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Two Galatian Cults in Dacia

open access: yesGephyra, 2017
An unpublished inscription from Ancyra or its territory contains a dedication to Zeus Erusenos.  This deity is also attested on two Latin inscriptions found in Roman Dacia (Roumania), and the cult, like several other local cults from Galatia or eastern ...
Stephen Mitchell
doaj   +1 more source

Pontius Pilate and the Imperial Cult in Roman Judaea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
While Pontius Pilate is often seen as agnostic, in modern terms, the material evidence of his coinage and the Pilate inscription from Caesarea indicate a prefect determined to promote a form of Roman religion in Judaea.
Taylor, Joan E.; id_orcid   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in The Times newspaper.
William Quinn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

El culto a Mitra en la época de Caracalla

open access: yesGerión, 2001
The ancient tradition has established that the severan age existed an anormous develoment of Mitras`s cult in the imperial court. However we cant state that with regard to the present documentation, Mitras was a simply god among others in Emperor ...
Paloma Aguado García
doaj   +2 more sources

Cristianismo bajo Septimio Severo y Caracalla

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2000
Contrariamente a lo afirmado por la tradición cristiana, a Septimio Severo y a Caracalla no podemos considerarles perseguidores de los cristianos.
Paloma Aguado García
doaj   +1 more source

Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Networks paving the way: Apprenticeship, guilds, and access to mastership in early modern Genoa

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how kinship and professional networks shaped labour market outcomes in the guild‐based labour market of early modern Genoa. Using a newly constructed dataset of more than 8,000 apprenticeship contracts (1451–1530), I examine the extent to which family and guild connections influenced apprentices' chances of attaining ...
Alessandro Brioschi
wiley   +1 more source

The regional imperial cult in the Roman province of Dalmatia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Pokrajinski carski kult bio je organiziran na području Hispanije Citerior (Tarraconensis), jugozapadne Germanije i Ilirika, to jest u onim provincijama u kojima su važne ratne i osvajačke uspjehe postigli upravo sami osnivači kulta, Gaj Julije Cezar i
Jadrić-Kučan, Ivana
core   +1 more source

Strategie di potere e culto divino: la divinizzazione di Antinoo nell’Impero Romano [PDF]

open access: yesPapireto
This study examines the death and subsequent deification of Antinous (110-130 AD) within the political, religious and cultural context of the Roman Empire under Hadrian (76-138 AD).
Alessandra Randazzo
doaj   +1 more source

A newly discovered Carolingian text: Candidus' Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti, written for Charlemagne

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlemagne. By discussing selected passages from the Heptateuch, Candidus seeks to demonstrate that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, thus the whole Christian ...
Lukas J. Dorfbauer
wiley   +1 more source

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