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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 507-531, June 2026.Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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Gephyra, 2023 The wealth and possessions of Roman senators in the imperial period consisted predominantly in land property, as emphasized by Pliny the Younger (epist. 3,19,8).
Andreas Klingenberg
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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 21-37, March 2026.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 56, Issue 11, Page 1302-1314, November 2025.This paper presents a new protocol for the laboratory preparation of archaeological samples. Ceramics that have been hand‐crafted using different sediments as raw materials were collected in a Roman Villa sited in Fiumana (FC), Italy. This method aims at concentrating and analysing heavy minerals in the 15–250 μm grain size fraction, studying the ...
S. Andò +6 more
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Tectonics, Volume 44, Issue 9, September 2025.Abstract The Hellenic forearc is one of the least understood forearc systems globally due to limited availability of high‐resolution imagery of its deep structure, especially landward of the Mediterranean Ridge. Here, we combine widely spaced high‐resolution multichannel seismic‐reflection profiles with seafloor morpho‐bathymetric analysis and ...
Vasiliki Mouslopoulou +7 more
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The Lost Large Mammals of Arabia
Journal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 6, June 2025.ABSTRACT Aim If successful, plans to restore the vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula (AP) as announced by the Middle East and Saudi Green Initiatives will see the greatest increase in vegetation cover since the beginning of the Holocene Humid Phase (HHP), roughly 9–10,000 years ago.
Christopher Clarke, Sultan M. Alsharif
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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Pliny the Younger and the problem of translatio cadaveris [PDF]
Krytyka Prawa, 2016 W korespondencji pomiędzy namiestnikiem Bitynii i Pontu w latach 111–113 n.e. oraz cesarzem Trajanem znalazł się wątek związany z dopuszczalnością ekshumacji oraz przenosin zwłok do innego miejsca pochówku. Pliniusz, który był zaznajomiony z rzymskimi praktykami w tym zakresie, zwrócił się do cesarza z prośbą o radę, jaki model postępowania ma przyjąć ...
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 345-363, December 2024.Abstract Through the prism of Voltaire's letters on the Quakers (1733) and John Boyle's riposte in his preface to Father Brumoy's The Greek Theatre (1759), some Shakespeare criticism of the period is shown to have drawn on issues of religious controversy, in this case, Methodist enthusiasm, to formulate some of the principal tenets of fledgling ...
Jonathan P.A. Sell
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Une pompe hydraulique romaine en bois en contexte d’incendie à Reims/Durocortorum
Gallia, 2023 A wooden water two-cylinder force pump was discovered in 2016 during a rescue archaeological excavation at 45 rue de Thillois in Reims. The discovery of this type of ancient hydraulic device is quite rare. Indeed, it is only the nineteenth specimen to be
Cyril Driard
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