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Roughly fifteen to eighteen Tárkány toponyms have been documented in the tenth-century Hungarian settlement territory in the Carpathian Basin. Some of these have survived up to the present in the name of a settlement or a field name, some... more
In the ninth century rulers from Denmark like Hrœrekr and Guðröðr got control over the western part of Frisia. Around 850 they were appointed by the Frankish kings to look after their interests in general and to defend the coastal areas... more
In the ninth century the shores of the North Sea were harassed by Danish pirates. It is understandable that medieval chroniclers were rather more interested in their targets, yet something can be told about the origin of these... more
Besides glosses and other textual annotations, early medieval Latin manuscript commonly feature technical signs, annotation symbols and sigla that reflect readership or provide a framework for interpretation and use. The early medieval... more
Il progetto Sicily in Transition è nato dalla collaborazione delle Università di York e di Roma Tor Vergata, con il pieno ap-poggio della Soprintendenza ai BB. CC. AA di Palermo. La finalità della nostra ricerca è quella di analizzare,... more
The Western Puerco region of east-central Arizona figured prominently in foundational studies of the Early Pueblo period (AD 650-950) yet remains on the periphery of recent research. This article presents new survey and chronometric data... more
This paper demonstrates both in argumentation and terminology, how the cohesion and self-identification of the communities as well as the delineation from others are determined by the understanding of religious belonging. The idea of... more
Final copy of article sent to The Heroic Age for publication Haimo, the master of the monastic school at Saint-Germain (Auxerre) never wrote a treatise on anger. Understanding his thoughts about anger, therefore, requires... more
Основание Киева, Кий, Щек, Хорив и Лыбедь. Нестор и "Повесть временных лет". Поляне и греческая версия появления скифов у Геродота (История, книга IV Мельпомена, 8-10).
Old Norse skaldic poetry is the only major tradition of vernacular praise-poetry of the Germanic Middle Ages. According to the Icelandic medieval sources, the first skalds were active around the end of the ninth century, in a time... more
Entry in Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books, eds. Bill T. Arnold and H. G. M. Williamson (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press) pp. 531-534.