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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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Romanian Tourism in the Current Economic Crisis [PDF]
Romania’s seaside is 245 km long; we have 134 national parks and 13 natural reservations that cover 7% of the country’s surface; one third of Europe’s natural springs are located in Romania; 30 monuments are in the UNESCO patrimony; we have 6,600 ...
Adriana MANOLICA, Teodora ROMAN
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Besides Looking: Patrimony, Perfomativity and Visual Cultures [PDF]
, 2008 David Dibosa’s paper, 'Besides Looking: Patrimony, Performativity and Visual Cultures in National Art Museums', is an exploration and a further elaboration of the relations between the development of visual media practices within the research – what we ...
Dibosa, David
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May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães. This was part of a failed attempt to repossess a number of land plots that they claimed were theirs, but had lost control of.
Julio Escalona
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The revaluation of patrimony by the sustainable action of tourism [PDF]
It is the aim of the present paper firstly to provide a theoretical frame which enables us to characterize the development of tourism, highlighting the application of the concept of sustained development, and the role played by tourism in the development
Francisco Guerreiro, Victor Figueira
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, 2019 Cultural practices and events are an occasion to reflect on the space they come to occupy and inhabit\u2014even if temporarily. As it is often the case in Rome, the architecture becomes an overwhelming element to deal with.
CALEO, ILENYA +3 more
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Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.This study investigates the morphology and osteo‐histology of the wing skeleton of the world's first gliding reptiles, showing how it differs from those of extant gliding lizards, yet is also convergently similar. These findings pave the way for future biomechanical studies on the gliding locomotion of these emblematic fossil animals. Abstract The Late
Valentin Buffa +7 more
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'Protecting' the National Artistic Patrimony; An Economics Perspective [PDF]
This paper analyses the rationale for restricting the international trade in art, namely protection of the national artistic patrimony. The meaning of national patrimony is analysed and rationales for state ownership and interventions in the art market ...
Clare McAndrew, John O'Hagan
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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THE IMPACT OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS ON CULTURE [PDF]
Production began to decline, more and more signs of recession occurred, the GDP diminished in real terms so that the signs of economic crisis became visible in all components of the social system (and in the culture subsystem, as well).
Maria MOLDOVEANU, Valeriu IOAN-FRANC
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