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Bronze casting in Late Antiquity in the Marche Region

Dissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae
This essay reviews the discovery of three sites where deposits of bronze fragments have been found, in the Roman cities of Pisaurum, Sentinum and Potentia.
Nicoletta Frapiccini
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A Hall For Hercules At Ostia And A Farewell To The Late Antique >Pagan Revival> [PDF]

, 2010
In 1945, Herbert Bloch published an inscription from Ostia recording the restoration of a cellam Herc[ulis] in the late fourth century and suggested that it heralded the last pagan revival in the western Roman empire.
Boin, Douglas R.
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Sirmian Martyrs in Exile: Pannonian Parallels and a Re-evaluation of the St. Demetrius Problem [PDF]

, 2010
The question of the origins of the cult of the fourth century martyr, Demetrius of Thessalonica has been the focal point of hagiographical research since the first publication of his passions by the Bollandists in 1780.
Tóth, Péter
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Forensic Analysis of Fountain Pen Calligraphy–II. Real Evidence Analysis at the Public Prosecutor's Office

X-Ray Spectrometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study is a report of the real forensic analysis of characters written by fountain pen(s) on two sheets of paper. One sheet is the calligraphy written by the victim of the Sayama incident. The other is number characters written with a fountain pen found on the lintel of the suspect's house.
Jun Kawai, Masafumi Nishimoto, Shinichi Ishizuka   +2 more
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Късноантични latrinae от Serdica

Българско е-Списание за Археология, 2016
The paper presents six Late Antique latrinae excavated in Serdica during the last few years. Every latrina is presented with its location, description, chronology and function.
Mario Ivanov
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A History of ‘Religious History’

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

Kršćanstvo na tlu Srbije od prvih početaka do dolaska Slavena

Diacovensia, 2019
The paper presents general data on the early Christian period on the territory of today’s Serbia, from the period of tetrarchy to the end of late antiquity.
Mirja Jarak
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celebrations and spaces

Проект Байкал, 2020
Squares are as integral to the patterns of antique and medieval cities as holidays to the calendar. It was on the squares where rural dwellers met with urban ones during mass events and traditional agricultural holidays gradually turned into urban ...
Elena Grigoryeva, Konstantin Lidin
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source