one of the great events in the history of iran is the emergence and spread of islam within the early hegira centuries.  the result of the interaction between islam and iran was transformations in many cultural dimensions and indices. this research states the problem of the islamization of iranian lifestyle andthe culture of purity and impurity, in particular.in this article,interpretive-analyti...

Leprosy is one of the most notorious diseases in history, widely associated with social stigma and exclusion. This study builds on previous work to reevaluate medicohistorical evidence for relation leprosy. achieved by isotopic palaeopathological analyses adolescent skeletons (10–25 years old) from Anglo-Scandinavian (10th–11th centuries AD) parish cemetery St. John at Castle Gate Norwich (East...

Church education boasts a rich history of achievements. European church (referred to as Catholic) was already present at the turn 9th and 10th centuries in Poland end 11th (schools educating future members clergy). In Poland, collapse marked by communist system (1945–1989), dynamic revival possible thanks democratic change 1989. At present, Catholic schools, i.e., schools run legal entities oth...

A group of 1st-graders who were administered a battery of reading tasks in a previous study were followed up as 11th graders. Ten years later, they were administered measures of exposure to print, reading comprehension, vocabulary, and general knowledge. First-grade reading ability was a strong predictor of all of the 11th-grade outcomes and remained so even when measures of cognitive ability w...

To complement discussions about vegetation history and climate variations in south Greenland, especially during the Norse settlement, we developed a sedimentological multiproxy approach to study 4300-year-old lacustrine core comprising pollen analysis, NPPs physical measurements (magnetic susceptibility, density, grain size), geochemical analyses (X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffraction, elementa...

The article is a review of the book by Croatian historian Neven Budak «Croatian history from 550 to 1100» (Budak, Neven. Hrvatska povijest od 550. do 1100. Zagreb, Leykam international, 2018. 352 р.). Budak’s an innovative conceptual synthesis early medieval Croatia taking full account latest achievements in and archeology. From new theoretical methodological positions, examines processes trans...

Introduction . In investigations of our science project features historical development the boundary territory South-East Chernigov and South-West Ryazan lands are considered. Materials methods More than 450 monuments XI-XIV centuries known on territory. Among most archaeological objects complex Lavy Bystraya Sosna River is important. late 11th c. this became center own rural area trade craft a...

The Temnić inscription is the oldest surviving written record of Slavic discovered on territory Serbia (the region Temnić), however, original provenance unknown. tablet with (ca. 20 x cm) was made limestone absent from area where it found, and thus plate could have been brought any other region. dates to end 10th-11th centuries, while records Cyrillic script in Serbia, Bosnia Croatia are at lea...