A kind of magic: a vessel with a unique swastika motif from Jelenia Góra (SW Poland) and early medieval Slavic magical rites by Ewa Lisowska

“…Swastikas on vessel bodies were uncommon in the Early Middle Ages, although throughout the centuries this symbol has been regarded as magical and associated with the solar cult. …”
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Représenter la victoire militaire d’une femme by Marjolaine Massé

“…Embroidery was a key means of expression for the women of the elite class during the early Middle Ages, which allowed them to more easily leave their mark as forces of influence. …”
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Le sarcophage de pierre du haut Moyen Âge, des critères pour une étude by Fabrice Henrion

“…Over the last two decades, the study of Early Middle Ages stone sarcophagi has taken a particular turn: the “object” itself is now worthy of consideration, not only its decoration, thus revealing the distinguishing characteristics that were often that were previously too often left aside. …”
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Comment a-t-on apprécié et compris la sculpture de l’Antiquité tardive et du haut Moyen Âge auxXIXe-XXe siècles ? by Pierre-Yves Le Pogam

“…Since the sculptures of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages were discovered during the modern period, they have given rise to contradictory judgements. …”
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Remarques sur les fonctions érudites et méditatives de l’eschatologie dans le haut Moyen Âge ibérique by Gaelle Bosseman

“…Taking a stance in the historiographical debate on the reality of millenarian fears at the approach of the year 800 and the year 1000, this article offers a reinterpretation of some texts on the end of times in the Iberian Peninsula in the Early Middle Ages. By observing their composition and their context of transmission, the objective is to show that these texts have assumed erudite and scholarly functions – compilation of knowledge, inculcation of eschatological doctrine, teaching, etc. – a priori detached from any fearful expectation of the last days. …”
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Diseases and causes of death among the popes by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“… The causes of death of popes are reviewed in the light of existing knowledge, and analysed in terms of four periods: First Period (64-604) Early Middle Ages (604-1054), Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (1054-1492), and Post-Renaissance (1492-2000). …”
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Nouvelles données sur l’agglomération antique d’Epomanduodurum (Mandeure et Mathay, Doubs) by Philippe Barral, David Billoin, Séverine Blin, Gilles Bossuet, Cédric Cramatte, Catherine Fruchart, Clément Laplaige, Antoine Mamie, Jacques Monnier, Pierre Mougin, Pierre Nouvel, Jean-François Piningre, Matthieu Thivet

“…These studies lead to a better understanding of the appearance, development and decline of Epomanduodurum ; a better knowledge of its morphology, and its religious, economic and social organization between the end of the Iron Age and the Early Middle Ages.…”
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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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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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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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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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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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