Evocative computing – creating meaningful lasting experiences in connecting with the past [PDF]
, 2013 We present an approach – evocative computing – that demonstrates how ‘at hand’ technologies can be ‘picked up’ and used by people to create meaningful and lasting experiences, through connecting and interacting with the past. The approach is instantiated
J. McCarthy +9 more
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Dating Medieval Roman Alphabet Inscriptions - An Example from Hallvard's Cathedral in Oslo
Collegium Medievale, 2021 In order for Roman alphabet inscriptions to be useful primary sources for historical, linguistic or other research, it is important that they are dated. Moreover, the user of these inscriptions should be able to judge the quality, i.e., the certainty, or
Johan Bollaert
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Genealogy, 2020 The perfunctory noting of name, dates, family relationships and a location on gravestones initially suggests that such details are unprofitable sources for evidence of male identity.
Elizabeth Ritchie
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Names on Alsatian Gravestones as Mirrors of Politics and Identities
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2020 This study focuses on personal names on gravestones in Alsace, a region in the east of France that has shifted several times between France and Germany, especially between 1871 and 1945. These shifts are observable in the cemeteries, not least regarding
Katharina Vajta
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The Death Taboo: Euphemism and Metaphor in Epitaphs from the English Cemetery of Malaga, Spain
Languages, 2023 In spite of the fact that taboos change over time, death is still a delicate and sensitive subject in today’s Western societies. Our unwillingness to talk openly about death and dying makes people resort to euphemism as a safe way to talk about human ...
Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
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A Roman funerary inscription from Smederevo [PDF]
Starinar, 2016 In this short paper the authors publish a Hungarian wartime postcard from Smederevo (Serbia), from 1916. It is reported that a Roman gravestone was found on the banks of the Danube and the text of the lost stone monument was also added.
Kovács Péter, Prohászka Péter
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Romanisation of the population of the eastern part of the Roman province of Dalmatia [PDF]
Balcanica, 2003 It is considered that the territory of the eastern part of the Roman province of Dalmatia was inhabited by the population of the same ethnic and cultural identity.
Zotović Radmila M.
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Images of Music and Musicians as Indicators of Status, Wealth and Political Power on Roman Funerary Monuments [PDF]
, 2019 Untersuchungen bildlicher Darstellungen von Musikinstrumenten sowie Musikantinnen und Musikanten haben ergeben, dass sie in Grabkontexten benutzt wurden, um auf den Wohlstand sowie den politischen oder sozialen Status der verstorbenen Person oder ihrer ...
Alexandrescu, Cristina-Georgeta
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Uwagi o polszczyźnie inskrypcji nagrobnych na Grodzieńszczyźnie
Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2014 Notes about the Polish language gravestone inscriptions in Grodno region The article presents the analysis of features of the Polish language displayed in gravestone inscriptions of the chosen Catholic cemeteries of Grodno region – Kvasovka, Indura ...
Katarzyna Konczewska
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Re-collecting Jim. Discovering a name and a slave narrative's continuing truth [PDF]
, 2014 In a follow-up installment in 1839 to the anonymously authored Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave, the narrator testifies that a Charleston slave speculator known as "Major Ross" had sold his brother.
Susanna Margaret Ashton
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