Dynamics of #Literacy in #MedievalEurope
Studies in Honour of #MarcoMostert
Edited by A.J. van den Hoven van Genderen, Rob Meens, and Carine van Rhijn
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Step back in time for Medieval Europe Week! 🏰✨
Unravel the original true-crime mystery with 'The Return of Martin Guerre'—a tale of identity theft in 16th-century France. 🕵️♂️ Then, get grounded in the grit of the 1100s with 'Daily Living in the Twelfth Century.'
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Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark https://arstechni.ca #maritimearchaeology #nauticalarchaeology #medievalEurope #Archaeology #shipwrecks #Science #science
Prima noctis -- right of a lord to lay with a woman on her first night of marriage to someone else if he was her lord -- was never actually a thing. At least, there's no evidence of it. #history #medievaleurope
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New to the Middle Ages? Start here—explore the foundations of medieval Europe! 🏰📚 medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/medi... #MedievalEurope
New to the Middle Ages? Start here—explore the foundations of medieval Europe! 🏰📚 medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/medi... #MedievalEurope
The History Files: Polabii
Polabii: the #Polabians migrated in the 600s AD to settle along the #Elbe river basin, along the River #Weser, & northwards up to what is now the #Danish border.
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#history #historyfiles #poles #polabii #poland #pomerania #CentralEurope #medievaleurope #Slavs
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The History Files: Commonwealth of Poland
#Commonwealth of #Poland: the #UnionofLublin established what is generally known as the #CommonwealthofPoland, more correctly labelled the United Commonwealth of the Two Nations.
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#history #historyfiles #poles #jagiellan #ukraine #lithuania #medievaleurope
The History Files: Jagiellan Poland
Jagiellan Poland: the #UnionofKreva (Krewo) was agreed between Jadwiga, #Poland heiress, & Jagiello of #Lithuania as the only certain way to halt #NorthernCrusade attacks on Lithuania.
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#history #historyfiles #poles #Jagiellans #medievaleurope #crusades
The History Files: Anjou-Hungary Poland
Anjou-Hungary #Poland: upon the extinction of the eligible #Piast line the transfer of power was peaceful via the daughter of Wladyslaw I to her son, Louis the Great of #Hungary.
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#history #historyfiles #kingdom #poles #Anjou-Hungary #Anjou #medievaleurope
The History Files: Duchy of Mazovia (Restored)
Duchy of Mazovia (Restored): after gaining #Belz in 1442, #Mazovia was reunified in 1454-1459, with a final piece being #Gostynin, added after the death of Margareth of Raciborz.
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#history #historyfiles #poland #poles #westernpolans #duchies #medievaleurope
The History Files: Duchy of Mazovia (Belz)
Duchy of Mazovia (Belz): this was a short-lived division of #Mazovia which was independent only for the lifetime of its sole ruler between 1446 and 1442.
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#history #historyfiles #poland #poles #westernpolans #medievaleurope #duchies #Belz
The History Files: Duchy of Rawa
Duchy of Rawa: Mazovian sub-division happened in 1264 when the duchy of #Czersk was set up, and yet another happened after the reign of Boleslaw II in the form of #Rawa.
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#history #historyfiles #poland #poles #westernpolans #medievaleurope #mazovia #duchies
The History Files: Duchy of Mazovia (Czersk)
Duchy of Mazovia (Czersk): Konrad I in 1234 subdivided an area of #Czersk for his son, Boleslaw I, who succeeded him as duke of #Mazovia even though a precedent was established.
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#history #historyfiles #poland #poles #westernpolans #medievaleurope #duchies
The History Files: Duchy of Mazovia (Plock)
Duchy of #Mazovia ( #Plock ): subdivisions occurred here across 200 years which created several tiny statelets, and Konrad I in 1234 created one around Plock for his son.
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#history #historyfiles #poland #poles #westernpolans #slavs #mazovia #medievaleurope
The document still raises questions about authority, loyalty, and the balance of power in medieval Europe.
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The History Files: Duchy of Mazovia
Duchy of Mazovia (Poland): on 28 October 1138, and not for the first time, #Poland was divided into principalities: Great Poland, #Mazovia + Kujavia, Silesia, and Sandomierz.
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#history #historyfiles #poles #WesternPolans #centraleurope #slavs #medievaleurope
The History Files: Mazovians (Slavs)
Mazovians (Slavs): the #Masovian dialect of #WestSlavic is distinctive from majority #WestPolans in modern #Poland, bearing similarities with the #Kashubian group of West Slavics.
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#history #historyfiles #poles #mazovia #CentralEurope #medievaleurope
The History Files: Mazovia (Poland)
Mazovia: an eastern borderland territory which also included western-central parts of Prussia, probably formed in the ninth/tenth century as one of many small states here.
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#history #historyfiles #poland #poles #mazovia #prussia #medievaleurope #WesternPolans
The History Files: Duchy of Poland
Duchy of Poland: by the mid-tenth century the Piast dynasty controlled a central Polish duchy which, on occasions, could also refer to itself as a kingdom.
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#history #historyfiles #poland #poles #duchy #piast #medievaleurope #WesternPolans
The History Files: Western Polans
Western Polans: by the AD 700s the Western Polans were occupying the Warta river basin in modern Poland's western-central Greater Poland region.
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#history #historyfiles #polans #poland #poles #WesternPolans #CentralEurope #medievaleurope #Warta #GreaterPoland
The History Files: Poland
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Poland: modern #Poland was formed out of various post-First World War conflicts, but the country goes back over 1500 years.
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#history #historyfiles #polans #WesternPolans #medievaleurope #earlyeurope #ancienteurope #archaeology #slavs
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How the Wound Man Healed Medieval Europe
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Kara Veba: Avrupa’yı Titreten Salgın
#blackdeath #pandemi #bubonicplague #historyfact #medievaleurope #tarih #salgın #keșfet #keşifrotası #fyp #reels #genelkültür #ilginç #gezi #seyahat
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The History Files: Pechenegs
Pechenegs: these were one of the main enemies of the early #Magyars, with whom they fought and won, and with defeat for the Magyar resulting in outwards migration.
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#history #historyfiles #pechenegs #tribes #PonticSteppe #medievaleurope #turkics #nomads #Rus
The History Files: Khazars
Khazars: these semi-nomads created the most powerful polity to emerge from the break-up of the Western #Gokturk #khaganate, one which can be referred to as #Khazaria.
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#history #historyfiles #khazars #PonticSteppe #FirstTurkicEmpire #medievaleurope #tribes
