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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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La ciudad romana de Baetulo (Badalona): historia y urbanismo [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
Aquest article recull l'anàlisi de la notícia històrica dels orígens de Badalona, amb referència concreta al seu urbanisme fundacional i amb una menció especial a les termes romanes com a tipus arquitectònic d'edifici públic més destacat.
Guitart i Duran, Josep   +1 more
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Natural Products from Mexican Medicinal Plants as Promising Trypanocidal Drugs

open access: yesChemistrySelect, Volume 10, Issue 37, October 6, 2025.
Chagas disease (American Trypanosomiasis) is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. Worldwide it is one of the seventeen neglected tropical diseases. There is a need of new drugs. This review assesses the literature (2012‐2024) of secondary metabolites isolated from Mexican plants active against this parasite.
Karla Daniela Rodríguez‐Hernández   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pliny’s Natural History: a medium for preservation and a cause of loss of knowledge

open access: yesClassica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 2006
A História Natural de Plínio: meio de conservação e causa de perda de conhecimento. A História Natural de Plínio pretende ser um inventário do mundo conhecido para os romanos. Este artigo discute, na sua primeira parte, as razões desse projeto.
Jacob Isager
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Madres y maternidades. Construcciones culturales en la civilización clásica. Rosa María Cid López (coord.) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Rosa María Cid López, profesora de Historia de la Universidad de Oviedo, ha reunido en este libro a un conjunto de destacadas expertas en Historia antigua de distintas universidades para reflexionar sobre cómo se construyó culturalmente la idea de la ...
Santiago Bautista, Aroa Carolina
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Ordo renascendi est crescere posse malis (Rutilius Namatianus I.140): the sack of Rome and the resilience of western Roman aristocracies

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 139-157, May 2025.
Rutilius Namatianus’ poem De reditu suo was written a few years after the devastation of Rome in 410. It has been read as nostalgia for Rome’s past greatness written in a climate of senatorial escapism. This article revises this reading, instead analysing the poem as the literary expression of resilience on the part of the traditional western ...
Sophie Kultzen
wiley   +1 more source

Breve historia de La Romana

open access: yesRevista ECOS UASD, 2021
Se detiene en reflexionar sobre el nombre de la ciudad estudiada. Para luego realizar un recorrido por la historia del conglomerado que empezó su andadura desde los inicios del siglo XIX y se desarrolla hasta los umbrales del XXI.
openaire   +2 more sources

Who in the world are the Heruli?1

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 284-305, August 2024.
The history of the Heruli represents a historical conundrum. Because of the poor state of the sources, caution is required when analysing this subject. However, the peculiarity of the case encourages us to rethink the way we conceive of and describe migrations in Late Antiquity.
Salvatore Liccardo
wiley   +1 more source

Flooding in Northern Italy during the Early Middle Ages: resilience and adaptation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
open1Alluvial phenomena are well documented by archaeologists all over Northern Italy, and have been often linked to events reported by literary sources (e.g. the flooding of 589 described by Paul the Deacon). This paper will discuss, on the basis of the
Brogiolo, Gian Pietro
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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 57-81, February 2024.
The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
wiley   +1 more source

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