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The ‘Pierre Duhem Thesis.’ A Reappraisal of Duhem’s Discovery of the Physics of the Middle Ages [PDF]
Pierre Duhem is the discoverer of the physics of the Middle Ages. The discovery that there existed a physics of the Middle Ages was a surprise primarily for Duhem himself.
Patapievici, Horia-Roman
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The article – originally published as part of the author’s book The Ambitions of Curiosity. Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China – systematically compares the roots of historiography in ancient China and ancient Greece. In both cases early
Geoffrey Lloyd
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Encounters with Modernity: Greek Historiography Since 1974 [PDF]
Greek historiography in the last quarter of the XX th century experimented an important development. New generations of historians founded important publications and increased the output of historical books and research.
Liakos, Antonis
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1821 Greek Revolution: New Approaches in Greek Historiography
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Challenges and solutions for Latin named entity recognition [PDF]
Although spanning thousands of years and genres as diverse as liturgy, historiography, lyric and other forms of prose and poetry, the body of Latin texts is still relatively sparse compared to English.
Ajaka, Petra +6 more
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Germ Panic and Chalice Hygiene in the Church of England, c.1895–1930
The late‐Victorian medical revolution in bacteriology, and growing public awareness of hygienic standards and the danger of disease infection from germs, created alarm about the traditional Christian practice of drinking from a common cup at Holy Communion.
Andrew Atherstone
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Vanga, la «Pythie bulgare»: idées et usages de l'Antiquité en Bulgarie socialiste
Galia Valtchinova, Vanga, the « Bulgarian Pythia »: Ideas and Uses of Antiquity in Bulgaria, DHA 31/1, 2005, p. 93-127. Abstract: Taking cue from a case study of a seer celebrated as national prophetess, in socialist Bulgaria, this paper is dedicated to ...
Galia Valtchinova
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Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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Encounters with Modernity: Greek Historiography Since 1974
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Antonis Liakos
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