Check if you have access via personal or institutional login From the nineteenth century onwards, historians described the Middle Ages as the 'cradle' of the nation state-then, after World War II, ...

Iceland has a long and rich literary tradition. With its 380,000 inhabitants, the country has produced many great writers, ...

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Medieval Europe, spanning the 5th to 15th centuries, was a time of castles, knights, and fortified towns. This era left ...

In reality, many of the calamities commonly associated with the medieval period are better attributed to the upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, considered the most catastrophic in European ...

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Despite the book’s subtitle, not all the examples selected are medieval. Most are drawn from Western Europe in the late Middle Ages, but several extend well into the 17th and 18th centuries. One ...

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Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East. In October 2024, Hyperfine was granted CE approval in Europe for its latest ninth-generation AI-powered software. This most recent software approval ...