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A synthetic measure of mortality using skeletal data from ancient cemeteries: the d index [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Due to the scarcity of written sources in ancient historical periods, and thanks to the development of increasingly sophisticated methods of excavation, recognition, publication, and interpretation, archaeology has played an important role in
Barbiera, Irene +2 more
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A targeted public: public services in fifteenth-century Ghent and Bruges [PDF]
, 2010 Though the phrase 'public services' is a nineteenth-century invention, which was supported by a developed rhetoric of political economy, this article shows that the concept, practice and supply of such services could also be found in the medieval city ...
Haemers, Jelle, Ryckbosch, Wouter
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The Spiritual Nature of the Italian Renaissance [PDF]
, 2020 This study seeks to investigate the influence of faith in the emergence and development of the Italian Renaissance, in both the artwork and writing of the major artists and thinkers of the day, and the impact that new expressions of faith had on the ...
Kenney, Kaitlyn
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Many Hands Without Design:The Evolution of a Medieval Prophetic Text [PDF]
, 2014 This article reconstructs the pre-manuscript history of the Sibylla Tiburtina, a late antique prophetic text, very widespread after c.1000. It argues against the prevailing belief that a single intelligence structured the Latin text to a single meaning ...
Holdenried, Anke
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Dubrovnik's relics of Saint Vlaho and dispersion of ethnonyms Vlah in the 15th and 16th century [PDF]
Baština, 2012 While viewing the Dubrovnik email reliquary, with a part of the skull of St.Vlaho, as a capital Byzantine monument of XI c., which promoted the later creation of Dubrovnik Republic as a state-city, we hold that this relics enabled, in a best way creation
Petrović Radmilo
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The 'Popolo'’s Room. Describing medieval archives through a fourteenth century Bologna’s inventory
Journal of Open Humanities DataThis article presents a dataset derived from a medieval archive inventory preserved in the State Archives of Bologna, the Liber seu memoriale of 1324. This source, resulting from the reorganization of an important portion of the archives of the ancient ...
Giuliano Milani, Armando Antonelli
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An Investigation of Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna in a Modern Anatomical Body Donor Population
Clinical Anatomy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research sought to examine the prevalence and severity of hyperostosis frontalis interna (HFI) in the Chicagoland anatomical body donor population. The study further aimed to elucidate potential demographic risk factors for HFI, including sex, age at death, and structural vulnerability index (SVI), as well as any common comorbidities, as ...
Amy C. Beresheim, Amanda Hall
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Early use of the reinforced concrete in the architecture of the Historicism in Austria–Hungary
Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract The study examines the early incorporation of reinforced concrete in the architecture of Historicism in Austria–Hungary. Spanning the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the research illuminates the period's stylistic pluralism and the transformative impact of reinforced concrete.
Éva Lovra, Zoltán Bereczki
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Universities, ‘Left Behind Places’ and the Making of a Moral Crisis
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Britain's universities face an acute financial and moral crisis. Once celebrated as engines of the knowledge economy and social mobility, they are now viewed increasingly with suspicion—criticised as elitist, self‐serving and detached from public needs.
Sarah Chaytor, John Tomaney
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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