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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Cuando el vino dice algo más sobre la sociedad: Otra visión de Roma Imperial
Universum, 2005 La presente investigación forma parte de un trabajo mayor que hemos desarrollado durante los últimos seis años. A partir de algunos pasajes de las Sátiras de Juvenal delineamos la visión del poeta sobre la sociedad romana. En particular, nos centramos en
Marcela A. E Cubillos Poblete
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On the Extinction of the Luwian ziti-Names, on Lycian Ipresida and the Caunian Imbros
Gephyra, 2017 The Luwian personal names formed with -ziti ‘man’ did not survive into the later hieroglyphic inscriptions; the latest clear example is attested at Carchemish around 975 BC.
Diether Schürr
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Jewish Education (Chapter 26 of The World of the New Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts) [PDF]
, 2013 The nature of Jewish education in the first century has clear relevance for a number of issues in NT interpretation. How did Jesus learn Torah—at home, at school? Could he even read and write? Were his disciples illiterates?
Yinger, Kent
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Winged horses, rascals and discourse referents
Theoria, EarlyView.Abstract This paper discusses some remarks Kaplan made in ‘Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice’ concerning empty names. I show how his objections to a particular view involving descriptions derived from Ramsification can be avoided by a nearby alternative framed in terms of discourse reference.
Andreas Stokke
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Ellenismo imperiale (hi sec. d.c.)
Studia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2010 SOMMARIO: Gli studi di storia del mondo greco nella prima età impériale sono stati particolarmente soltivati in Italia negli ultimi decenni. Si ripercorrono le fasi di questo fenómeno cultúrale, cercando di metterne in evidenza le origini e le ...
Paolo DESIDERI
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 275-298, May 2026.This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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, 2019 This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores, inter alia, the strategy employed by Augustine in using Plato as a pseudo-prophet against later Platonists and explores ...
Emilsson, Eyjolfur +3 more
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Alzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 22, Issue 4, April 2026.Abstract INTRODUCTION Repetitive head impacts (RHI) from contact sports may cause a unique pattern of white matter hyperintensities (WMH) on T2‐weighted fluid‐attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), termed RHI‐associated WMH (RHI‐WMH).
Jenna R. Groh +50 more
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How and Why I Count(ed). A Response to Ramsay MacMullen
History of Classical Scholarship, 2020 In a recent publication in this journal, Professor Ramsay MacMullen failed to correctly represent thoughts I had posted online, though not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Nathan Pilkington
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