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How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions

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Series Libro 39 - Fonts Històriques Valencianes
L'any 1344 es promulgaven les Ordinacions fetes per lo molt alt senyor en Pere terç, rey d'Aragó, amb les quals es regulava el funcionament de tots els oficials reials. En realitat es tractava de la traducció catalana de les Leges palatinae, que el mateix monarca va revisar i corregir. Al segle XVIII, el manuscrit s'envià des de l'Arxiu Reial de Barcelona a la cort de Madrid, i restà desaparegut ... Leer más

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Series series The History of the Book in the West: A Library of Critical Essays
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The Non-Judicial Confinement and Abduction of Women in England, c.1170-1509

de Gwen Seabourne ...

The non-judicial confinement of women is a common event in medieval European literature and hagiography. The literary image of the imprisoned woman, usually a noblewoman, has carried through into the quasi-medieval world of the fairy and folk tale, in which the 'maiden in the tower' is one of the archetypes. Yet the confinement of women outside of the judicial system was not simply a fiction in ... Leer más

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A History of Emotions

Edición de Stephanie Downes, Andrew Lynch, Katrina O’Loughlin ...

Series series Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History
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Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions brings together leading scholars in medieval, early modern, eighteenth-century, and Romantic studies. The assembled essays trace continuities and changes in the emotional register of war, as it has been mediated by the written record over six centuries.Through its wide selection of sites of utterance, genres of writing and
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de Nicholas Vincent ...

Series series Penguin Monarchs
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A New History of the Anglo-Saxon World

de Mark Atherton ...

Series series Library of Medieval Studies
During the tenth century England began to emerge as a distinct country with an identity that was both part of yet separate from 'Christendom'. The reigns of Athelstan, Edgar and Ethelred witnessed the emergence of many key institutions: the formation of towns on modern street plans; an efficient administration; and a serviceable system of tax. Mark Atherton here shows how the stories, legends, ... Leer más

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The War on the West

Ordinacions de la Casa i Cort de Pere el Ceremoniós

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