The aim of the Polish Returns NAWA Programme is to allow prominent Polish scientists to return to their country and take up employment at Polish higher education institutions, scientific units or research institutes. The Programme will create optimal conditions for...
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The project “Symbolic Resources and Political Structures on the Periphery: Legitimization of the ELITES in Poland and Norway, c. 1000 – 1300” focuses on the forms and means of symbolic power the members of the political elites in the two...
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It was with great sorrow that we learned of the death of Prof. Henryk Samsonowicz. Born in 1930, Henryk Samsonowicz was an eminent historian, an expert on the history of the Middle Ages and an important man of the University...
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27 V (4.45 Warsaw time): Enno Friedrich (Universität Graz), Pindaricus Fortunatus? How well did Venantius Fortunatus (Gaul, 6th c. CE) know Pindar (Greece, 5th c. BCE)? Venantius Fortunatus, late antique author of occasional poems, letters, saints’ lives and one hagiographical...
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Ewa Wipszycka's Late Antique Seminar On 13 May at 4.45 pm (Warsaw time) Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholms Universitet) will present a paper The Reckoning of the Soul: The development of the motif of the Demonic Tollhouses in late antique Eastern...
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"In 6th century Italy, saints were said to perform an unusual number of water miracles. Paleoclimatological data from a stalagmite may reveal why. In early medieval Italy (then a troubled peninsula transitioning from the collapse of Roman rule) a group...
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