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Figures of love: amor from antiquity to the Italian middle ages

open access: yes, 2020
Love is a slippery subject, its effect can be physical—capturing, striking, controlling—but its physical form is not always clearly described. This ambiguity is exacerbated by the fact that the Latin word 'amor', the root of love in romance languages, is
Bowen, Rebecca
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Glass in Late Antiquity in the Near East [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
© 2007 Brill The document attached has been archived with permission from the publisher. An external link to the publisher’s copy is included.This paper seeks to explore some of the possible connections between three late antique strands of glass ...
O'Hea, M.
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

El estudio de la magia en la Antigüedad tardía: Algunas consideraciones prácticas

open access: yesGerión, 2000
This article takes a look at the approaches to the study of magic in Late Antiquity. The partial analysis of a magical figure (King Solomon) makes possible to extract new indications for a better understanding of magic and its role in the Mediterranean ...
Pablo A. Torijano
doaj   +2 more sources

The Transformation of Metaphysics in Late Antiquity [PDF]

open access: yesSCHOLE, 2009
The paper discusses the development of metaphysics understood as a philosophical discipline or science. I would like to propose that the last period of Greek philosophy, that going from about the 3rd to the 6th centuries A.D., made new and interesting ...
O'Meara, Dominic
doaj  

Late Antiquity and World History [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The flourishing of late-antique studies in the last half-century has coincided with the rise of “world history” as an area of academic research. To an extent, some overlap has occurred, particularly with Sasanian Persia being considered alongside the ...
Mark Humphries
core   +1 more source

Hydration Behavior of Tricalcium Silicate in Seawater Relevant Salt Systems: A Hybrid Study with the Aid of Machine Learning

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
The hydration behavior of C3S in seawater‐relevant solutions is studied based on experiments, boundary nucleation and growth (BNG) modeling, and machine learning. The main ions included in seawater modify hydration mechanisms, with MgCl2 showing the strongest acceleration effect at the same concentration.
Yanjie Sun   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeological evidence of luxury textiles from Late Antique Serdica

open access: yesБългарско е-Списание за Археология
Evidence of archaeological textiles from antiquity, and in particular of luxury textiles, has long attracted the interest of researchers. Clothing in every historical period is among the clearest markers of prestige and social status.
Iliana Borisova-Katsarova
doaj   +3 more sources

The episcopalis audientia in Late Antiquity

open access: yesDroit et Cultures, 2013
The constitution Sirmondiana 1 of 331/3 is seen by a number of scholars as evidence that in the period 331/3–408 bishops had full jurisdiction, i.e.
A. J. B. Sirks
doaj  

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli's De Hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina (1761): Mercury Mining, Mercurialism, and Preventive Reasoning in Eighteenth‐Century Occupational Medicine

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788), a physician‐naturalist of the Enlightenment, is primarily remembered for his contributions to botany and entomology. Less attention has been paid to his medical work De hydrargyro Idriensi Tentamina physico‐chymico‐medica (1761), written during his fifteen years of service as physician at the mercury mines
Alberto Zanatta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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