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fromMedievalists.net
6 days ago

Previously Unknown Medieval Chronicle Discovered - Medievalists.net

A previously unknown 8th-century Maronite chronicle (dated 712–13 CE) offers early Christian perspective on Arab-Islamic expansion and Late Antique religious-political change.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

An inner duty': the 35-year quest to bring Bach's lost organ works to light

The best fictional detectives are famed for their intuition, an ability to spot some seemingly ineffable discrepancy. Peter Wollny, the musicologist behind last week's world sensational revelation of two previously unknown works by Johann Sebastian Bach, had a funny feeling when he chanced upon two intriguing sheets of music in a dusty library in 1992. His equivalent of the Columbo turn, from mere hunch to unravelling a secret, would take up half his life.
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