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This is Chapter Nine of 'Ecclesiastical Lordship'. Among other topics, it goes into some detail about the origins of suit of mill as a customary feudal obligation in England, before and after the Conquest.
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This volume fills the need for a new critical edition and linguistic study of John Kananos' account of the siege of Constantinople in 1422. New research on the manuscripts has produced a new stemma codicum and shown that the oldest witness of this narrative, Vat. gr. 579 (ff. 355r - 364v), was written in Constantinople and belonged to the prolific scribe Phlamules Kontostephanos, who also provided the copy with a title in which the name of John Kananos is mentioned for the first time. The philological approach adopted here explains contradictions among the manuscripts and Kananos' peculiar...
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Archaeological diggings in a medieval house in Sibiu/Hermannstadt, Small Square, no. 24.
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The Russian-American poet, Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) developed a theory of poetic practice and poetic energy, as well as one on (self)-translation. Brodsky endeavoured to apply his views on his own work as a translator (or elaborated on them while assessing translations), sometimes with other poets and translators as his co-workers. His ideas, to be found in his essays, addresses and interviews, combined with the close-reading approach and the method of the analysis of poetry designed by Yuri Lotman, create a background helpful to the understanding his poetry. This paper...
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This article explores what it means to write from the perceived margins, focussing on the movement between “peripheral” mother-tongue Maltese and “central” English, the chosen language of her narrative. Drawing from the Bakhtinian concept of heteroglossia and Gustavo Pérez Firmat’s concept of language act as an act of identity, this paper explores the translingual writer’s role as a cultural translator, suggesting that, unlike the monolingual writer, the translingual’s multilingual background gives access to different linguistic systems of conceptualising the surrounding milieu. The paper...
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This article is devoted to the everyday life of Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania. The following areas of activity of the everyday life of the ruler are discussed: his frequent trips to each of his estates (mobility of the court), his intensive interaction with people (arriving and departing guests and envoys, their reception, and the solemn and expensive feasts organised), the gifts given, court pastimes (musicians, jesters, dwarves, and hunting), and news of their health. The realia of the grand duke's everyday life are examined in the context of the models of the everyday life,...
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