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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
wiley   +1 more source

Intelligent Agents at School—Child–Robot Interactions as an Educational Path

open access: yesEducation Sciences
The pervasiveness of technologies leads us to talk about a code society. From an educational point of view, coding, computational thinking, and educational robotics are an open possibility.
Margherita Di Stasio, Beatrice Miotti
doaj   +1 more source

ALL THAT GLITTERS: THE MANY OBJECTS OF ROME'S MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATIONS

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 422-452, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This review article examines the various methodologies practiced by Rome's Museum of Civilizations (Museo delle Civiltà) to discuss the contemporary curatorial approaches of traditional ethnographic museums. It adopts a historical and comparative perspective to situate the diverse collections within ongoing debates about art restitution.
Arielle Xena Alterwaite
wiley   +1 more source

The Bright Side of Breaking Up: How Territorial Fragmentation Increases Political Engagement in Local Communities

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 951-964, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Territorial reforms of administrative boundaries primarily aim at pursuing cost and administrative efficiency objectives, but their impact on the political engagement of local communities remains unclear. Moreover, while amalgamations have been widely studied, little is known about the effects of territorial fragmentation.
Augusto Cerqua, Dante Di Matteo
wiley   +1 more source

Melōsa and her prize: The victory of a woman in ancient Greece

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 334-352, July 2024.
Abstract The earliest example of the Ancient Greek word for a victor's prize, nikatērion, comes in a verse inscription from the sixth century bce on an Attic kylix (wine cup) from Taras. It records the victory of Melōsa in a competition with other young women. This article draws out the significance of her victory and redefines our understanding of who
Ian Plant
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the asylum

open access: yesArea, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2024.
Short Abstract The paper addresses mental health geographers' call for a situated knowledge about mental health and, by using the Italian psychiatric experience of the 1960s and 1970s as an example, stresses the importance of looking at care in both spatial and relational terms.
Alessandra Mossa
wiley   +1 more source

Participating in professional development programmes or learning in the wild? Understanding the learning ecologies of Holocaust educators

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 307-330, February 2024.
Abstract Holocaust education, which refers to the teaching and learning of the Holocaust—the systematic genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II—is an essential component of history and social studies education in many countries.
Stefania Manca   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Insediamento, territorio e formule notarili: una verifica (Verona, IX-XII secolo)

open access: yesReti Medievali Rivista, 2011
L’organizzazione del territorio rurale nel medioevo e la sua conoscibilità attraverso le tecniche ubicatorie utilizzate dai notai costitiscono un tema classico nella storiografia italiana della seconda metà del Novecento.
Andrea Brugnoli
doaj   +1 more source

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