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The Construction of a Bestseller: The Case of Thomas Nettleton's Some Thoughts Concerning Virtue and Happiness (1729)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

Types of cultural palimpsest landscapes in the Mediterranean basin delimitation and mapping

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Geography, 2017
Cultural heritage sites in the Mediterranean basin reflect long–term cultural and land-use changes associated with different regional civilizations. We integrated data on historical heritage sites and civilization areas using GIS-mapping and modeling ...
Oxana A. Klimanova   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The theme of a Domed Rotunda in Ani School of Armenian Architecture during the Bagratids' Era: Interpretation of the Classical Image

open access: yesDisegnare con, 2020
This article briefly reviews the advancing of a domed rotunda to Ani (or metropolitan) school of Armenian architecture being a significant and in some aspects unique tendency of medieval church architecture. The evidence will be considered in the context
Armen Kazaryan
doaj  

Late Antique Residences at Golemo Gradište, Konjuh, R. Macedonia

open access: yes, 2013
The systematic excavations that began at Golemo Gradište in 2000 were the first major, legal investigations on the site itself. Through survey of the site, researchers had reached a number of conclusions and hypotheses about lines of fortification walls,
Sanev, Goran, Snively, Carolyn S.
core  

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Procopius’ Belisarius

open access: yesClassica Cracoviensia
This article re-evaluates the portrayal of Belisarius by Procopius and other sixth-century sources, not to uncover new biographical data but to trace the evolving representation of his authority, reputation, and career.
Christopher Lillington-Martin
doaj   +1 more source

Los “síntomas orientales” en la liturgia hispana de la Tardoantigüedad [PDF]

open access: yes
Taking into consideration the historiographical debate that has been going on for the past thirty years surrounding the study of Late Antique architecture and liturgy, it has been possible to reach certain conclusions regarding the successes and the ...
López Pérez, Iván Pablo
core   +1 more source

‘Missing persons’: Ancient legacies of human–environment interaction in tropical natural properties inscribed under the 1972 World Heritage Convention

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
wiley   +1 more source

Finding a way: long-term care homes to support dementia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
An ageing demographic has increased the number of people with dementia. Although dementia is commonly associated with memory loss, other early symptoms include difficulty with wayfinding.
Alzheimer's Society   +20 more
core   +1 more source

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