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• Byzantine
  ...er the Turks or the West, nor could it unite the divided powers of eastern Europe to resist the Turkish onslaught. ...iev, History of the Byzantine Empire (Madison, Wisc., 1952). The Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 4.1–2, ed. J.M. Hussey (Cambridge 1966).
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• Papyrus
  Papyrus was replaced in Europe by the cheaper, locally produced products [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa ...in 1752. Before that date, the only papyri known were a few surviving from medieval times.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus]
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• Carthusian
  The best preserved remains of a [[Middle Ages|medieval]] [[Charterhouse]] in the UK are at [[Mount Grace Priory]] near Osmotherley ...buildings are in use as part of a local college. Inside the building is a medieval wall painting, alongside many carvings and wooden beams. Nearby is the rive
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• Tapestry
  Tapestry reached a new stage in Europe in the early fourteenth century AD. The first wave of production originated ...e wool tapestries which were sold to decorate palaces and castles all over Europe. Few of these tapestries survived the French Revolution as hundreds were bu
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• Superstition
  To European medieval [[scholars]] the [[word]] was applied to any [[beliefs]] outside of or in o ...ent religion of the practicer. As an example, during the Christianizing of Europe, [[pagan]] symbols to ward off evil were replaced with the Christian cross.
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• Charity
  ...t of charity may offer to [[pray]] for the benefactor; indeed, in medieval Europe, it was customary to feast the poor at the funeral in return for their pray
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• Quentin Skinner
  ...odern Political Thought'' 1978, the 'pre-Humanist' ''dictatores'' of later medieval Italy, through [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], and more recently (in ''Liberty be ...an Heritage, Volume I: Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
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• Transportation
  ...roadbeds of crushed stone underneath ensured that the roads kept dry. The medieval [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate Caliphate] later built [https://en ...pedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen Shinkansen] in 1964, high-speed rail in Asia and Europe started taking passengers on long-haul routes from airlines.[https://en.wik
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• Empire
  ...h c.), at the weak end, the [[Holy Roman Empire]] (8th c.–19th c.), in its Medieval and early-modern forms, and the [[Byzantine Empire]] (15th c.), that was a ...erlord. The Romans successfully imposed [[Latin]] upon Western continental Europe, but less successfully in Britain and in Western Asia; in the Middle East,
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• Intellectual History
  ==Europe and the West== ...rl]]. Engaged with the intellectual prominence of fascism and socialism in Europe during in the 1930s and 1940s, which they saw needed both repudiation and s
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• Academic
  ...and the modern university. There are at least two models of academia: a [[Europe]]an model developed since ancient times, as well as an [[United States|Amer ...stic]] thought in the first [[Medieval university|universities in medieval Europe]].
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• History
  ...al writing (for example, "medieval historiography during the 1960s" means "medieval history written during the 1960s"). Historiography can also be taken to mea ...rical traditions and sophisticated use of historical method in ancient and medieval [[China]]. The groundwork for professional historiography in [[East Asia]]
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• Jewish philosophy
  ...ant differences, both religious and philosophical, distinguish ancient and medieval from much of modern Jewish thought, the subject matter of Jewish philosophy == Medieval Jewish philosophy ==
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• Theology
  ** In some [[medieval]] Greek and Latin sources, ''theologia'' (in the sense of "an account or re ...recent decades also been taken on by a number of academic institutions in Europe, such as the [[Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies]] and [[Bhaktivedanta Colleg
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• Neuroscience
  ...ation.[5] Elsewhere in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages medieval Europe], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesalius Vesalius] (1514-1564) and [https: ...o-Martinez, J. M. (2002). "Neuroscience in al-Andalus and its influence on medieval scholastic medicine", Revista de neurología 34 (9), p. 877-892.
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• Meister Eckhart
  ...ry Suso, he has gained a large following in recent years. In his study of medieval humanism, [[Richard Southern]] includes him along with [[Saint Bede the Ven ...y some of continuing his ministry in anonymity. However there is no single medieval source giving evidence of this suspicion.
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• Logic
  The traditions outside Europe did not survive into the modern era: in China, the tradition of scholarly i During the medieval period, major efforts were made to show that Aristotle's ideas were compati
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• Vatican
  Since medieval times the episcopal see of Rome has been recognized as a [[sovereignty|sove ...Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
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• Anger
  ===Medieval era=== ...st to human will which is "conditioned by the [[intellect]]."[18] A common medieval [[belief]] was that those prone to anger had an excess of yellow bile or ch
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• Alchemy
  ...a) appears in the West from the twelfth century onward in reference to the medieval quest for a means of transmuting base metals into gold, for a universal cur ...lose their identity. One encounters the same belief in central and western Europe: certain Hermetists and alchemists (such as Nicolas Flamel and his wife, Pe
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