Emma– An old French name of Germanic origin, at first a short form of compound names. Popular in medieval England, has become more popular in general society since the 1970s. Rebecca– Latin form of the HebrewRebekah. In the Old Testament, the wife of Isaac and mother to Jacob ...
In his work on the common good in late medieval philosophy, Matthew Kempshall distinguishes between two main senses of the common good of the city: the life of virtue, as permitted by life in a political community, and the mere utility of this community, taken as the peace and prosperity ...
Bosona HD 206610 Βοσωνα [Greek] the early medieval name of Bosnia 11 Botein δ Ari al‑buṭayn [Arabic] the little belly 1,3,4,5,7,9,10,11 Brachium σ Lib bracchium [Latin] the arm 4,11 Bubup HD 38283 bubup [Boon Wurrung] the child 11 Buna HD 16175 buna [Amharic...
and take "a good strong look at medieval literature, dram& and music" through courses at the University of Toronto's School of Medieval Studies. "I've never wanted to or been able to single out one specialization,and cast the others aside or reduce their impor- tance. I don't think my...
it is possible that a comprehensive sampling of the country could reveal genetic ties to the Ugric speakers. Furthermore, analyses of early medieval aDNA samples from Karos-Eperjesszög cemeteries in Hungary have revealed the presence of mtDNA haplogroups with East Asian provenance testifying for...
This is very true. Without the handmaiden concept, “medieval Europeans would surely have had less scientific knowledge, not more.”When your world is random chaos, when you believe you are evolved algae, when you scream that there is no meaning, no reason to live, and that all is without...
Buddhism, on the other hand, has mo-nopolised the realm of death rituals since at least the beginning of the medieval pe-riod (twelfth–sixteenth centuries). Its specialisation on religious services for thedead went so far that Japanese Buddhism is sometimes labelled“funeral Buddhism”(sōshiki...