Category: Journal
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A Hapsburg Gun
A HAPSBURG GUN There is a particular satisfaction in having in the Museum’s armory an object which belonged to the Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol (1529-I 595), one of the greatest collectors of all time. His gun (fig. I), a purchase shown this month in the Room of Recent Accessions, is a worthy addition to the…
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An analysis of a double-barreled Wheellock pistol made for Emperor Charles V by the gunsmith Peter Peck.
Lachlan Fahy This firearm is a Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol made by the German gunsmith Peter Peck on behalf of the holy roman emperor Charles V. The firearm is an exceptional example of an early wheellock pistol and represents the technological advances of the renaissance as well as the power and authority of its owner Charles…
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CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDIEVAL ARTILLERY IN THE LIGHT OF WRITTEN SOURCES FROM BOHEMIA AND POLAND
PIOTR STRZYŻ Artillery appears in Central Europe at the end of the 14th c.1 and it starts playing a more significant role only in the next century. In the Kingdom of Bohemia it became more widespread as early as during the Hussite Wars of 1419-1436, while in the territory of the Kingdom of Poland and…
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Byzantine Army: The Concise 10th-11th century AD Imperial Infantry and Cavalry Soldier
John Dandoulakis INTRODUCTION One of the main reasons why Byzantium has always attracted that much of attention, both in popular culture and in academia, is probably the fact that it is inadvertently seen in comparison and contrast to its immediate predecessors: ancient Rome and ancient Greece. With good reason, in terms of such attention, the…
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Bulletin of the International Institute for Central Asian Studies #35
2023 CULTURAL STUDIES Vladimir RuzanovBronze Age Metallurgy in the Central Asian Interfluve ……………………………………………………………………7Bakhtiyor AbdullaevOn the Problem of the Eilatan Culture in Ancient Fergana …………………………………………………………….18Rustam Suleymanov, Akmal Muhammadiev, Kholiyor OynazarovNew sites of the early Iron Age in the upper reaches of the Sherabad-Darya ………………………………….35Mark Dickens, Valerii KolchenkoMedieval Christian Gravestones from Krasnaya Rechka ………………………………………………………………..41Mark DickensWhere was the…
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The Tarleton Flags
Bruce Baky Military Collector & Historian, vol. 58, no. 2 (Summer 2006), 118-119. Early in 1780 with almost the entire Virginia Continental Army besieged in Charleston, South Carolina, Virginia sent about 350 soldiers as reinforcements commanded by Colonel Abraham Buford. After arriving within 40 miles of Charleston, Buford learned that Charleston had surrendered. While returning…
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Archaeological Investigations at the Historic Portland and St. Pierre Sites in the Lower Yazoo Basin, Mississippi
Ian W. Brown 1974 AbstractsTwo historic sites, one aboriginal and the other European. are dealt with in this manuscript. Portland is believed to have been a Tunica Indian site occupied at the turn of the 18th century. while St.-Pierre was a French fort dating from 1719 to 1729~ The history of the region. the excavations…
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Die Waffensammlung im Schützenmuseum
Die Handfeuerwaffensammlung im Schützenmuseum umfasst über 400 Objekte. Im Treppenhaus vom EG zum 1. OG wird die Entwicklung der Schweizer Ordonnanzwaffen bis zum heutigen Tag chronologisch dargestellt. The handgun collection at the Rifle Museum comprises over 400 objects. The staircase leading from the ground floor to the first floor presents a chronological presentation of the…
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Biblical Translations and Cross-cultural Communication – A focus on the Animal Imagery
INTRODUCTION Ancient translations of the Hebrew Bible constitute an interesting field for exploring cross-cultural encounters, since the translation process inevitably involves a significant variation of nouns, concepts and contents, that create a kind of ὁὂeὀ ‘ἴὁὄdeὄlἳὀd’ ἴetweeὀ cultuὄeὅ, wheὄe elemeὀtὅ ὁf continuity and discontinuity can be more clearly observed. These transformations are particularly evident in…
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Bestiary Imagery in Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth Century
Adam S. Cohen Abstract: In medieval bestiaries, knowledge about animals and their behavior is regularly given a Christian moral interpretation. This article explores the use of imagery related to the bestiary tradition in three Hebrew books made around the year 1300, focusing especially on the richly decorated Rothschild Pentateuch (Los Angeles, Getty Museum MS 116).…
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Biblical Creatures The Animal as an Object of Interpretation in Pre-Modern Christian and Jewish Hermeneutic Traditions
Interfaces – A Journal of Medieval European Literature Volume 5, 2018