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Anna of Antioch was one of those medieval women whose life makes the map of the 12th century suddenly look smaller and more connected. Born into the world of the Crusader states, she was the daughter of Raynald of Chatillon, Prince of Antioch and later lord of Oultrejordain, a figure
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Anna of Antioch
Anna of Antioch was one of those medieval women whose life makes the map of the 12th century suddenly look smaller and more connected. Born into the world of the Crusader states, she was the daughter of Raynald of Chatillon, Prince of Antioch and later lord of Oultrejordain, a figure
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The woman conventionally known as the Princess of Hassleben was buried in Thuringia in one of the most spectacular elite graves of the Germanic world in what archaeologists call the Roman Iron Age. She lived beyond the formal frontiers of the Roman Empire, yet her burial makes plain that the
Bishop Teodomiro of Iria Flavia
Bishop Teodomiro of Iria Flavia was an early medieval churchman in north-western Iberia, active in Galicia in the first half of the ninth century and traditionally associated with a discovery that changed the religious map of Europe. During his episcopate, a tomb found in Galicia was identified as the burial
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Prince Andrew of the ĂrpĂĄd dynasty belongs to that fascinating stretch of medieval Hungarian history where kingship, kinship, and frontier politics all met in one place. The ĂrpĂĄds were the ruling house of Hungary for centuries after the Magyar conquest of the Carpathian Basin, and by the 13th century their
Bishop Peder Winstrup
Peder Winstrup was a 17th-century Lutheran bishop of Lund, born into the educated clerical world of the Danish kingdom and remembered today for two rather different reasons. In life he was a churchman, scholar, political operator, and advocate for learning in a borderland province. In death he became one of
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