Medieval commerce had little space for a specialized law, and merchants had little need for it. Abstract...
Medieval
Strategies in translating the first national law-code of Norway, the Landslov from 1274, into English. Abstract This...
“She killed her sister, butchered her elder brothers, murdered the ruler, poisoned her mother,” the chronicles say....
His name was synonymous with terror among his enemies and the general populace of the territories that...
The region had been freed from lingering influences of the Byzantine empire and was left to develop...
The origins of the theory are rooted in the medieval idea that God had bestowed earthly power...
The idea of the sacred nature of political power in the medieval world. By Dr. Lorena StuparuInstitute...
There were two ancient Near-Eastern customs that contributed to the development of Christian monasticism. One must remember...
During the first half of the sixth century, the Church had to face the difficulty of preserving...
The late Qing (Manchu) dynasty to the fall of Imperial China. Mongolian Interlude By the mid-thirteenth century,...
The development of Chinese culture as it is still known today, via the Hundred Schools of Thought,...
He came into power at a time when Russian princes were still competing among themselves and struggling...
Two powerful and often conflicting legal systems had emerged. Early Development When the Germanic tribes entered the...
The sheriff of Stirling was ordered by the king to make the perpetrators reconstruct the abbey’s infrastructure within...
The order was formed c.1119 CE when seven knights, led by French nobleman Hugh of Payns, swore...
A new realization of the value of their labor and an unwillingness to be exploited lay behind...
The idea of people of different social levels living together on a single estate for mutual benefit...
PTSD is a relatively modern term, but the symptoms are as old as civilization itself. In the BBC’s Bodyguard, Richard Madden plays...
Recovering a more capacious social topology from the Thomist theology that modern Western philosophy supplanted. Titled Declarations of Dependence:...
By Dr. Sabeen AhmedPhD Candidate, Department of PhilosophyVanderbilt University Poi ch’innalzai un poco piu’le ciglia,vidi ‘l maestro...
Examining the inter-relationship of religion and culture in the time period of medieval Spain known as the...
Because of its geography, Russia is a relatively easy country to invade from both east and west....
Russia spans not only two continents, butalso eleven time zones. Introduction Meet the Giant Imagine a giant...
In the last years of his life, Dante Alighieri was an unsuspecting witness to a rapid shift...
At first glance, a category like ancient science fiction might seem paradoxical. By Mike Bezemek / 08.30.2017 At first...
Periodic outbursts of hostility incited numerous massacres of the Jews in the Middle Ages. Setting the Scene...
The Ashkenazi Jews developed a distinct liturgy and culture. Introduction Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, are...
She was known not only for her political status, but also for her textual skill – whether...
In historiographical tradition, which is characteristic of medieval societies,the history of a nation is portrayed, first, as...
The first law differentiating the rights within nobility was enacted by the national assembly, the diet of...