Historical Studies of British Isles

Crimean Tatars were deported by Stalin from Crimea to Central Asia in 1944. This paper focuses on the Crimean Tatars’ cultural revival, beginning in 1989 following their mass return to their homeland. We analyse the interaction of the Crimean Tatars with other ethnic groups both in Central Asia during the deportation…

This article examines the apparent practice among monks and regular canons in England before the Dissolution of dropping their family surnames on admission/profession, and adopting instead a new ‘monastic byname’, derived from a place name (toponym) or, by the late fifteenth century onwards, from a saint’s name (hagio…

• DAVID EWAN THORNTON

The purpose of the paper is to examine in detail the alleged submission by Welsh, Scottish and Scandinavian rulers to the English king Edgar at Chester in 973, and particularly the claim made in a number of Anglo‐Norman chronicles that these rulers rowed Edgar up and down the River Dee as part of this submission. All…

• DAVID EWAN THORNTON

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Crewyd a chyhoeddwyd y fersiwn digidol hwn o'r cylchgrawn yn unol â thrwydded a roddwyd gan y cyhoeddwr. Gellir defynddio'r deunydd ynddo ar gyfer unrhyw bwrpas gan barchu hawliau moesol y crewyr. The National Library of Wales has created and published this digital version of the journal under a licence granted by the…

This article evaluates ordination lists preserved in bishops’ registers from late medieval England as evidence for the monastic orders, with special reference to religious houses in the diocese of Worcester, from 1300 to 1540. By comparing almost 7,000 ordination records collected from registers from Worcester and nei…

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Following the 1918 annexation of Bessarabia to Romania, the Gagauz minority remained disconnected from centers of knowledge because of linguistic and institutional barriers. In this context, Mihail Çakir, an Orthodox priest of Gagauz origin, manifested a rare capacity of introducing the Gagauz people to Romanian- and…

• IOANNIS GRIGORIADIS

Lady Mary Wroth is an innovative and unconventional figure both in terms of her personal background and herliterary production within the sixteenth century social and political context. She is the author of the first sonnetsequence written by a woman, the producer of the first prose romance by a female pen, and one of…

This paper examines the "naming strategy" of the Second Dynasty of Gwynedd which dominated Welsh politics during the ninth and tenth centuries.It is argued that as the dynasty established itself in Gwynedd and then expanded its power through most of Wales, it adopted the personal names characteristic ofthe various ear…

Silah başta olmak üzere çeşitli yöntemlerle zor kullanarak can ve mal emniyetini ortadan kaldıran eşkıyalık, kamu otoritesinin sarsıldığı dönemlerde görülen bir fenomendir. Bu itibarla tarihin farklı dönemlerinde farklı coğrafyalarda merkezi otoritenin güçsüz düştüğü bunalımlı zamanlarda eşkıyalık hareketlerinin ortay…

• ÖMER KIRMIZI

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