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Grand Duke Géza, his son Vaik (Stephen I) and other Hungarian kings were most often present in the political center of the kingdom – medium regni. The most important royal settlements, the oldest monasteries and the first bishop¬rics were... more
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      Kingship (Medieval History)Medieval TownsArpadian AgeMedieval castles
Hungary was a large kingdom and the Arpads did not only stay in the medium regni but also traveled to the surrounding parts of the country. In addition to the main royal residences, bishoprics or monasteries, they also used their courts... more
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      Kingship (Medieval History)Arpadian AgeBenedictine MonasticismMedieval Kingship
¿Es posible acercarse a la Edad Media a través de Juego de Tronos? ¿Pueden observarse trazas medievales en la saga de novelas Canción de Hielo y Fuego y en la serie de televisión de HBO? A lo largo de las páginas de este libro se da... more
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      Medieval HistoryChivalry (Medieval Studies)Medieval WarfareMiddle Ages
Stephen Baxter and John Blair, ‘Land Tenure and Royal Patronage in the Early English Kingdom: a Model and a Case Study’, Anglo–Norman Studies 28 (2006), 19–46
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      Feudalism and LordshipAnglo-Norman historyDomesday BookMedieval Law
Éste es un estudio en torno al arquetipo del rey sabio en la literatura política de la Antigüedad Tardía y la Alta Edad Media. En él se aborda el discurso de las virtudes políticas propias de la Realeza sapiencial, parte fundamental de la... more
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      WisdomLate AntiquityMedieval LiteracyHistory of Political Thought
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      Medieval HistoryAnglo-Saxon Studies (History)Anglo Norman and Angevin EnglandMedieval Kingship
Boniface of Canossa is a figure of great importance to the political and military history of eleventh century Italy. Modern historiography has almost universally argued that Boniface gained his power through a close relationship and... more
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      HistoryHigh Middle AgesMedieval HistoryMedieval Studies
There are two objectives behind this article. First, it seeks to trace down the pedigree of a theory described in scholarly discourse as the 'ethnogenesis model'. As is often believed, the theory originally was, essentially, an innovative... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryEthnohistoryEthnic Studies
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      LiturgyMedieval ArchitectureGothic architectureMedieval Liturgy
Argues that elective kingship, rather than being a source of weakness, was an appropriate and effective system of succession for a highly regionalized economic and political structure.
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      Medieval GermanyMedieval Kingship
В центре данной работы стоят взаимоотношения власти и народа в их институциональном оформлении, а именно проблематика соотношения власти правителя, действующей общественной нормы и ее носителей. На широком конкретно-историческом... more
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      ReligionAnthropologyHistorical AnthropologyIdeology (Anthropology)
This short study is a first attempt to apply some tools which have been adopted for the analysis of temporal dynamics in the Late Medieval Period to the early medieval world. The study is also inspired by the recent works of... more
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      Political SociologyRoman HistoryComplex Systems ScienceHistorical Archaeology
El culto a Carlomagno practicado en la catedral de Gerona a finales de la Edad Media (1345-1484) constituye un hecho sorprendente y fascinante al mismo tiempo. Sorprendente porque es el único de estas características que se constata en la... more
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      Medieval HistoryHistory and MemorySocial and Collective MemoryCommemoration and Memory
Las muchas y variadas actuaciones y decisiones políticas que Jaime I de Aragón protagonizó a lo largo de su extenso reinado fueron polémicas ya entre sus contemporáneos. No llama la atención, entonces, que los balances historiográficos... more
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      Medieval HistoryMedieval Iberian LiteratureMedieval StudiesMedieval Iberian History
Las ceremonias de la realeza adquirieron un importante peso político y propagandístico en la Baja Edad Media castellana. En el presente artículo, analizamos la escenografía desarrollada en tales actos a través de testimonios literarios... more
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      Medieval ArtVisual ArtsMedieval illuminated manuscriptsCeremony, Ritual and Performance
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      Political ScienceMedieval Sermon StudiesMedieval SpiritualityMedieval Kingship
Las relaciones entre realeza, caballería y guerra fueron intensas y multifacéticas durante la Edad Media, por lo que pueden ser estudiadas desde diferentes ópticas. Una de las más significativas e interesantes es la de la génesis y... more
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      Chivalry (Medieval Studies)Medieval WarfareLIbro de alexandreCantar de mio Cid
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      Medieval LiteracyKingship (Medieval History)Court CultureMedieval Spain
Miguel García-Fernández, Diana Pelaz Flores y Ricardo Pichel, “Galicia e El-Rei ou como reinar desde a distancia: comunicación política arredor de dous novos privilexios rodados de Xoán II”, Madrygal. Revista de Estudios Gallegos, 23... more
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      Galician StudiesMedievalismIberian StudiesMedieval Iberian History
En la política de promoción de las monjas mendicantes que desarrollaron los reyes de Castilla se percibe una tipología de “fundaciones en relación” con mujeres. Alfonso X y Pedro I colaboraron con sus amantes, Mayor Guillén y María de... more
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      Gender StudiesWomen's StudiesMedieval HistoryWomen's History
Liturgie et royauté dans les monarchies asturienne et léonaise (711-1109) Resume L'époque wisigothique marque en péninsule Ibérique l'élaboration d'une liturgie royale notamment pour le sacre, dont la pratique est attestée à partir de... more
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      Medieval SpainMedieval LiturgyMedieval Kingship
Thomas DESWARTE Un vent de liberté sous Alphonse VI de León (1065-1109) Les premiers fueros et la fin du « colonat » Les fueros sont traditionnellement présentés comme emblématiques d'une société de frontière « organisée pour la guerre »... more
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      Medieval SpainMedieval KingshipFueros medievales
The Castilian Franciscanism born closely linked to the Crown. The data we have are scarce and often legendary, but they allow us to draw a first scheme of links and interests. We analyze the performances of Fernando III, closely related... more
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      Medieval HistoryWomen's HistoryMedieval urban historyMedieval Iberian History
In the early Middle Ages, monarchs spent a lot of time in the saddle as they moved from one castle, palace, court, monastery or bishop’s house to another. The ruler’s travel and personal presence were a normal and important way of... more
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      Kingship (Medieval History)Arpadian AgeMedieval Kingshiphistory of Hungarian Kingdom
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      Cultural HistoryHistorical AnthropologyMedieval LiteratureMedieval History
Title page, summary and contents page of my doctoral thesis
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      ViolenceResistance (Social)Kingship (Medieval History)High Medieval Ireland
Scholars of the Albigensian Crusade in 13th century Occitania have tended to focus on the dissident Cathars as the only explanation for the crusade, where they have used them as weapons in their own contemporary political and religious... more
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      Chansons De GesteProsopographyKingship (Medieval History)The Plantagenets
Resumo O trabalho analisa a construção da imagem do rei cristão nos Decem Libri Historiarum de Gregório de Tours (c.538-594), com ênfase no relato da conversão de Clóvis (481-511) e na atribuição de santidade a Gontrão (561-592).... more
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      Early Middle Ages (History)Medieval KingshipMerovingian Gaul
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      Kingship (Medieval History)Medieval KingshipMedieval Political Ideology
Proposals welcomed for a proposed comprehensive history of monarchy aimed for Routledge's 'Histories' series. See attachment for details, proposals due by 1 December 2015.
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      Queenship (Medieval History)Kingship (Medieval History)Kingship and systems of ruleKingship (Egyptology)
literature-whether heroic poems, prose annals, genealogies, law codes, or religious poems and tracts-by asking questions about the ideological "work" a poem or a prose text does in its cultural time and place. While this approach does not... more
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      Anglo-Saxon StudiesHeroic PoetryRoyal propagandaLoyalty
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      Courts and Elites (History)Political RepresentationCourt historyRepresentation
During the eleventh century various Italian nobles, churchmen and cities rebelled against Imperial rule. To counter this, the Salian emperors enacted various measures to assert their authority including the construction of relationship... more
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      HistoryLegitimacy and AuthorityMedieval LiteratureHigh Middle Ages
This article offers a sympathetic appraisal of the career of Donnchad mac Briain, an over-looked eleventh-century king of Munster. In addition, it is argued that his association with the Crown of Ireland and position as a genuine and... more
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      Medieval HistoryMedieval StudiesEarly Medieval HistoryEarly Medieval Ireland
Druga połowa XIV wieku to dla Królestwa Polskiego okres, w którym wśród wielu nowych zjawisk obserwujemy również powiększanie się składu dworu monarszego i związaną z tym rozbudowę struktur ceremonialnych. Główni uczestnicy dworskiego... more
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      Byzantine StudiesHistory of the Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthJagiellonowieThe Jagiellons
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      Kingship (Medieval History)Late Medieval HistoryLate Medieval Bohemia and Central EuropeMedieval Kingship
Presented at the Harlaxton 2018 Symposium. The working title of my thesis is "The Distribution of Royal Patronage to the Gentry in the Minority of Henry VI, 1422-1437." It is an investigation into how - in a time so invested in personal... more
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      PoliticsLate Medieval English HistoryKingship (Medieval History)Social Network Analysis (SNA)
Delivered at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University in 2003.
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      Medieval HistoryAnglo-Norman historyMedieval KingshipThe Norman Conquest
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      Kingship (Medieval History)Medieval Spanish LiteratureAlfonso X el SabioExempla
¿Es posible acercarse a la Edad Media a través de Juego de Tronos? ¿Pueden observarse trazas medievales en la saga de novelas Canción de Hielo y Fuego y en la serie de televisión de HBO? A lo largo de las páginas de este libro se da... more
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      ArtMedieval HistoryMedieval WarfareMiddle Ages
Summary of my PostDoc project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (2018-2021)
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      Medieval HistoryMedieval StudiesKingship (Medieval History)Bohemia
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      British LiteratureBritish HistoryMedieval StudiesShakespeare
Whatever their privileges in theory, in practice the military orders were not independent of secular powers, nor of the local ecclesiastical authorities, the bishops and archbishops. In order to survive and to pursue their vocation of the... more
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      Medieval HistoryKnights TemplarMilitary OrdersTeutonic Knights
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      Medieval illuminated manuscriptsMedieval IconographyMedieval Kingship
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      AngerEmotionsMedieval QueenshipClemency
Please see the attached call for papers for Kings & Queens 5, which will be held at Clemson University (USA) 8-9 April 2016. Please note that proposals are due by 1 Sept 2015.
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      Queenship (Medieval History)Kingship (Medieval History)Kingship and systems of ruleKingship (Egyptology)
... late medieval Britain. Sovereign Fantasies ex-amines romance narratives of Arthur from the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in the context of changing political and cultural identities in late medieval Britain. I argue that ...
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      SovereigntyArthurian StudiesGeoffrey of MonmouthMedieval Wales
The fundamental argument of this paper is that the charter of 1014 to the arimanni of Mantua was designed to balance or even limit the growing power of the Canossan family. Three charters were issued to the arimanni and the cives of... more
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      HistoryLegitimacy and AuthorityMedieval HistoryItalian Studies