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Medicine for the Material World
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
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Información, Cultura y Sociedad, 2002 Se reseña brevemente la actividad del hispanista francés Raymond Foulché-Delbosc y se describe la colección que logró formar; con especial énfasis en los ejemplares adquiridos por la Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina.
María Alejandra Plaza
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Boreas, EarlyView.This study investigates the species composition and distribution of gallinaceous birds (Galliformes) in the south of eastern Europe, specifically within the territory of present‐day Ukraine, during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. The research is based on the comprehensive revision of skeletal remains found at archaeological sites.
Leonid Gorobets +3 more
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The Confines of Subjectivity: Spaces of Resistance in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2019 George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, despite the vast political changes during the last half-century since its publication and its various aesthetic shortcomings, remains one of the most important and relevant books of this century.
Marcin Tereszewski
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Aspects of the Rapid Development of Christian Religious Travel in the 4th Century A.D. [PDF]
, 2020 'People travelled for numerous reasons,' so J.W. Drijvers submits at the beginning of his piece on travel and pilgrimage literature. Be it ‘commerce, government affairs, religion, education, military business or migration,’ people ‘made use of the ...
Van der Molen, Jan M.
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Talking Fanart: Small Stories About Drawings and Games
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The present paper investigates small stories of Minecraft fanart as a part of children's gaming practices. The data consists of interviews with ten Swedish children between 10 and 18 years old about the creation of digital drawings. Taking an ethnomethodological and conversation analytical approach paper directs attention to how Finley talks ...
Pål Aarsand
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Neo lines: Alan Hollinghurst and the apogee of the eighties [PDF]
, 2005 When Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in October 2004, it sealed the arrival in fiction of a retrospective exploration of the 1980s which had already been unmistakable in British culture.
Brooker, Joseph
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article measures the cost of the early modern consumer revolution through a quantitative analysis of product and process innovations in Amsterdam and examines their variegated social impact in two distinct datasets of probate inventories.
Bas Spliet, Anne E. C. McCants
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Ars Adriatica, 2016 Zadar’s medieval manuscript known as Cod. Lat. Iaderensis Filippi (S. Mariae) has been rediscovered after its whereabouts were unknown following its translocation from Zadar during World War II and its acquisition in London in 1997.
Trpimir Vedriš
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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