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Portraits, Power, and Patronage in the Late Roman Republic [PDF]
, 2000 Recent work in ancient art history has sought to move beyond formalist interpretations of works of art to a concern to understand ancient images in terms of a broader cultural, political, and historical context.
Tanner, J
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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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The Rise of Note-Taking in Early Modern Europe [PDF]
, 2010 The history of note-taking has only begun to be written. On the one hand, the basic functions of selecting, summarizing, storing and sorting information garnered from reading, listening, observing and thinking can be identified in most literate contexts ...
Blair, Ann M.
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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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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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Fantasmi in biblioteca. L’Antichità nel Manoscritto trovato a Saragozza [PDF]
, 2014 The present study deals with some references to ancient sources, especially in ghost stories, in the Manuscript Found in Saragossa, by Jean Potocki. Alongside stories that recall episodes of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (in particular from book I and book X),
Van Mal-Maeder, Danielle
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Does Orthographic Variation Preclude Standardisation?
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 3, Page 488-495, November 2024.Abstract In this response to Adams' article I begin by talking a bit, in a fairly atheoretical way, about definitions of standardisation. This is because Adams' argument that Latin was not, in the first century BC, a standard language, rests to a large degree on his own view of standardisation: one which approaches it very much from the perspective of ...
Nicholas Zair
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Tectonics, Volume 43, Issue 8, August 2024.Abstract Sets of marine terraces, sediments, and paleoshorelines are commonly found in forearc regions worldwide. A common assumption holds that crustal uplift prevents these features from littoral erosion. Here, we study the vertical deformation of Karpathos, a forearc island in the eastern Mediterranean, whose long axis extends at a high angle to the
Violeta Veliz‐Borel +6 more
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From the Enlightenment to the Digital Sunlight System : realistic visualization of Count Potocki’s Laurentine Villa : progress of the works [PDF]
, 2006 Оver the last years new technologies have opened up countless opportunities for the world of science and building virtual (digital) worlds is one of most interesting among them.
Baliszewski, Mikołaj, Tarkowski, Maciej
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 335-350, May/June 2024.Abstract Along the lower course of the Rioni and several minor rivers, more than 70 settlement mounds (local name: Dikhagudzuba) have been identified by field surveys and remote sensing techniques. They give evidence of a formerly densely populated landscape in the coastal lowlands on the Colchian plain (western Georgia) and have been dated to the ...
Hannes Laermanns +7 more
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