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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Opaițe romane târzii decorate cu ”Fațadă de temple” [PDF]
Peuce, 2019 The present article aims to analyze the late antique lamps with discus bearing an arch or a niche laying on two columns. This architectural motif has been discussed for forty years for its meaning, regardless of its rendering or the type of lamps it ...
Laurent CHRZANOVSKI +2 more
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Christian and Jewish Communities of Aquileia through the Works of Fortunatian and Chromace
Edinost in Dialog, 2020 The article deals with the complex relations between the Jewish and Christian communities in the late antique Aquileia, one of the most important cities of the Roman empire at the time.
Jan Dominik Bogataj, Miran Špelič
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Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2020 The reuse-recycling of objects and materials is a phenomenon frequently identified in ancient constructions. However, despite its apparent banality, archaeologists are not always able to recognize this practice.
Hervé CHOPIN +2 more
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR URBAN COMMONING: The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Commoning requires repair. Where capitalist logics of accumulation, enclosure and exclusion produce abandoned space through the city, urban commoners remake that space to serve the needs of inhabitants. Without hiding the paradoxes and risks of repair, based on years‐long ethnography in the Liberated Spaces in Naples, Italy, we demonstrate how
Martina Locorotondo, Adam Fishwick
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Marketplaces, crucial sites for low‐income populations as sources of affordable goods and social interaction, are at a critical juncture. They are experiencing decline due to the rise of shopping centres and neglect by public authorities, while at the same time being rediscovered as tourist attractions, sources of profit and tools for urban ...
Francesca Ru
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Revue Archéologique du Centre de la France, 2018 Two recent preventive archaeological excavations carried out in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) allowed to study the evolution of districts located in the outskirts of the antique city between the end of the first or the beginning of the second century ...
Damien Martinez, Julien Ollivier
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Archaeology International, 2020 Debates surrounding late antique societies have attracted renewed interest from an archaeological perspective. Attention given to this period between the fifth and the eighth centuries reflects present-day issues closely related to urban landscapes and
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2018 The paper is devoted to the analysis of Eastern and Western burials’ ceramic imports of Early Sarmatian archaeological culture in the Lower Volga region.
Valeriy M. Klepikov
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