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In the early Viking Age, during the late 8th century and most of the 9th, Norse society consisted of minor kingdoms with limited central authority and organization, leading to communities ruled according to laws made and pronounced by local assemblies called things. Lacking any kind of public executive apparatus—e.g. police—the enforcement ...
Woodcut of a medieval king investing a bishop with the symbols of office, Philip Van Ness Myers, 1905. The Investiture Controversy or Investiture Contest (German: Investiturstreit, pronounced [ɪnvɛstiˈtuːɐ̯ˌʃtʁaɪt] ⓘ) was a conflict between the Church and the state in medieval Europe over the ability to choose and install bishops (investiture) [1] and abbots of monasteries and the ...
According to Jewish tradition the Great Assembly (Hebrew: כְּנֶסֶת הַגְּדוֹלָה, romanized: Kəneset haGədōlā, also translated as Great Synagogue or Synod) was an assembly of possibly 120 scribes, sages, and prophets, which existed from the early Second Temple period (around 516 BCE) to the early Hellenistic period (which began in the region with Alexander's conquest in ...
Roman military tactics evolved from the type of a small tribal host-seeking local hegemony to massive operations encompassing a world empire. This advance was affected by changing trends in Roman political, social, and economic life, and that of the larger Mediterranean world, but it was also under-girded by a distinctive "Roman way" of war.
“The performance of the song should be framed to the public not as a protest song but as a song of Black affirmation, perseverance and inspiration,” said Gerald Early, the pop culture essayist ...
McGready, James. "A Short Narrative of the Revival of Religion in Logan County, In the State of Kentucky, and the adjacent settlements in the State of Tennessee, from May 1797, until September 1800. New York Missionary Magazine, and Repository of Religious Intelligence, February 1803. Miller, Perry. The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century.
Both Prince William and his son Prince George served special roles in the coronation of King Charles III. As a page of honor, George, 9, held his grandfather's ceremonial robe — along with three ...
Just about four years ago, at the height of COVID, we lost photographer and activist Corky Lee. His work is the subject of a recent book, "Corky Lee's Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic ...