The Gǝʿǝz Manuscripts Collection from the Monastery of Däbrä Ṣǝyon (Abunä Abrǝham, Tǝgray, Ethiopia) by Hagos Abrha Abay

“… The monastery of Däbrä Ṣǝyon (Abunä Abrǝham), situated on a peak of the eastern chains of the Gärʿalta mountains, is one of the well-known medieval Ethiopian monasteries. It is said to have been established in the fourteenth century by St Abrǝham of Tǝgray. …”
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Pigs, people, and proximity: a 6000-year isotopic record of pig management in Ireland by Eric Guiry, Fiona Beglane, Finbar McCormick, Eric Tourigny, Michael P. Richards

“…While pig diets show an emphasis on pannage throughout much of the period, husbandry was fundamentally reconstructed in the early medieval period. Through prehistory, pigs were herded in areas distant from human settlements, whereas later they were relocated to live near people. …”
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF "CRIME" IN HISTORICO-PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE by I. O. Kovnierova

“…The paper considers the establishment of the paradigmatic determinants of the understanding of crime on the basis of fundamental changes in understanding of the essence of a man in ancient, medieval, Renaissance, modern and postmodern philosophy. …”
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Insignia of the Lithuania's rulers depicted on majesty seals during the end of the 13th and the middle of the 15th centuries: iconographical aspect of political programme by Loreta Skurvydaitė

“…Examining the Lithuanian seals' data, one could prove that the iconographical programme was influenced not only by the medieval sphragistic tradition but also by political aspirations. …”
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<i>Turbat al-Ḥusayn</i>: Modern Presentation of an Early Shīʿī Practice by S. M. Hadi Gerami, Zinab Aghagolizadeh

“…During the pre-Safavid period, including the medieval Islamic centuries, the sanctification of <i>turbat</i> evolved through the efforts of Shīʿī Imams such as al-Bāqir and al-Ṣādiq, who integrated it into the theological framework of wilāyah (guardianship) and Shīʿī ritual practices. …”
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The Role of the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society in the Abolition of Oozhiyam (Bonded Labor Service) in Kerala by Ayyappan Balakrishnan

“…Caste slavery was an oppressive, discriminative, and exploitive system which existed in Kerala from an early medieval period onwards. In the social structure of Kerala, the bonded or forced labor system was an unavoidable factor of slavery. …”
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Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…The works of such late-Victorian writers as Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, Theodore Wratislaw, John Oliver Hobbes and Oscar Wilde represent Catholic churches as retreats set apart from the ugliness and mediocrity of Victorian England—religious versions of Des Esseintes’s Fontenay-aux-Roses house in À rebours—filled with incense, organ music, and coloured light filtering through medieval stained-glass windows. In Dowson’s correspondence or in his poem ‘Benedictio Domini’, in Johnson’s ‘Our Lady of France’, in Wratislaw’s ‘Palm Sunday’ and ‘Songs to Elizabeth’, in some of Wilde’s stories, the opposition between inside and outside expresses figuratively the fundamental incompatibility between an ideal of beauty, embodied in the aesthetic experience of the church, and the coarseness of the outside world. …”
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Preamplification Procedure for the Analysis of Ancient DNA Samples by Stefania Del Gaudio, Alessandra Cirillo, Giovanni Di Bernardo, Umberto Galderisi, Theodoros Thanassoulas, Theodoros Pitsios, Marilena Cipollaro

“…In this study we extracted the DNA from nine human skeletal remains of different ages found in the Byzantine cemetery of Abdera Halkidiki and in the medieval cemetery of St. Spiridion in Rhodes (Greece). …”
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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

“…As the direction of their scientific research, the problem of the relationship of reason, faith, knowledge, which has risen sharply in medieval Christian culture, has been considered. The logical outcome of these studies was the assertion that for Augustine Platonism was the main of the philosophical teachings of antiquity; that Augustine, being in line with Christian philosophy, considered the understanding of the aesthetic perfection of the Divine creation of the world as the sense of human life. …”
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Lithuania's Image in Modem History Schoolbooks of Russia by Nerijus Šepetys

“…According to the typology suggested by the Russian historian Alexander Filiyushkin, the GDL is considered to be a "true Rus" and also a "victim of Lithuanians' occupation." Generally, the medieval Lithuanian state is being perceived either as a "historical misunderstanding" or as "essentially Russian lands," while Lithuania in the Union with Poland, and particularly in the composition of the Russian Empire, receives only episodical mention in separate schoolbooks. …”
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Was Grand Duchy of Lithuania a Federation? by Zenonas Norkus

“…However, the Moscow empire represents only one specific type of empire - Westphalian empire, distinguished by the early application of direct rule. While most medieval polities were transformed into sovereign territorial states and Westphalian empires in the early modern time, GDL was unique in following the path of federalization. …”
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TRANSFORMATION REFLEXES OF PRE-CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW IN KIEVAN RUS LITERATURE by Nataliia O. Stratonova

“…For the first time takes into account the specifics of medieval imagination and poetry, studied the religious significance of the texts found their reflection in the pre-Christian beliefs and stated on their role in shaping the world Kievan Rus’ scribes, analyzed the specificity of interaction between Christian and pagan notions. …”
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Provincial Administration and Local Nobility in Courland in the Middle of the 19th Century by N. A. Mogilevskii

“…This situation, typical of medieval feudal Europe, ran counter to the Russian patrimonial socio-political model, which irritated the Russian elite. …”
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Runoff responses to Atlantic multidecadal and Pacific decadal oscillations in China: Insights from the last millennium simulations by Yangyi Liu, Jie Chen, Lihua Xiong, Chong-Yu Xu

“…However, the short observations limit the study of runoff response to AMO and PDO. Taking Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) and Little Ice Age (LIA) as study periods and focusing on summer runoff in China, this study aims to investigate 1) the major time scales at which AMO/PDO affects runoff, and 2) the individual and coupled effects of AMO and PDO on runoff by using last millennium climate model simulations. …”
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Luvsandanzanzhaltsan (1639–1704) and his Role in the History of Buddhism in Mongolia by Tsymzhit P. Vanchikova

“…The results of the study allow us to conclude that Lamyn-gegen has made a great contribution into the spread of Buddhism in Mongolia, alongside with distributing Buddhist teaching and achievements of the centuries-old experience of medieval scientific knowledge of the East. He was the first Mongolian astrologer and emchi-lama, doctor, who has laid the foundation for the study of the heritage of Indo-Tibetan medicine and the creation of its Mongolian branch. …”
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Canine Actors and Melodramatic Effects: The Dog of Montargis Arrives on the English Stage by Claudia Alonso Recarte

“…This work examines how, through the adaptation of the widely celebrated French canine melodrama Le chien de Montargis onto the British stage, Victorian society explored and attempted to define its own distinct cultural alliance and conceptualization of the dog. Based on a medieval legend, Le chien was originally written for the Parisian stage by Guilbert de Pixerécourt in 1814, and it immediately attracted the attention of English theatre businessmen. …”
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ROMANTIC HUMAN STUDY: PECULIARITIES OF PERSONALITY PHILOSOPHY IN THE LITERATURE OF THE 1820-1830-IES. by T. N. Zhuzhgina-Allahverdian, S. A. Ostapenko

“…Structural analysis of numerous romantic texts allows us to draw the following conclusion: with mythopoetic imagery and anthropological thought about a man, romantic writers introduced the reader to any wisdom, to philosophical understanding of their human essence, to past and modern teachings, in a way processed antique, medieval and enlightening views, in which an important place was given to reflections on the place of man in nature, society, and history. …”
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Eine Systematik diatonischer Skalen by Marc Neufeld

“…The system contains, besides traditional scales (e.g. medieval and renaissance modes, Blues scales), many others that have not been systematized so far. …”
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Wpływ prawa rzymskiego na kształtowanie się wybranych instytucji prawa ukraińskiego — uwagi na marginesie art. 291 k.p.k. by Wojciech J. Kosior

“…Apart from a mere comparison of the content of the ancient transmission with the current provision, the article attempts to demonstrate the precise Roman roots of this institution through a thorough analysis spanning from ancient law, medieval law, modern law and up to modern solutions. …”
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Kazakh khans of the 15th–17th centuries in the scientific heritage of Shigabutdin Marjani by Atygayev N.A.

“…Research materials: Sh. Marjani’s works, medieval written historical sources, and historical scientific literature on the history of the Kazakh Khanate of the 15th–17th centuries. …”
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