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Archaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 719-738, August 2024.Abstract This case study examines the use of X‐ray fluorescence (XRF) as an effective method for defining distinct chemical compositions of local basalt stone from different sources in the Roman period, even when their quarries have not been identified.
Mechael Osband +2 more
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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Musica, 2012 The year 2011 was very rich and creative for the musicologist Constanta Cristescu. Three volumes of musicology creations were published under her signature.
Gabriela COCA
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Masculine crusaders, effeminate Greeks, and the female historian: relations of power in Sir Walter Scott's Count Robert of Paris [PDF]
, 2017 Gender employed as a methodological lens in the analysis of historical fiction can help to reveal implicit or explicit evaluative statements. It is deployed here to examine hierarchies in the military, political and cultural context of the encounter ...
Kolovou, Ioulia
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The past and future of the study of Islamic esotericism
Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al‐bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like “mysticism” and “occultism,” it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al‐bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to ...
Liana Saif
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The historical regions of Europe: civilizational backgrounds and multiple routes to modernity [PDF]
, 2012 A systematic typology or comparative analysis of European historical regions does not exist and there is relatively little literature on the topic. The argument in this paper is that a six-fold classification is needed to capture the diversity of Europe ...
Delanty, Gerard
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 70, Issue 2, Page 281-299, June 2024.Gough Whitlam was deeply committed to the preservation of history, and keenly attuned to the importance of the documentary record in the writing of it. For Whitlam, the written record — the contemporaneous documentary record of government activity — was central to the production of historical knowledge and the “verification” of history. As he reflected
Jenny Hocking
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017 The article is devoted to the role of women in the families of the Byzantine provincial military nobility, in the middle of 9th – middle of 11th century. This issue remains poorly understood in historiography, and it is surely very urgent in light of the
Anton S. Mokhov, Karina R. Kapsalykova
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Stocks and flows: Material culture and consumption behaviour in early modern Venice (c. 1650–1800)
The Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 2, Page 416-443, May 2024.Abstract This paper examines the evolution of consumption practices in Venice in the long eighteenth century through the combined use of post‐mortem inventories and household budgets. Although Italy experienced a period of relative decline between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, our findings suggest that Venetian households enjoyed a rich and
Mattia Viale
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‘Selective historians’: The construction of cisness in Byzantine and Byzantinist texts
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 32-51, March 2024.Abstract Far from being a natural, prelapsarian state, cisness is a hegemonic ideal of gender performance demanded of all people. This article explores the construction of cisness in the field of Byzantine studies, and the historiographical tropes through which it is maintained, naturalised and made invisible.
Ilya Maude
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Two hegemonies, one island: Cyprus as a "Middle Ground" between the Byzantines and the Arabs (650-850 A.D.) [PDF]
, 2013 This paper aims to assess the political and cultural status of the island of Cyprus as the only place within the Mediterranean where Christian heirs of Romans and Muslims shared the local tax revenue to create a buffer zone between two empires ...
Zavagno, Luca
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