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The doctrine of Dioscurides with regard to milk: a source study

Przegląd Nauk Historycznych, 2017
Pedanius Dioscurides of Anazarbos, a physician working for the Roman army living in the first century AD, secured his place in history of medicine as the author of two works, namely De materia medica, and Euporista vel de simplicibus medicinis. Among the
Maciej Kokoszko, Krzysztof Jagusiak, Jolanta Dybała   +2 more
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Moving Toward Universalism? The Future of Long‐Term Care in the United States

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points America's long‐term care system is largely poverty‐based, requiring most older adults to spend down their assets to qualify for limited, Medicaid‐funded support, which is biased toward institutional care and plagued by bureaucratic complexity and enrollment hurdles. There are now, however, some promising changes.
PAMELA HERD
wiley   +1 more source

North African pottery in Palermo: preliminary findings from the Montevergini excavations

Cartagine. Studi e Ricerche
Palermo during late antiquity and the early Byzantine period is largely unknown. Many reasons contribute to this gap. What remains yet to be uncovered is continuity of life that has not seen any systematic investigation, hampered also by a critical ...
Fabrizio Ducati, Rosa Maria Cucco
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Respected and Ignored: British Women and the Arab Revolt (1936–39) in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article aims to reinsert British women and their perspectives into our understanding of anticolonial resistance in Palestine. Historiography on the Arab Revolt (1936–39) has previously been built from colonial state archives that disproportionally speak with a male voice and, as such, rely on certain gendered assumptions to describe the ...
Alex Worsfold
wiley   +1 more source

Late Roman and Early Byzantine Lead Seals from the Laspi Valley

Античная древность и средние века
Nowadays the finds of sigillographic monuments from the areas adjoining the most important centres of administration, trade and economy of the mediaeval Crimea make an important contribution to the map showing the molybdoboulla discovered in various ...
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Alekseienko
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Seizing the Regno: Relics and the Politics of Aragonese Expansion in the Fifteenth‐Century Mediterranean

History, EarlyView.
Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer, Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Charlène Bouchaud, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski, Hatem Djerbi, Fabien Lesguer, Hervé Monchot, Paul Picavet, Louise Purdue, Bertrand Riba, Shadi Shabo   +11 more
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Holocene alluvial dynamics, soil erosion and settlement in the uplands of Macedonia (Greece): New geoarchaeological insights from Xerolakkos in Grevena

Quaternary Science Advances
This paper addresses the interplay between Holocene landscape evolution and human settlement dynamics, drawing new evidence from the alluvial history of Xerolakkos, a continental stream in Grevena (Western Macedonia, Greece).
Giannis Apostolou, Alfredo Mayoral, Konstantina Venieri, Sofia Dimaki, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Mercourios Georgiadis, Hector A. Orengo   +6 more
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A theory of political divergence and gradual institutional change

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do some societies succeed in breaking away from historical traditions while others remain trapped? This paper proposes a formal theory to investigate the interaction between short‐run and long‐run political dynamics, highlighting a co‐evolution of political institutions and social structures.
Clair Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Wine Production and Trade on Euboea from the Twelfth to the First Half of the Fifteenth Century

Античная древность и средние века
Although viticulture was widespread in the Eastern Mediterranean, some of its areas possessed a special “wine” reputation. The island of Euboea was among such centers. This article attempts to analyze the state of wine production and wine trade on Euboea
Aleksandra Anatol’evna Romanova
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