Knowledge Commons | Damián Fernández | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/fugitempus1/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Damián Fernández is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:39:29 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 7a78841f86eb65bc16a639617ad1b93e Nick Posegay deposited From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902155/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:00:49 -0400 This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articles on medieval Jewish History, Hebrew and Arabic…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e9c886d88264e5f56c08009e9edba9e Nick Posegay deposited The Illustrated Cairo Genizah in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900712/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:56 -0400 Almost one thousand years ago, the Jews of Old Cairo began to place their worn-out books and scrolls into a hidden storage room – a genizah – of their synagogue. Over the years, they added all sorts of writings to the pile, sacred and secular texts alike. When the chamber was emptied at the end of the 19th century, it held hundreds of tho…[Read more]

]]> 0 6dd9f7e0cd23e509badd9d367e3ec287 Meredith Warren deposited Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898297/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:00:42 -0400 Christian merchants, artisans, and service providers were explicitly targeted by early critics of the movement, who felt, in line with contemporary prejudices, that such people were dirty, ignorant, and prone to the vices of greed and deceit. Detractors hoped to attack Christianity on two intersecting fronts: that the faith was morally bankrupt…[Read more]

]]> 0 da9e750e714d81593c74b36ff1e8c2cd Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit in the group Medieval Mediterranean https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895884/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:28 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 2320cf2b082480ddf886dbe90c0a5b48 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895615/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:03 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 dccdb42b5fd8871ca89f36e72867c8d2 Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891764/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:11 -0400 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8b1b44f374c9fc3aed5e21ae38c8d09 Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891763/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:10 -0400 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

]]> 0 d021c1a72c3d8c14b86aa5e394a9d0b1 Matthew Firth deposited What’s in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred’s ‘the Great’ in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889289/ Sat, 15 Jun 2024 03:00:27 -0400 King Alfred (r. 871–99) is the only native-born English ruler to have gained the byname ‘the Great’. This was not a contemporary sobriquet, but is often considered to have been bestowed in the Elizabethan era by Reformation scholars who increasingly cast Alfred in the role of the founder of the English nation. The acknowledged exception is a refer…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f25905d78a6ae3d72c9ec662e0d9999 Nick Posegay deposited An Early Arabic Translation of Exodus 15 from a Palestinian Melkite Psalter in the Cairo Genizah in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888911/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:00:18 -0400 This article presents an Arabic translation of Exodus 15 from the Cairo Genizah, preserved in two fragments of a Christian psalter (MSS CUL T-S NS 305.198 and T-S NS 305.210). The style of the psalter's Arabic script suggests that it was copied by a well-trained scribe in the late 9th or early 10th century. Such a date makes it the oldest…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e66d51a609437f913892778b9f6501c James Robert Burns started the topic New Group: History of Slavery and Unfreedom in the discussion Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/groups/early-medieval/forum/topic/new-group-history-of-slavery-and-unfreedom-3/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:07:02 -0400 Welcome to the 'History of Slavery and Unfreedom'

So far as I am aware, this is the first and only Humanities Commons group dedicated to the study of slavery.*

The past decade has seen a large number of publications that address slavery in a range of historical societies (e.g., The Cambridge World History; The Palgrave Handbook; On Human…[Read more]

]]> ca27576d367e611dc269e285c1222c83 James Robert Burns deposited ‘Slaves’ and ‘Slave Owners’ or ‘Enslaved People’ and ‘Enslavers’? in the group Medieval Mediterranean https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887768/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 03:00:46 -0400 Studies of slavery increasingly refer to ‘enslaved people’ rather than ‘slaves’, and, to a lesser extent, to ‘enslavers’ rather than ‘slave owners’. This trend began with scholarship in the United States on plantation slavery but has spread to other academic publications. Yet ‘slave’ continues to be widely used, indicating not everyone is aware o…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c4fb303c4d92dbd8f52ca9e68a5460f James Robert Burns deposited ‘Slaves’ and ‘Slave Owners’ or ‘Enslaved People’ and ‘Enslavers’? in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887767/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 03:00:43 -0400 Studies of slavery increasingly refer to ‘enslaved people’ rather than ‘slaves’, and, to a lesser extent, to ‘enslavers’ rather than ‘slave owners’. This trend began with scholarship in the United States on plantation slavery but has spread to other academic publications. Yet ‘slave’ continues to be widely used, indicating not everyone is aware o…[Read more]

]]> 0 1708fd67f133506905bc78ac6a0ee7ab James Robert Burns deposited ‘Slaves’ and ‘Slave Owners’ or ‘Enslaved People’ and ‘Enslavers’? in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887766/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 03:00:19 -0400 Studies of slavery increasingly refer to ‘enslaved people’ rather than ‘slaves’, and, to a lesser extent, to ‘enslavers’ rather than ‘slave owners’. This trend began with scholarship in the United States on plantation slavery but has spread to other academic publications. Yet ‘slave’ continues to be widely used, indicating not everyone is aware o…[Read more]

]]> 0 938175129d94ad1b540b6584e11f34ee Nick Posegay deposited Eleven Colophons by Ten Printers from Seven Cities in the Cairo Genizah in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886341/ Thu, 16 May 2024 03:00:45 -0400 While the Cairo Genizah is mainly known as a repository of medieval manuscripts, modern Genizah collections also contain thousands of folios from texts printed with moveable type between 1500 and 1900. Most of these imprints come from Europe, but almost all of them reached the Cairene Jewish community at some point before 1897. They are also among…[Read more]

]]> 0 ccab6a10b4f96af9231d0d7a3c74dcec Meredith Warren deposited The Greek Hat: 2 Maccabees 4:12 as a Euphemism for Reverse Circumcision in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884594/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:22:28 -0400 Biblical Hebrew is known for its creative avoidance of mentioning intimate body parts. Did such euphemisms continue in Greek-speaking Judaism? This article proposes that the “Greek hat” in 2 Maccabees 4:12 is not (or at least not only) a literal hat or a vague metaphor for Hellenism, as has been suggested through the centuries. Instead, it is a s…[Read more]

]]> 0 06b05e363277c0f35bee47cd74c11199 Henning Ohst deposited Beschreibung von Cod. Guelf. 1027 Helmst., Handschriftendatenbank der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (2023) in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879871/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:00:10 -0400 Manuscript description of Cod. Guelf. 1027 Helmst., containing texts of Priscianus, Boethius, Horace, Ambrose and Sidonius Apollinaris

]]> 0 ed0f08a0f7e6dafffe6dfccf48cbe5d2 Matthew Korpman deposited "What is “the Middle”? Theological Diversity in Valentinian Christianity," Academia Letters (2021): 1-5. in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870478/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:02:21 -0500 This short-form article explores the various presentations of "the Middle" within Valentinian authored documents (the Gospel of Truth and Gospel of Philip) and sources which report about the Valentinians (Irenaeus and his report about Ptolemy's theology). It suggests underscores the deep distinctions each view has and suggests that these may be…[Read more]

]]> 0 4058a1b0dd867aa07effa1f2f158d367 Lloyd Graham deposited Eyes wide open: A recurring ocular motif in and beyond Syracuse, Sicily in the group Medieval Mediterranean https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868210/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 03:00:14 -0500 Sicily – and especially Syracuse – seems to have had an ongoing preoccupation with paired eyes as an apotropaic or magico-religious symbol. This brief paper explores some signature pieces and speculates that the excised eyes of Santa Lucia, patron saint of Syracuse, may be but a recent embodiment of a propensity that dates back to the Neolithic era.

]]> 0 ebaa7d87750ebd09ad419273b3bdf9b7 Mark Beumer deposited From Mithras to Jesus. Ritual Dynamics of Christmas in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867645/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 03:00:44 -0500 At Christmas, Christians celebrate that Jesus was born on December 25 as the son of God andthe Virgin Mary. But this event is not unique. In this article, I show that the birth of Jesus hasseveral non-Christian predecessors, whereby various elements of the ritual dynamics have beenChristianized and implemented into the figure we know today as Jesus Christ.

]]> 0 92d5f907c6425144d7523141629183c6 Rafael Neis deposited In Comics: When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865519/ Tue, 21 Nov 2023 03:00:32 -0500 In comics: how ancient rabbis upend “traditional” ideas of reproduction, gender, and humanity. A blog post commissioned by UC Press Blog about the book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species.

Link: htt…[Read more]

]]> 0 c769bbcca2cdb4f5b5ab1939d35a9b9e Evina Stein(ova) deposited Parallel Glosses, Shared Glosses, and Gloss Clustering: Can Network-Based Approach Help Us to Understand Organic Corpora of Glosses? in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864357/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:00:45 -0500 Glossing was an important element of medieval western manuscript culture. However, glosses are notoriously difficult to analyze because of their triviality, fluid nature, heterogeneity of origin, complex transmission histories, and anonymity. Traditional scholarly approaches such as close reading and the genealogical method often do not produce…[Read more]

]]> 0 86c2412af00022f4d9bf845c1188c2da Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861918/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 03:00:02 -0400 The Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ecfb37fc756b40385dbc0acca49a77e Eddie Meehan deposited The importance of salvation in Carolingian royal advice literature in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858678/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:17:57 -0400 The trend of Carolingian royal advice literature, Fürstenspiegel, or specula principum offers advice to kings on how to rule well and examples of ruling poorly. Interpretations of these texts have often focused on traditional ideas of the Carolingian reforms, for example the focus on classical models of rule in Sedulius Scottus’ De rectoribus ch…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a8cab8f5cebfd90a10d5ba92097fd9b Henning Ohst deposited Zeitschriftenschau Fachwissenschaft (Mnemosyne 76.3, 2023/WS 135, 2022), Forum Classicum 66, 2023, 148–151 in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1857782/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 01:06:30 -0400 More detailed discussions on Thomas Biggs: Sown Men and Rome’s Civil Wars. Rethinking the End of Melinno’s Hymn to Rome (Mnemosyne 76.3) and Gerlinde Bretzigheimer: Intertextualität und Intratextualität in Ausonius’ Epitaphia heroum (Wiener Studien 135).

]]> 0 4474f46bc66f74e3b9303c66fea4c9aa Thijs Porck deposited “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899) in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856285/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:11:30 -0400 Thijs Porck, “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899)”, in Language Use, Usage Guides, and Linguistic Norms, ed. Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas & Janet Grijzenhout (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 107-129.

]]> 0 750f4e7570af97ea097e08e66e803e73 Alaric Hall deposited Leeds Studies in English: A History in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856258/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:08:29 -0400 Despite the epistemological importance of the scholarly journal, few thorough histories of individual academic journals have been written, especially of journals in the arts and humanities. This article uses both archival material and oral histories to construct a multifaceted history of Leeds Studies in English (LSE) from the beginning of its…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e8eeb32e1cf0632d093f7eaa09243e1 Christian Cooijmans deposited Hostile in Tent: Reconsidering the Roles of Viking Encampment across the Frankish Realm in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855714/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:10:01 -0400 When considering the establishment of overseas viking encampments, some of the most detailed and vivid contemporary descriptions of this activity originate from the Frankish realm, a region which nevertheless remains precariously positioned in wider comparative investigations of the viking world. To address this imbalance, this chapter assembles…[Read more]

]]> 0 1055884aa8235678afa77e7ce88695b6 Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Some Aspects of Decorations on Early Christian Lamps from the Central Balkans, in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855374/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:09:53 -0400 This paper aims to examine models by which symbolism of light and lamp in
the Mediterranean region was manifested in the early Christian visual culture,
i.e. lamp representations from Central Balkans. Lamps with Early
Christian representations are considered in the context of transculturality
of Late Antiquity, as well as political and…[Read more]

]]> 0 16d62487bd81a28a58274503642efeb1 Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Fish symbol and maritime motifs on late antique lamps from Central Balkans in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855369/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:09:06 -0400 Elements of Christian visual culture appeared in
various media in monumental and applied art during the late
antique period, from painted decoration in the catacombs,
through funerary monuments, to utilitarian objects such as
jewellery and lamps. The paper analyses the symbolic meaning
of fish and maritime motifs in the context of the late…[Read more]

]]> 0 896e7df7eb8e877669e51d84fac7034d Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Visual Representations of Saint Menas and Saint Thecla: Objects and Sources in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855364/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:08:41 -0400 On a number of pilgrimage objects from Late Antiquity, St Thecla, a highly revered saint, also known as Thecla the Protomartyr, is shown accompanied by St Menas, whose tomb in Egypt was the pilgrimage centre associated with healing miracles. The saintly couple appear in ad bestias compositions or in a simplified variant as two saints with a cross.…[Read more]

]]> 0 68f7dc0fc78adbd9f1e276911b7faa99 Kordula Wolf deposited Tra terra e mare – una premessa in the group Medieval Mediterranean https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853859/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:29:44 -0400 This preface introduces in the main issues of the volume.

]]> 0 91b0c07286d318b682d4098232ccb286 Kordula Wolf deposited Tra terra e mare – una premessa in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853858/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:29:22 -0400 This preface introduces in the main issues of the volume.

]]> 0 ff5dbc64958c316c10cafbbc41aa003b Henning Ohst deposited Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity. Form, Tradition, and Context, hg. v. Berenice Verhelst u. Tine Scheijnen (2022), Plekos 25, 2023, S. 327–339 in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850332/ Tue, 27 Jun 2023 02:23:48 -0400 The volume under review is based on the premise that there is no real dialogue between Greek and Latin studies on the literature (and especially on the poetry) of Late Antiquity, at least not a dialogue as intense as with regard to the earlier, 'classical' literature. The reason for this is not least the problem that mutual dependencies between…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9c448db9c6534f20278934e895ff4c6 Henning Ohst deposited Zeitschriftenschau Fachwissenschaft (Mnemosyne 75.6, 2022 u. Hermes 150.4, 2022), Forum Classicum 66, 2023, S. 62–68 in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847375/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:23:47 -0400 More detailed Discussions on J. van Waarden: Leafing through Pliny with Sidonius. Sidon. Ep. 1.1, Plin. Ep. 1.1, 1.2, and 1.5, and Satire, Mnemosyne 75/6, 2022, 1021–1043 (62–64) and G. Wöhrle: Fragmente im
Überfluss. Zur Problematik eines philologischen Begriffs, Hermes 150/4, 2022, 385-404 (64–67).

]]> 0 4ba5d22cf6472fba4cfab4b1c4b4f330 Mark Beumer deposited Hygieia. Identity, Cult and Reception in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846901/ Tue, 23 May 2023 02:26:12 -0400 This article examines the Greek goddess Hygieia by looking at her identity, cult status in the ancient world and subsequent scholarly reception. Should she be viewed as a goddess or a personification? By studying Hygieia primarily as a concept of health within ancient medicine, as well as a personification and a goddess, it will be argued that…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2f18a7decfb6836118e59b12d37cb4f Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846896/ Tue, 23 May 2023 02:25:34 -0400 In this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation r…[Read more]

]]> 0 df0e3302217ccf0dc05bf6c4fc5d3f62 Mark Beumer deposited The Foundation of Anthropology to Ritual Studies in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846890/ Tue, 23 May 2023 02:24:45 -0400 The present paper aims to investigate the role of anthropology in the development of Ritual Studies as an inter-disciplinary platform, with a focus on ritual dynamics by using a historiographic description, focusing on thetransition of Greco-Roman to Christian culture. This study attempts to shed light not only on the contributionof anthropology…[Read more]

]]> 0 b177bc3c9b2742fa54a7c9eff552194c Henning Ohst deposited A Companion to Isidore of Seville, hg. v. Andrew Fear u. Jamie Wood (2020), Plekos 24, 2022, S. 65–77 in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843575/ Thu, 04 May 2023 02:24:08 -0400 The Companion assembles a total of twenty chapters in English throughout, which - as explained in more detail in the Introduction by the two editors - are thematically divided into three sections ("parts"): "Isidore's Contexts" (chapters 1-4, including the "Introduction"), "Themes in Isidore's Works" (chapters 5-13), and "Transmission andReception…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8c3f27d3216c4bd6da292bae3743064 Dominik Waßenhoven deposited Sancta mater. Entstehungsumstände und Darstellungsabsichten der Vita Adelheids von Vilich in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1835399/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 02:25:27 -0500 Die Vita der heiligen Adelheid von Vilich, geschrieben um 1056/57, wird vor dem Hintergrund ihres Entstehungskontextes interpretiert.

]]> 0 3751f195fd3fe285b1f36a38a1d22752 Dominik Waßenhoven deposited Lotharingien und das ostfränkische Reich. Verschwägerung als politisches Mittel? in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1835397/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 02:24:52 -0500 Lotharingia and East Francia: Marriage as a Political Instrument? – Kings and nobles arranged marriages for their daughters in order to form or strengthen po- litical alliances. Historical writers of the tenth century interpreted the relations of the Ottonian kings Henry I and Otto I with the Lotharingian dukes Giselbert and Conrad the Red in t…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc2ebd6e3951ccb4502073a035709f8d Albrecht Diem deposited The Pursuit of Salvation. Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833817/ Sat, 11 Feb 2023 02:23:39 -0500 The seventh-century Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines (Someone’s Rule for Virgins), which was most likely written by Jonas of Bobbio, the hagiographer of the Irish monk Columbanus, forms an ideal point of departure for writing a new history of the emergence of Western monasticism understood as a history of the individual and collective attempt to p…[Read more]

]]> 0 0cbe1fe06d2c7d6070d5ef15d38eae90 Katherine Cross deposited Moving on from ‘the Milk of Simpler Teaching’: Weaning and Religious Education in Early Medieval England in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1832286/ Thu, 02 Feb 2023 02:23:54 -0500 This chapter is published within Early Medieval English Life Courses: Cultural-Historical Perspectives, ed. Porck and Soper. Please email me if you would like to cite it and I will send you a PDF with page numbers.

]]> 0 4502f7bcb289410bffabb9ad1666f82a Nathan Gibson deposited Cross-Communal Scholarly Interactions in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829669/ Sat, 14 Jan 2023 02:24:52 -0500 This chapter traces cross-communal interactions in the fields of medicine, mathematics and what the historical actors called the natural sciences. It discusses various modern interpretations of those interactions and engages with a number of historical problems researchers face when studying the extant sources. After a substantive survey of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0599d7b7034845e81a7a7c434762a14a Jake Stattel deposited Legal Culture in the Danelaw: a Study of III Æthelred in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1825433/ Wed, 07 Dec 2022 02:23:58 -0500 Viking invasions and settlements left substantial legacies in late Anglo-Saxon England, attested in legal texts as a division between areas under Dena lage and those under Ængla lage. But how legal practice in Scandinavian-settled England functioned and differed from Anglo-Saxon law remains unclear. III Æthelred, the ‘Wantage Code’, provides criti…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4d32efbebca788c546ab80c25280743 Nikos Tsivikis deposited Messene: a Bibliography on the Archaeology and History of the city v.01/12/2022 in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1824820/ Sat, 03 Dec 2022 02:23:40 -0500 A work-in-progress, this is an extended bibliography on Messene covering the period from 1831 and up to today. It includes the excavation reports and archaeological/historical publications of ancient and byzantine Messene in Messenia, SW Peloponnese. Please send via mail or message any corrections, suggestions and additions.

]]> 0 0bc2fcae0e9c64e374bd9ccb7ed8ad71 Foteini Spingou deposited Classicizing Visions of Constantinople after 1204: Niketas Choniates' De Signis in the group Medieval Mediterranean https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1824188/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 02:23:52 -0500 The article focuses on one of the most famous accounts of the events of 1204: the De Signis by Niketas Choniates. It demonstrates how Choniates constructed a (semi)fictional account of the assaults against the Byzantine culture and identity through a constellation of symbols and passages drawn from the Greek Classics. The article comprises three…[Read more]

]]> 0 492d8edaab7e14fbbe1202da84d98e32 Christian Cooijmans deposited Annales Fontanellenses in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1820093/ Sat, 05 Nov 2022 02:23:38 -0400 The ninth-century Annales Fontanellenses are a concise set of monastic annals composed by the community of St Wandrille, situated along the lower reaches of the river Seine. Covering the 840s and 850s, their contents are concerned with a relatively brief but highly tumultuous period in the history of the Frankish realm, representing an eclectic…[Read more]

]]> 0 1b18dd0510467b313a27b667b6a9e051 Howard Williams deposited Rethinking Wat's Dyke: A Monument's Flow in a Hydraulic Frontier Zone in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816954/ Sun, 09 Oct 2022 02:27:28 -0400 Britain’s second-longest early medieval monument – Wat’s Dyke – was a component of an early medieval hydraulic frontier zone rather than primarily serving as a symbol of power, a fixed territorial border or a military stop-line. Wat’s Dyke was not only created to monitor and control mobility over land, but specifically did so through its careful a…[Read more]

]]> 0 28e15740a35be7e6f85041413789d1ad Howard Williams deposited Drawing the Line: What's What's Dyke? Practice and Process in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816952/ Sun, 09 Oct 2022 02:26:48 -0400 Often neglected and misunderstood, there are considerable challenges to digital and real-world public engagement with Britain’s third-longest linear monument, Wat’s Dyke (Williams 2020a). To foster public education and understanding regarding of Wat’s Dyke’s relationship to the broader story of Anglo-Welsh borderlands, but also to encoura…[Read more]

]]> 0 46fd23fce0e425905dc3e0b2269078ff Howard Williams deposited What's Wat's Dyke? Wrexham Comic Heritage Trail in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816950/ Sun, 09 Oct 2022 02:26:09 -0400 We hope this comic heritage trail for Wrexham helps introduce you to Britain's third-longest ancient monument

]]> 0