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Dear Colleagues,
I hope that this e-mail finds you well. I am wondering if anyone is able to help with a research question I am encountering, namely, if there a way to find out the approximate value of thirty thousand écus in today's money. The sum in question is mentioned in Jacques Doublet, Histoire de l’abbaye de S. Denys en France (Paris : J. de Heuqueville, 1625) in which he describes the value of a ruby placed by Louis IX in the Crown of Thorns, "estimé de plus de trente mil escus."
Any suggestions would be appreciated! If anyone has any ideas, please contact me off-list at: talia.zajac
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Dear colleagues,
I am trying to find a source for a passage about the Third Crusade in a Rus' chronicle, which states that angels took bodies of the German crusaders to Heaven three days after they were killed in battle. Can anyone help? Also, can anyone recommend a work on angels in crusading literature in general? If such a work does not exist, what are good places to look for angels playing role in crusades? I know e. g. that an angel commands Charles to convert Spain in Rolandslied, and I am looking for other examples.
Thank you,
Yulia Mikhailova
Here's a new book review published by our colleagues over on H-Buddhism on a book about being Buddhist in Medieval China.
Dear colleagues,
I am a PhD student at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (but currently in Berlin), working on Orthodox/Catholic intermarriage in Kievan Rus. I was wondering whether I might ask whether any one would know where I could look to find a list of extant manuscripts of Hermann of Reichenau's Continuatio Sangallensis.
I am very puzzled by a reference I have found in A. V. Nazarenko's Drevniaia Rus na mezhdunadodnyikh putiakh (Moscow, 2001), p. 515 which cites a newly-discovered manuscript source on the marriage of the Saxon noblewoman Oda of Stade and the Rus prince
Has anyone else received an email from Review of History and Political Science? It seems to be a scam journal, run by an outfit called the American Research Institute for Policy Development. See: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/09/questionable-oa-publisher-launches-with-a-clever-website-and-52-new-journals/
This was the email I received from them:
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Review of History and Political Science is a peer-reviewed international journal published by American Research Institute for Policy Development. The RHPS is