Pre-Modern Bosom Serpents and Hippocrates' <i>Epidemiae</i> 5: 86: A Comparative and Contextual Folklore Approach by Davide Ermacora

“…This paper aims: 1) to throw light on this ancient passage through a comparative folkloric analysis and through a philological-contextual study, with reference to modern and contemporary interpretations; and 2) to offer an examination of previous scholarly enquiries on the fantastic intrusion of animals into the human body. In medieval and post-medieval folklore and medicine, sleeping out in the field was dangerous: snakes and similar animals could, it was believed, crawl into the sleeper’s body through the ears, eyes, mouth, nostrils, anus and vagina. …”
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Francés Carrós Pardo de la Casta, un humanista para el Cancionero general by Estela Pérez Bosch

“… El presente estudio se centra en la poesía de Francés Carrós Pardo de la Casta, un autor valenciano, cuyo poema “Consuelo de amor”, publicado por vez primera en el Cancionero general de 1511 puede ser interpretado a la luz de la doctrina del humanismo medieval. El poema, compuesto en castellano, puede ser leído como una versión lírica de la Regoneixença e moral consideració sobre los vicis e forces d´amor, una segunda obra de Carrós escrita en prosa catalana medieval que plantea una digresión sobe el amor humano desde la perspectiva de un moralismo laico que pone de relieve la deuda contraída con Dante y especialmente con Petrarca. …”
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Expressões retóricas do amor no Cancioneiro Geral de Garcia de Resende by Geraldo Augusto Fernandes

“…The rhyme and the stanza are, then, parts of the ornament along with the figures and tropes, formerly used in oratorical eloquence. The medieval humanists, in their cult of ancient civilization, transpose to the act of making poetry the same elements and concerns characteristic of past orators. …”
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La nuit mamelouke.Contribution à l’histoire du quotidien au Caire et à Damas à la fin du Moyen Âge by Mathieu Eychenne

“…Historians of medieval Islamic society have not paid the same attention to night activities as a topic for social history, as have specialists of the medieval west. …”
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Echanges et transformations de l’Annonciation : D’un groupe statuaire en marbre (Toulouse, Musée des Augustins,XIIe siècle) à un bas-relief en bronze d’Igor Mitoraj (Rome, Santa Ma... by Sandra Gorgievski

“…Yet the functions of the medieval cult objects have evolved into dissimilar patterns, transformed by the modern gaze into mere aesthetic objects of contemplation in a museum. …”
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The Visigothic society and its Cemeteries by Francisco Leitão

“… The archeological evidence left by the Visigothic cemeteries can prove to be a significant piece of information for abetter analysis of the society that lived in Early Medieval Hispania. The main purpose of this essay is precisely to understand what kind of conclusions, if any, can be extracted from them. …”
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De la meilleure façon de constituer une collection. Le cas des émaux « byzantins » de Mikhaïl Botkine by Aglaé Achechova

“…The types of objects collected by Botkin changed as he travelled and with fashion: he successively collected the works of the painter A. Ivanov, European medieval and Renaissance objets d’art, and then medieval Russian art. …”
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Всички пътища водят към Рим (конференция на Европейската aсоциация на aрхеолозите) by Petar Parvanov

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From Heroic Science to Visual Studies: Pathways of Heraldry among Concepts, Images, and Contexts by Miguel Metelo de Seixas

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„O pecunia totius mali regina, fraudis et doli amica...“ Peníze v kultuře středověku by Tomáš Krejčík

“…On the one hand the medieval world was permeated with the simple ideas of the barbarians, who plainly identified wealth with happiness and success. …”
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Two in one: the use of "deer" stone for making a statue in the Turkic period (results of photogrammetry in the archaeological and architectural complex "Burana Tower" in Kyrgyzstan... by Tishkin Alexey A., Tabaldiev Kubatbek Sh., Bondarenko Sergey Y.

“…Ancient and medieval images have been identified using photogrammetry.…”
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Ambiguity and confusion around the celebration of the Mawlid. by Mehdi Berriah

“…In addition to the Sunna, both sides of this contemporary debate draw on medieval authors who discussed the issue of celebrating al-mawlid al-nabawī in their time. …”
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Christianity and Islam - the development of modern science nad the genesis of the modern (just) state by D. F. M. Strauss

“…The ideal of the Corpus Christi as the societas perfecta of medieval Christianity is explained in the light of the contest between church and state during the later middle ages. …”
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"Não destruas por causa da comida a obra de Deus" Restrições e recomendações alimentares na legislação sinodal portuguesa (séculos XIV a XVI) by Guida da Silva Cândido

“… Após uma introdução sobre Sínodos - descrição, objetivos e intervenientes - e as celebrações no nosso território durante a época medieval, procura-se, com base na análise de fontes documentais de natureza eclesiástica, mais concretamente através de um conjunto de nove sínodos realizados entre os séculos XIV e XVI, avaliar o papel da alimentação - e suas manifestações - no quotidiano da sociedade medieval. …”
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Centering Orality in the Music History Classroom by Elizabeth Elmi

“…What about the thousands of others who sang and danced and played in various traditions and languages and cultures throughout the medieval and early modern world? How can we change our approach to both scholarship and teaching in a way that re-centers those marginalized voices? …”
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The Pre-Dawn of the Three Caverns Thought: An Examination Based on <i>Shangqing taiji yinzhu yujing baojue</i> by Ling Cao

“…This approach played a crucial role in providing a theoretical foundation for the formation of medieval Daoism.…”
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Description and Explanation of Earthquake in Muslim Thought: A Critical Review on the Book Kashf Al-Salsala ‘An Wasf al-Zalzala by Mir Hamid Hashemi Lashenlo, Arash Mousavi

“…The Suyūti chronological list of earthquakes that occurred in the post-Islamic period contains data on the number and severity of earthquakes and their human, social, and natural consequences, which can be used to study the social history of Medieval Muslims.…”
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Putting Africa on the Black Death map: Narratives from genetics and history by Monica H. Green

“…The strains of Y. pestis currently found in East and Central Africa derive from one of the lineages involved in late medieval outbreaks in Central Eurasia. This post-Black Death strain, it is argued here, entered the continent most likely in the late 15th or early 16th century. …”
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Interpretation of Historical Facts in Modern Italian Literature by the Example of Umberto Eco’s Novel “Baudolino” by O. Yu. Mushtanova

“…The subject of interpretation in the novel is medieval history, in particular, the reign of the emperor Frederick Barbarossa. …”
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Noire géline pond blanc œuf ou Poules et poulaillers médiévaux by Perrine Mane

“…In the medieval iconography, the documents which represent hens and henhouses are many and varied. …”
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