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High-resolution isotopic data link settlement complexification to infant diets within the Roman Empire
Carlo Cocozza and others
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PNAS Nexus
PNAS Nexus, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2025, pgae566, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae566
Published: 14 January 2025
... is properly cited. Abstract Our study explores the potential relationship between infant feeding practices and settlement complexity in the Roman Empire through high-resolution Bayesian-modeled stable isotope measurements from incremental dentine. We compiled isotopic data from permanent first molars...
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Why Westphalia Still Matters: Territorial Rights under Empire
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Benjamin Mueser
International Studies Review, Volume 26, Issue 2, June 2024, viae024, https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viae024
Published: 14 May 2024
..., territorial autonomy was not only consistent with the complex hierarchy of the Holy Roman Empire but was fundamental to preserving it. To understand the role that territorial rights played in the empire, it is necessary to examine how they emerged from compromises between the states and empire, which led...
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Pausanias, the first travel writer: a historical perspective
Helena C Maltezou and Androula Pavli
Journal of Travel Medicine, Volume 29, Issue 5, July 2022, taac066, https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taac066
Published: 25 May 2022
.../pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Pausanias historical traveller geographer ancient Greece Roman Empire ‘From here the high road to Delphi becomes both steeper and more difficult for the walker. Many and different are the stories told about Delphi, and even more...
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The Ecology of Exchange: The Monetization of Roman Egypt
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Colin P. Elliott
The American Historical Review, Volume 126, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 900–921, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab360
Published: 09 November 2021
... of Roman Egypt is, therefore, a critical historical case-study of broader geographic, temporal and thematic interest—one which enables scholars to better understand how ecology intersects with cultural, economic and political embeddedness. Egypt Roman Empire Monetary Environment/Landscape/GIS/Geography...
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Musical diplomacy in a divided city: the Lassus-Mayrhofer manuscripts
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Barbara Eichner
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Early Music
Early Music, Volume 48, Issue 1, February 2020, Pages 55–74, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caz091
Published: 06 May 2020
... both kinds (with consecrated bread and wine) offered a short-lived hope of religious compromise. choirbook presentation manuscript musical diplomacy confessionalization Holy Roman Empire Benedictines Regensburg Augsburg Orlande de Lassus The repertory of the Regensburg choirbook further...
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‘The Dear Old Holy Roman Realm, How Does it Hold Together?’ Monetary Policies, Cross-cutting Cleavages and Political Cohesion in the Age of Reformation
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Oliver Volckart
German History, Volume 38, Issue 3, September 2020, Pages 365–386, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghaa012
Published: 05 March 2020
...Oliver Volckart General histories of the Holy Roman Empire in the age of the Reformation draw a picture of a ‘bewildering variation of economic and social conditions, legal boundaries, and jurisdictions, spiritual and temporal’. 36 In fact, diversity began with the status of its...
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Proto-constitutionalism—The Imperial Constitution in the Electoral Capitulations and Basic Law Guarantees
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Wolfgang Burgdorf
German History, Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2018, Pages 415–431, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghy043
Published: 18 June 2018
... Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract The electoral capitulations of the Old German Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, were formulated by the electors and the elected Emperors had to commit themselves to their observance...
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The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation as an Order of Public Peace
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Siegrid Westphal
German History, Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2018, Pages 401–414, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghy042
Published: 05 June 2018
... Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Ultimately, the idea of the Holy Roman Empire as a system of Public Peace offers a clear answer to the question of what held the Empire together. At the same time, however, it also shows...
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Nuremberg’s Noble Servant: Werner von Parsberg (d. 1455) between Town and Nobility in Late Medieval Germany
Ben Pope
German History, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2018, Pages 159–180, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghx135
Published: 31 January 2018
... nobility princes Holy Roman Empire service alliance identity The noble and steadfast knight Werner von Parsberg was then called to lead the third division, and he was entrusted with the banner of the noble town of Nuremberg. 1 Werner von Parsberg’s relationship with Nuremberg directly...
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The Thirty Years War
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German History, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2018, Pages 252–270, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghx121
Published: 13 December 2017
.../about_us/legal/notices ) Thirty Years War Peace of Westphalia war violence diplomacy Holy Roman Empire The Thirty Years War (1618–1648) remains a defining event in early modern European history generally, and in German history more particularly. It is still widely considered to mark major political...
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The Town Chronicle of Johannes Hass: History Writing and Divine Intervention in the Early Sixteenth Century
Martin Christ
German History, Volume 35, Issue 1, 1 March 2017, Pages 1–20, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghw141
Published: 21 December 2016
.... Johannes Hass lived in a region that was both part of the Holy Roman Empire and a side land (Nebenland) of the Bohemian crown. 9 The religious idiosyncrasies of Upper Lusatia (Oberlausitz), the region that contains Görlitz, are echoed in Hass’s piety. Born into an artisan...
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The Reformation of the Soundscape: Bell-ringing in Early Modern Lutheran Germany
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Philip Hahn
German History, Volume 33, Issue 4, December 2015, Pages 525–545, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghv065
Published: 13 November 2015
.... This article traces these developments in the Holy Roman Empire from the 1520s until the end of the seventeenth century on the basis of church ordinances and sermons delivered at the inauguration of new bells. It reconstructs the transformation of the religious soundscape and its perception by contemporaries...
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Rural Autonomy and Popular Politics in Imperial Villages
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Beat Kümin
German History, Volume 33, Issue 2, June 2015, Pages 194–213, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghv057
Published: 15 May 2015
...Beat Kümin Holy Roman Empire rural communities early modern history political culture collective freedom republicanism Ohne Zweifel wird der Gegenstand dieser Abhandlung vielen Lesern beym ersten Anblick sehr geringfügig vorkommen: denn was kann wohl merkwürdiges von einigen wenigen Dörfern...
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Intervening Against Tyrannical Rule in the Holy Roman Empire during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Patrick Milton
German History, Volume 33, Issue 1, March 2015, Pages 1–29, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghu114
Published: 16 February 2015
...Patrick Milton The rehabilitation of the Holy Roman Empire among historians since the Second World War has been a common theme in historiographical overviews of the last fifteen years. 1 The positive reappraisal of the Old Reich, defending it against accusations of chronic moribundity...
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Two Worlds Become One: A ‘Counter-Intuitive’ View of the Roman Empire and ‘Germanic’ Migration
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Guy Halsall
German History, Volume 32, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 515–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghu107
Published: 11 November 2014
... derived, ex post facto, from the contingent fact that some Germanic-speaking barbarian groups finished their wanderings on the shores of the Middle Sea. The traditional assumption of a natural barbarian desire to conquer the Roman Empire lacks any empirical foundation. This vision has been...
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Erudite and Honoured Artisans? Performers of Body Care and Surgery in Early Modern German Towns
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Annemarie Kinzelbach
Social History of Medicine, Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2014, Pages 668–688, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hku037
Published: 30 May 2014
.... identity-building knowledge-transfer surgeons' families professional transformation Holy Roman Empire The 1574 group portrait of Syben Geschwohrne und Schawmeister der Wundtartzney (Seven Master Jurymen and Examination Masters of Surgery) shown in Figure 1 is included in a volume labelled...
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Gombert, Thiebault, Crecquillon, Canis, Payen and the chapel of Charles V
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Mary Ferer
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Early Music
Early Music, Volume 42, Issue 2, May 2014, Pages 191–206, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/cau027
Published: 19 May 2014
... of maître de la chapelle and maître des enffans during various stages of Charles’s reign. Charles V Flemish Chapel Canis Crecquillon Gombert Thiebault dit Pickart Payen Holy Roman Empire The court of Charles V (1500–1558), King of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor and Duke of Burgundy ( illus.1...
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Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire
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Beat Kümin
German History, Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 131–144, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghn080
Published: 01 January 2009
... (hardback). © The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the German History Society. All rights reserved. 2009 Abstract This article reviews six essay collections and one monograph on late medieval and early modern political culture in the Holy Roman Empire. Following a general...
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Perpetual Light: Catholics
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Erin Lambert
Published: 23 November 2017
... had fractured, and the Holy Roman Empire was never again to be united by faith. In the imperial funerals in Vienna and Prague, however, ceremonial objects and polyphonic motets transformed resurrection’s ancient promises of reunion and triumph over decay into prophecies for the future of empire...
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Introduction
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André Tchernia
Published: 06 October 2016
...This introductory chapter provides a brief overview of the importance of trade in the Roman Empire. The author explores literary attitudes towards the idea of trade current at the time. Until the end of the first century ad , poets, politicians, agricultural writers, and philosophers...
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