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Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz: did he deserve his bad reputation?
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 577-617, December 2025.Summary A biography and critique of Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz (1731–1807) – lawyer, physician, mineralogist, naturalist, compiler and publisher – is provided. Often criticised as being a mass‐plagiariser, this is commented on, based on a detailed examination of several of his publications.
Nicholas Hind
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Epitaph of Merki Found in Hambukol
Études et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences), 2019 The article offers editio princeps of a Greek epitaph discovered during the archaeological work of the Canadian Mission in Hambukol, a locality situated on the right-hand bank of the Nile, several kilometres to the north of Dongola, the capital of the ...
Adam Łajtar
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Culture Unbound, 2009 The pavement lies like a ledger-stone on a tomb. Buried underneath are the remains of fertile landscapes and the life they once supported. Inscribed on its upper side are epitaphic writings. Whatever their ostensible purpose, memorial plaques and public artworks embedded in the pavement are ultimately expressions of civic bereavement and guilt.
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Epitaph of the agrophylax Synekdemos
Gephyra, 2012 In 2002, during the field survey conducted under the auspices of the “TÜBA Cultural Inventory Project of the cities of Denizli-Aydın”, the survey team directed by Prof. Dr.
Filiz Dönmez-Öztürk
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Epitaph in Romanian, Russian, Polish and Lithuanian Historiography [PDF]
Codrul Cosminului, 2013 This study briefly analyzes achievements of Romanian, Russian, Polish and Lithuanian historiography referring to epitaphs. There are reviewed most valuable scientific materials of historians, ethnographers and folklorists referring to this problem.
Alina Felea
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‘There Buds the Laurel’: Nature, Temporality and the Making of Place in the Cemeteries of Roman Italy [PDF]
, 2018 Using the necropolis environments of the Vesuvian region of Imperial period Italy as a case study, this paper examines the ways in which multiple, overlapping, and temporally specific senses of place were associated with Roman funerary landscapes.
Graham, Emma-Jayne
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome
Early 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
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The Cinerary Urn of the Haruspex M. Titius Stephanus
GeriónWe present a study on a Roman funerary urn, with the Latin inscription mentioning a hitherto uncatalogued haruspex in the sacerdotes romani lists. The monument presents a complex and varied decoration, topical images of the urns, and some dionysiac ...
SABINO PEREA YEBENES
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 233-257, September 2025.Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
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The presence of Cassandra: Women in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and in Jose Lins do Rego's Morto [PDF]
, 1999 1999-01 ...
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