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Ordinary Religion in the Late Roman Empire [PDF]
Studies in Late Antiquity, 2021 openaire +1 more source
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Palermo became the new capital of Sicily after the Aghlabid conquest in 831. The transformation of the city into a capital took many forms, including the production and consumption of pottery. The perspective from ceramic evidence shows that Palermo underwent faster and deeper processes of Islamization than other urban and rural contexts across the ...
Viva Sacco
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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
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Die Rezeption des deutschen Fürstenbundes. Von Zeitgenossen bis Leopold von Ranke
Historia.scribere, 2014 The following paper examines how the history of the “German Fürstenbund” from 1785 was told by contemporary and late 19th century politicians and historians.
Nikolaus Bliem
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The integration between Romans and barbarians in the late Roman Empire
, 2013 Review of: FRIGHETTO, Renan. Antiguidade Tardia: Roma e as monarquias romano-bárbaras numa época de transformações. Séculos II-VIII. Curitiba: Juruá, 2012. 226 p.
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Publication and the validity of constitutions in the Late Roman Empire
Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'histoire du droit / The Legal History ReviewSummary Contrary to the current view of Mommsen, Seeck and Schwind that imperial legislation required publication to gain validity, Bianchi Fossati Vanzetti and particularly Kreuzsaler maintained that imperial legislation gained validity directly by the issuing by the emperor (the datio
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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
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Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an injustice to history. Consigning acknowledges that a historical injustice took place but denies that it has any ongoing relevance for the present ...
Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
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Growing together: Developmental integration and modularity in the human talus–calcaneus complex
Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.This study investigates morphological integration and trabecular bone development in the human talus–calcaneus complex during postnatal ontogeny. The two bones exhibit strong integration throughout development, with differing bone volume fraction trajectories presumably reflecting their distinct functional roles during bipedal gait acquisition ...
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