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Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi, Lucrezia Masci, Georgios C. Liakopoulos, Monica Bini, Alexander Francke, Ilaria Isola, Carlo Ricotta, Laura Sadori, Alexander Sarantis, Sławomir Sprawski, Jakub Sypiański, Irene Tunno, Cristiano Vignola, Bernd Wagner, Giovanni Zanchetta, Adam Izdebski   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hinterland Gothic: Subtropical Excess in the Literature of South East Queensland

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2019
South East Queensland’s subtropical hinterlands—the mountainous, forested country lying between the cities of the coast and the Great Dividing Range—are sites of a regional variation of Australian Gothic.
Emma Doolan
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Early use of the reinforced concrete in the architecture of the Historicism in Austria–Hungary

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract The study examines the early incorporation of reinforced concrete in the architecture of Historicism in Austria–Hungary. Spanning the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the research illuminates the period's stylistic pluralism and the transformative impact of reinforced concrete.
Éva Lovra, Zoltán Bereczki
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Gothic

Archeologia e Calcolatori. Supplementi, 2018
Mapping Gothic (http://www.mappinggothic.com/) first began in summer 2008 as Mapping Gothic France. Funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the project was initiated at the Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology. The team conducted five expeditions to gather high-resolution images and other data from great Gothic churches, which
Murray, Stephen, Tallon, Andrew, O’Neill, Rory, van Liefferinge, Stefaan   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 1: Old English to the Age of Discovery

Weather, EarlyView.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Gothic entrapment within textuality in Auster’s travels in the scriptorium

Ilha do Desterro
“Gothic-postmodernism” builds upon the shared ontological inquiry into the nature of reality inherent in both the Gothic and postmodernism. By adapting most of the thematic and narrative elements of the Gothic to postmodernist fiction, this genre ...
Mohammad-Javad Haj'jari
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Using computed tomography angiography and computational fluid dynamics to study aortic coarctation in different arch morphologies

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023
ObjectiveTo study the differences in computed tomography angiography (CTA) imaging of gothic arches, crenel arches, and romanesque arches in children with Aortic Coarctation (CoA), and to apply computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to study hemodynamic ...
Jinjie Qin, Da Ouyang, Taocui Yan, Haoru Wang, Kui Guo, Xin Jin, Zhengxia Pan, Ling He   +7 more
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
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Amitié sincère

Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2010
Amitié Sincère – a Counter Narrative and a Story of Love Between Women. A Reading of Karen Blixen’s/Isak Dinesen’s »The Roads Round Pisa« »The Roads Round Pisa« is the opening story in Karen Blixen’s debut work Seven Gothic Tales (1934).
Claudia Lindén
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