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From the archaic states to romanization: a historical and evolutionary perspective on the Iberians [PDF]

, 2009
In the middle of the first millennium BC small-scale societies (local or even family level communities) on the Eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula were rapidly transformed, socially and culturally, into complex ones of at least tens of thousands of ...
Joan Sanmartí
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Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
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Cyrenaican funerary portraits in Malta [PDF]

, 1976
The Museum Department of Malta possesses among its rich collection of antiquities, both local and foreign, a set of six portraits which should be appended to the remarkable series of Cyrenaican funerary busts studied and published by Miss Elizabeth ...
Bonanno, Anthony
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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’

German Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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Book Review of Greek Sculpture: Function, Materials, and Techniques in the Archaic and Classical Periods, edited by Olga Palagia

American Journal of Archaeology, 2010
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Opening the Door to the Entire Community: How Museums Are Using Permanent Collections to Engage Audiences [PDF]

, 1998
Examines the role of research and planning in developing successful audience-building initiatives. Museums share strategies for attracting new audiences, creating meaningful visitor experiences and maintaining artistic ...

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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Sull’identificazione di un gruppo fittile arcaico dal santuario di San Biagio della Venella (Metaponto) [PDF]

, 2020
Le tre statue fittili oggetto di questo studio provengono dal santuario di San Biagio alla Venella, nel territorio di Metaponto, e precisamente da un unico deposito votivo ubicato al suo interno.
DE STEFANO, FRANCESCO
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City of God and the Duty of Just Memory

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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