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  Listen to this post with original music by Peter Lawson ~~~ My name is Peter Lawson, and I’m a Pacific Northwesterner studying historical musical instruments in Edinburgh, Scotland. ~~~ I hail from a city called Woodinville in the Greater Seattle metropolitan area, on the evergreen shores of the Puget Sound against the backdrop of the […]
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In the single surviving manuscript now in Trier, this treatise is anonymous. However, it was probably written by the elderly archbishop Hraban Maurus for the young Carolingian king Lothar II around 855. The treatise is a précis of Vegetius’s De re militari, Books I and II. In considering the purpose of the text, it is worth […]
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NILA will have a recess during the rest of December as the end of the semester approaches. We will continue reading and discussing native/indigenous languages of America next term from mid-January. Please remain attentive to our announcements by signing in to our mailing list: nila@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk NILA Organisers       Dec 6, 2024
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