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Recent scholarship on classical literature and the eighteenth century
Abstract This article provides a survey of the scholarship on classical literature and eighteenth‐century British literary culture that has appeared since 2010. Drawing on general overviews of the period, as well as more specific work on translation and classical reception, it focuses on the following five subject‐areas: non‐elite readers of classical ...
Ian Calvert
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Patricia Crone and the “secular tradition” of early Islamic historiography: An exegesis
Abstract Patricia Crone famously identified three distinct sub‐traditions within early Islamic historiography: a “religious tradition”, a “tribal tradition”, and a “secular tradition”. Whereas the first is extremely unreliable and the second is partially unreliable regarding early Islamic history in general (c.
Joshua J. Little
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The first known dinar of the Mazyadid dynasty (of al-Ḥilla) أول دينار معروف للدولة المزيديّة [PDF]
:This paper discusses a unique gold coin in the FINT collection that was struck from two obverse dies. The younger obverse can be attributed to the “king of the Arabs” ʿAlī (II) ibn Dubays, the (next-to-)last of the Mazyadids of al-Ḥilla in Iraq. So far,
Sebastian Hanstein
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UNINTENTIONAL MONUMENTS, OR THE MATERIALIZING OF AN OPEN PAST
ABSTRACT This article examines the emergence of a new epistemic value that was attributed to remnants of the past during the broad debate on historical evidence in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the unintentionality of the testimony.
LISA REGAZZONI
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INSIDE OPPIDA TERRITORIES: THE LATE IRON AGE IN THE IBERIAN EASTERN MESETA (CENTRAL SPAIN)
Summary Since the beginning of Iron Age archaeology, urban agglomerations have dominated the debate on urbanism. The rural settlements – their types, functions and socio‐political dynamics – have been practically absent from the general discussion. The territorial backdrop of the Late Iron Age communities can provide both a new comparative framework in
Raquel Liceras‐Garrido
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Armenia and Armenians in Roman Numismatics
Ancient Armenian sources are very scarce and do not permit a thorough understanding of Ancient Armenia. For this reason, all available sources relevant to Armenia need to be considered and studied.
Anahide Kéfélian
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Brahmā at the Ajapāla Banyan Tree: Re-Examining Paintings at the Sulamani Temple, Bagan
This article examines how the literary evidence corroborates with the visual evidence for the unusual presence of Brahmā with the Buddha at the Ajapāla banyan tree of the goatherd symbolizing the Fifth of the Seven Weeks after the Enlightenment of the ...
Osmund Bopearachchi
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Child’s health in the mirror of numismatics. Report 2. The history of pediatric surgery
Report 1 presented the definition of numismatics as a historical science, aspects of the study of its components (coins, medals, plaques), the images of common international symbols of pediatrics (Har-pa-Khered, or Harpocrates, a pelican feeding its ...
O.V. Syniachenko +5 more
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رؤیة معاصره لاستخدام زخرفة زهرة اللاله بأسلوب الکروشیه الفیلیة [PDF]
The beginnings of this search term for the idea occurred to the researchers to create a new style of filet – crochet by inspiring the decoration of tulip flower during ottoman era to invent a new way to decorate textiles using crochet fillets, as one of
Prof .Ali Hassan Abed Allah Hassan +1 more
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