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North African pottery in Palermo: preliminary findings from the Montevergini excavations
Cartagine. Studi e RicerchePalermo 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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The competition for souls: Sava of Serbia and consumer choice in religion in the thirteenth century Balkans [PDF]
, 2006 SUMMARY The word αίρεσις , heresy means choice and in a world where religious belief was taken for granted the history of Catharism in Europe can be explained through believers exercising many of the criteria they were later to adapt to choosing secular
Roach, A.P.
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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Late Roman and Early Byzantine Lead Seals from the Laspi Valley
Античная древность и средние векаNowadays 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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The geometry and construction of Byzantine vaults: the fundamental contribution of Auguste Choisy [PDF]
, 2009 In 1883 Auguste Choisy published his book L=art de bâtir chez les Byzantins. In it he explained, for the first time, all the details of the geometry and construction of byzantine vaults. The main source was the direct study of the monuments, interpreting
Huerta Fernández, Santiago
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Power and rural landscapes in early medieval Galicia (400-900 ad ): towards a re-incorporation of the archaeology into the historical narrative [PDF]
, 2013 This paper aims to bring together hitherto neglected archaeological data about the early medieval landscapes of Galicia (north-west Spain), in order to understand the social transformations this ‘peripheral’ region underwent between the fifth and the ...
Sánchez Pardo, JC
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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 +11 more
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, 2008 If the history of Mediterranean trade during the period c800-1200 is one of decline and reluctant recovery that of Northern Europe is decidedly one of growth. One reason for this is the different points of departure.
Arthur, P., Sindbæk, Søren
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Cereals of antiquity and early Byzantine times. Wheat and barley in medical sources (second to seventh centuries AD) [PDF]
, 2014 The present book aims at a detailed analysis of the evolution of dietetic doctrines and an assessment of the value of medical sources for historians of food.
Jagusiak, Krzysztof +2 more
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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