"The version of the Rule of St Augustine used at the Abbey of St Victor began with the command to love God above all things and one's neighbor as oneself. Not surprisingly, then, love was a pervasive
Albert of Saxony was one of the great logicians of the Middle Ages, on a par with William Ockham and John Buridan. The Twenty-Five Disputed Questions on Logic treat of central issues in logic, both th
Grauballe Man was about 34 years old when he met his death. He died from a deep cut to the throat. His right shinbone was also fractured. He undoubtedly suffered a violent end - he was executed - and
Space is one of the newest areas of archeological study. The spaces used by people through time and the spaces left empty tell much about the make up of society. How people construct spaces or use tho
By hoard, scholars mean at least two coins, or at least one coin and another object of value, that seem to have been deliberately buried or lost together. They include hoards that have been added to o
Wood is scarce in Greenland, as it was from about 950-1450, the tenure of the Norse in Greenland. As a result, these people buried their dead in layers of clothing. When crowberry and dwarf willows se
In this study of the poetry of Du r-Rumma (ca. 696-ca. 735), who stood "at the end of a long poetic tradition which, for the most part, expressed the ethos and intellectual preoccupations of the pre-I
William Boyce: A Tercentenary Sourcebook and Compendium is published in celebration of the three-hundreth anniversary of the birth in 1711 of England's leading eighteenth-century musician. It is the f
Carling (linguistics, Lund U., Sweden), collaborating with Werner Winter and Georges-Jean Pinault, has compiled a dictionary of Tocharian A, an Indo-European language of Central Asia. This impressivel
Johanson and Bulut (Johannes Gutenberg U., Mainz, Germany) present a collection of papers based on contributions to two international conferences convened in Mainz, in December, 1998, and January, 200
From burial data collected from four coastal sites in the Pontic (northern) region of the Black Sea, Petersen (Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Black Sea studies, U. of Aarhus) challen
