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Verschlagwortet: medieval studies

Under the weather: Medieval diseases with low mortality and high contagion

  As the world is facing a more and more preoccupying, if not straightforward frightening rise in COVID-19 infections, media either encourages us to ‘go medieval’ (in positive way) to fight the current pandemic, or they draw on historical knowledge...

CfA: The Dynamic Middle Ages II PhD and post-doctoral training school. The first phase: Russia, Moscow 7th – 10th October 2014

Following the first international doctoral and postdoctoral school on ‘The Dynamic Middle Ages’ in Moscow in 2012, the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Department of History of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) will organize a...

„Verachtet ist der nackte Mann“. Die literarische Funktion von Kleidung in den Íslendingasǫgur und Íslendingaþættir

1000 Worte Forschung: Dissertation LMU München, abgeschlossen im Juli 2012 Das Textkorpus der Isländersagas umfasst ungefähr drei Dutzend in altisländischer Sprache verfasste literarische Prosatexte von unterschiedlicher Länge, die über die Geschehnisse auf Island von den ersten Siedlern (ca. 870 n.Chr.)...

Leeds anyone? An invitation to session 112 at the International Medieval Congress 2013 (1-4 July 2013)

Session 112 “Medieval Letters and Letter-Collections (1000-1500): A Pleasurable Reading?!” of this year’s International Medieval Congress in Leeds is organised by the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. It is devoted to medieval epistolography and addresses the IMC’s special thematic strand “Pleasure” on...