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Early Medieval History

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Early Medieval History is the study of the period in European history from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the High Middle Ages around the 11th century, focusing on social, political, cultural, and economic developments during this transformative era.
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Early Medieval History is the study of the period in European history from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the High Middle Ages around the 11th century, focusing on social, political, cultural, and economic developments during this transformative era.
Tierra de Cáceres conserva uno de los conjuntos más elocuentes y a la vez más enigmáticos del occidente peninsular: centenares de tumbas excavadas directamente en la roca granítica. Diseminadas en colinas suaves, afloramientos de... more
SINOPSIS: El espejo del Quattrocento El hallazgo más fecundo del Volumen 9 de Educación Transdisciplinar es de orden hermenéutico, y es también el que vuelve al libro tan oportuno para el presente. El siglo XV no se lee aquí como... more
Kości zwierzęce i przedmioty kościane stanowią jedne z najczęściej występujących pozostałości związanych z przebywaniem człowieka na danym obszarze. Zjawisko to jest obserwowane przez archeologów analizujących tego typu materiały już od... more
Ceramika lošticka należy do charakterystycznych wyrobów późnośredniowiecznego garncarstwa Europy Środkowej. Jej nazwa wywodzi się od miejscowości Loštice, położonej nad rzeką Třebůvką w pobliżu Ołomuńca na Morawach, gdzie funkcjonowało... more
Around the Battle of Vaslui (1474-1475). Reflections on the Relations between the Kingdom of Hungary, Moldavia and Wallachia. The events in late autumn 1474 and winter 1475 connect and illuminate, in a particular fashion, the distinctive... more
This article is devoted to the analysis and interpretation of the iconographic sculpture of the so-called Światowid from Zbruch. The aim of the article is to concisely summarize the state of research on this monument and to consider the... more
Во второй половине III в. н.э. происходит угасание и размывание основных черт саргатской культуры. Существующая схема историко-культурного развития в западном ареале Тоболо-Иртышья, выстроенная с учетом последовательной сменяемости... more
The first page from a contribution to the popular history magazine DAMALS, as part of a special issue by the Tübingen DFG project "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages," offering an overview for the general... more
L’Archivio Disegni della Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio (SSABAP) di Roma custodisce un piccolo nucleo di disegni originali di Maria Barosso dedicati agli interventi di scavo e restauro condotti dalla Regia... more
(As delivered at Bristol CMS PGR Conference 2026) The conversion of the Sueves from Arianism to Catholicism in sixth-century Gallaecia represents a unique intersection of religious power and cultural performance within the early medieval... more
Il curatore e tutti gli autori del volume desiderano ringraziare sentitamente il Magnifico Rettore, professore Lucio d'Alessandro, e tutto il Comitato scientifico della Collana, per aver voluto accettare di inserirvi la presente opera. Un... more
Zwięzła analiza tezy Marka Jankowiaka o przebiegu granicy dwóch stref w handlu niewolnikami słowiańskimi w oparciu o Ibn Haukala.
In the Middle Ages, just like today, the oak was among the most widespread tree genera in the area between the Drava and Sava rivers. Therefore, the oak is very often mentioned in the written sources of the time, especially in connection... more
This article challenges the hypothesis, accepted by the overwhelming majority of historians and linguists, that the toponym Transylvania is the Latin translation of the original Hungarian term, Erdély. Although the terms are semantically... more
La domesticazione del cavallo (Equus caballus) è stata tradizionalmente interpretata attraverso il paradigma monocentrico: un singolo epicentro geografico — identificato ora nella cultura di Botai (Kazakhstan settentrionale, ~3500 a.C.),... more
Any reader of scholarship on the ancient and early medieval world will be familiar with the term 'Germanic', which is frequently used as a linguistic category, ethnonym, or descriptive identifier for a range of forms of cultural and... more
Il saggio evidenzia come nel campo dell’oreficeria la distinzione tra arte “bizantina” e “longobarda” sia spesso problematica, poiché artigiani, modelli artistici e oggetti circolavano tra i due mondi. Il nucleo di gioielli e manufatti... more
After Rome’s power faded in western Europe, gold still spoke. Small gold coins moved through the ports, markets, and royal courts of the early Middle Ages. They crossed the Channel from Francia. They passed through Kent, London, York, and... more
This article studies the social practices of the late antique Roman aristocracy based on the letters of Ennodius addressed to Maximus. The article discusses the tradition of exchanging gifts, as well as epistolary communication,... more
For centuries, archaeologists have excavated the soils of Britain to uncover finds from the early medieval past. These finds have been used to reconstruct the alleged communities, migration patterns, and expressions of identity of... more
This paper presents the genealogical evidence for Saint Patrick's family network, grounding it in two independent epigraphic sources that anchor his grandfather Potitus to a specific territory in the Bristol Channel region. The POTITII... more
This paper presents a forensic reading of Saint Patrick's Confessio as a structured legal deposition rather than a conventional spiritual autobiography. By identifying Patrick with Mansuetus, the junior signatory at the First Council of... more