Universiteit Gent
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Il presente articolo si propone di inquadrare la raccolta di poemi di Barhebraeus e Bar Ma'dani del ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Orientale 298 nell'ambito della sua tradizione manoscritta, illustrandone alcune... more
Bar ‘Ebroyo’s Chronicle is preserved in a remarkably high number of manuscripts in comparison to the other historiographical works in Syriac, which all survive in just one copy. The textual tradition of the Chronicle therefore allows a... more
Syrian Orthodox historians adopted a compilatory method in the composition of their chronicles. The practice of selecting, excerpting and structuring previous material in a new work is thus a cue of the way the authors intended to provide... more
L'historiographie belge n’avait pas établi jusqu’à présent de bilan chiffré concernant les homicides attribués à la résistance durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Théâtre d’un embrasement de violence à l’été 1944, l’arrondissement... more
At the end of the sixteenth century, the development of printing technology sparked a knowledge revolution featuring an unprecedented distribution and integration of texts, images and maps. Thorough research of these texts and maps,... more
Although unlimited maritime access was advantageous, medieval seaports and port cities were often incorporated into serving a capital city’s economy by providing merchants with a transport system. Consequently, these outports had a... more
Hoeke en Monnikerede dankten hun ontstaan en groei aan de bloei van Brugge. Beide kleine steden kenden tijdens de late middeleeuwen een parallelle ontwikkeling van geleidelijk verval als voorhaven. Na 1500 ging de evolutie in deze steden... more
The Middle High German Kaiserchronik (Book of the Emperors) is the first extensive world history in the vernacular in Germany. The paper will show how models of history writing are adapted in the text in order to follow a didactic purpose... more
(English below) Gennem historien har ’eksperter’ forsøgt at give råd til deres samtidige. Et af deres foretrukne emner var rigtig og forkert adfærd, ofte med fokus på samspillet med det modsatte køn. Råd om godt og succesfuldt liv var... more
This paper argues that in vernacular didactic poetry scholars who research the formation of high medieval nobilty can find valuable information on the normative and legitimizing processes by means of which nobility presented itself as a... more