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Écrits d'arpentage et hauts fonctionnaires géomètres de l'Antiquité tardive
Dans cette première étude sur les géomètres perfectissimes de l'Empire romain tardif, l'auteur s'efforce de mettre en lumière le rôle de ces hauts fonctionnaires et de déterminer la période de leur activité.
Jean Peyras
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Roman citizenship of Italian *Augustales : evidence, problems, competitive advantages [PDF]
The title * augustalis was used during the first three centuries A. D., to refer to an honorary position in local society. It was mostly bestowed on wealthy freedmen who, because of their servile birth, could not partake in the official cursus honorum ...
Vandevoorde, Lindsey
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Religion romaine et esclavage au Haut-Empire
La réalité juridique de l’esclave à Rome et l’approche économique de l’esclavage ont longtemps figé nos représentations de la place de l’esclave dans la société romaine. C’est l’objet de cet ouvrage, à partir de la confrontation des sources littéraires et de la riche documentation épigraphique, iconographique et archéologique de Rome, du Latium et de ...
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Mortuary Workers, the Church, and the Funeral Trade in Late Antiquity [PDF]
Within the city of Constantinople, Constantine organized numerous funeral workers into associations overseen by a bishop, as part of a scheme meant to provide burials for all who needed them within the city.
Bond, Sarah E.
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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia
Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
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The Bug‐Network (BugNet) is a novel global collaborative research network that implements standardized consumer‐reduction experiments in herbaceous‐ or shrub‐dominated ecosystems to assess the impacts of invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens on plant communities and ecosystem functioning.
Anne Kempel +77 more
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La pêche dans le droit romain [PDF]
Looking back to the Roman era, one can see that the regulation of fisheries already formed a coherent whole which is still interesting to analyse today. The oceans, seas and their shores are res communes, meaning that no one can own these things, or that
Hallé, Michel
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Information in the Brain: From Metaphor to Truth
ABSTRACT Despite explicit warnings from Shannon to tread carefully when applying Information Theory to fields for which it was not designed, contemporary neuroscientists adopting the framework of Information Theory have fallen right into the traps Shannon and others cautioned against. What makes the neuroscientist more than anyone prone to fall prey to
Farid Zahnoun
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“Laid to Rest in Australian Soil”: The Legacies of Repatriation Policy Change during the Vietnam War
For the first half of the twentieth century, Australia maintained a firm policy of non‐repatriation. Military personnel who died overseas were buried in vast military cemeteries administered by the Imperial (later Commonwealth) War Graves Commission. In 1966, however, the Australian government decreed that Australia's war dead could be repatriated, at ...
Kristen Alexander, Kate Ariotti
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Recent research on primitive gothic architecture in Germany has mainly reflected the results of various restoration projects and of methodologically complex architectural analyses.
Bruno Klein
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