rome itself, the first hospital was built in the 4th century AD by a wealthy penitent widow, Fabiola. In the early Middle Ages (6th to 10th century), under the influence of the Benedictine Order, an infirmary became an established part of every monastery. …”
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“We will give you recite, and you will not forget” (Quran, 87:6). A tale of the Kazan Khan and his clever vizier by Zaytsev I.V.

“…However, as an example of playing on words of an anecdotal nature, this story could well have appeared in the Volga region in the early Middle Ages. After all, it is based on the difference in reading the Arabic language and Turkic speech recorded in Arabic script. …”
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Aménagement d’ossuaires dans le baptistère paléochrétien de Brioude (Haute-Loire) :  sélection, tri des ossements et relation À l’Âge au décès by Aline Thomas, Fabrice Gauthier, Esther Gatto, Pascal Murail

“…It was associated with the sanctuary housing the relics of Saint Julien, which dates to the early Middle Ages. During its period of use, the baptistery provided for intra muros burial. …”
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL SEARCH FOR VALUE ORIENTATIONS OF A NEW CULTURE BY AURELIUS AUGUSTINE by V. V. Kuzmenko, V. O. Boniak, I. A. Serdіuk

“…The article is aimed to reveal the essence of the eternal problem, comprehended by Augustine Aurelius in the culture of the early Middle Ages – the focus of the value orientations of the anthropological search. …”
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IUENNA – openIng the soUthErn jauNtal as a micro-regioN for future Archaeology: A «para-description» by Hagmann, Dominik, Reiner, Franziska

“…This landscape spans from prehistoric times to the early Middle Ages and encapsulates the diverse Jauntal Valley. …”
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Les zones de production du fer en Bourgogne-Franche-Comté : une approche sur la longue durée par le radiocarbone by Marion Berranger, Marc Leroy, Hervé Laurent

“…They were, however, active again during the early Middle Ages and other areas that had not previously existed appeared in the data (Morvan-Auxois, Mâconnais, the Berthelange area). …”
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Le mobilier en cuir antique et médiéval du boulevard Dr Henri-Henrot à Reims/Durocortorum by Martine Leguilloux

“…The second group is that of the quartered upper portions, which are found in all levels until the early Middle Ages (state 13). For each group, high topped models exist, rising to the ankle, and others with lower upper portions. …”
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De l’agglomération antique de Cassinomagus au village de Chassenon (Charente) : un bilan des connaissances by Lucie Carpentier, Sandra Sicard

“…AD in the monumental complex of this urban area, it is possible that the population subsequently congregated around a parish center, where burials from the Early Middle Ages are attested to. The following centuries were little documented by archeology and our primary source of information relative to them come from historical research dating to the 10th c. …”
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Le fromage en Gaule à l’âge du Fer et à l’époque romaine : état des lieux pour sa production et analyse de sa place dans le monde antique by Alain Ferdière, Jean-Marc Séguier

“…The study was therefore carried out on a temporal and a spatial scale, using data of a rather different nature:- first, on the scale of Gaul in a broader geographical sense (including Gallia Narbonnensis and the three Gallic provinces as well as the two German and the Alpine provinces) between the Early Iron Age (8th-7th c. BC) and the Early Middle Ages (7th c. AD), mainly based on archaeological data;- second, for comparison and perspective, the ancient world on the scale of the Mediterranean area, somewhat enlarged by the limits of the Roman Empire at its greatest size between the 8th c. …”
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