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Of Titans and Terraria: Exploring and Conceptualising Philanthropic Foundations Through the Lens of Metaphors

Journal of Philanthropy, Volume 31, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Addressing ongoing calls for a more robust understanding of philanthropic foundations, this paper uses metaphor analysis to map and analyse analogical metaphors on foundations—metaphors that make a direct comparison between philanthropic foundations and another domain—put forward in academic and non‐academic discourse.
Tobias Jung
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Horaţiu şi Augustus [PDF]

Revista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2018
The relationship between Horace and Augustus changes over time. Originally, while being on the republican side, the poet participates in the battle from Philippi, in which he was enrolled as tribune, and was fighting under command of Brutus. In his first
Alexandra Ciocârlie
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Magistrates, patrons and benefactors of voluntary associations: status building and Romanisation in the Spanish, Gallic and German Provinces of the Roman Empire [PDF]

, 2009
Social historians are becoming increasingly aware that voluntary associations provide the ‘missing link’ between the civic elites and the ‘lower classes’. This raises an important question: how did the Roman collegia contribute to the Romanisation of the
Verboven, Koenraad
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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The Clash Between Christianity and the Concept of Genius in Roman Society

Forum Theologicum Sardicense
This study offers a critical examination of the complex conflict between early Christianity and the Roman conception of Genius—a foundational spiritual and ideological construct that permeated the social, religious, and political fabric of the Roman ...
Stoycho Staykov
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Foreword to John\u27s Gospel in New Perspective

, 2015
Over the last half century or more of Johannine scholarship, three issues have been of primary critical concern. One subject of interest has been the literary origin and composition of the Fourth Gospel.
Anderson, Paul N.
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Enduring myths: smrang, rabs and ritual in the Dunhuang texts on Padmasambhava [PDF]

, 2008
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines Number 15, November ...
Cathy Cantwell, Mayer, Rob
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Colonization of minds: Ukraine between Russian colonialism and Western Orientalism. [PDF]

Front Sociol, 2023
Kotliuk G.
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Жизнь в Риме. Древний Рим в зеркале латинских инскрипций [PDF]

, 2004
В настоящей монографии представлена жизнь всех слоев римского общества на основе данных латинских инскрипций. Рассматриваются следующие темы: аристократия, религия, военное дело, римская семья и домашнее хозяйство, жизнь римского обывателя.Публикуемые ...
Harvey, Brian K., Харви, Брайан   +1 more
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Mobility and migration in Byzantium: who gets to tell the story? [PDF]

Early Mediev Eur, 2023
Rapp C.
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