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Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In bioethics, two sorts of normative categories are commonly used. These can be split into two families: the deontic categories, such as ‘right’, ‘ought to’ and ‘requirement’, and the evaluative categories, including ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘better than’ and ‘the best’. While other normative concepts such as ‘virtue’ and ‘vice’ have also been discussed,
Ronan Ó Maonaile, James Hart
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, 2014 The use of the Biblical texts in ancient Christian inscriptions is a very rare phenomenon (around 800 documents in all the so-called orbis christianus antiquus) and only a few of these inscriptions are in a funerary context: a little less than 200 units.
FELLE, Antonio
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article presents new archival discoveries concerning the siblings of early modern playwright John Fletcher following the sudden death of their father, Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, in 1596. Navigating the epistemological limits of adversarial legal records from Chancery and the Star Chamber, the study reveals the tumultuous ...
Domenico Lovascio
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Human–Animal Comparisons: Supporting and Criticizing Female Subjugation in Renaissance Italy
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying gender history through an animal history lens, or vice versa, simultaneously increases our knowledge of ideas about gender and human–animal relations. This approach has particular merit for the Renaissance period, as it witnessed an upsurge in discourse about both the human–animal divide and the distinction between men and women.
Marlisa den Hartog
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, 2018 Analysis of an unpublished opistographic plaque, which attests to two different funerary inscriptions realized at different times. Some of the letters in the more recent text were erased and re-engraved to remedy a few mistakes made by the ...
Riccardo Bertolazzi
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New Funerary Inscriptions from Lydia in the Kütahya Museum
Gephyra, 2008 This article presents two grave steles and four cinerary chests (three of which are inscribed). The steles were found in Yassıeynehan, a village of Simav in northern Lydia/western Phrygia (Maionia/Mysia Abbaïtis).
N. Eda Akyürek Şahin, Fatih Onur
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Framing Peninsular Crypto‐Jews as Part of the Sephardic Diaspora
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When we talk about the Sephardic diaspora, we often talk about Iberian conversos who leave the Peninsula, supposedly to live openly as Jews in places like Algiers, Venice, Amsterdam or the Ottoman Empire. But what about those conversos who continued to identify in some way as Jews but who remained in Spain and Portugal?
David A. Wacks
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Biomolecular characterization of 3500-year-old ancient Egyptian mummification balms from the Valley of the Kings. [PDF]
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, 2018 This paper discusses the inclusion of the characteristic verses from the Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead on funerary inscriptions of the Orthodox Christians in the Late Middle Ages.
Đorđević, Jakov
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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