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Abstract The BookSampo Linked Data portal was deployed in 2011 by the Finnish Public Libraries and has today nearly 2 million annual users. Its Linked Data covers virtually all Finnish fiction literature but the data has not been used for data analyses in Digital Humanities. This paper discusses how the Knowledge Graph can be used for literary research
Annastiina Ahola +2 more
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Il y a quelques semaines, je surpris la photocopieuse de l’IHMC, située au troisième étage du couloir D du 45, rue d’Ulm, en train d’expulser un flot de copies d’actes de naissance de la fin du xixe siècle. De l’autre côté du couloir, la porte entrebâillée laissa apercevoir Christophe Charle lancé, une fois de plus, dans l’un de ses sports favoris ...
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On the Field: Race, Gender and Sports in Colonial Ghana
Abstract This article analyses Ghanaian women's sport practice from the late nineteenth century to the late 1950s, from games intertwined with displays of colonial authority to school competitions, physical education and tennis. The article argues that their performances played with changing categorisations of African girlhood and womanhood, especially
Claire Nicolas
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The fall of imperial authority and the decline of the Byzantine state at the end of the 12th century has its cause not only in foreign policy but also, to a large extent, in the family policy of the Komnenoi emperors.
Paweł Lachowicz
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Gatekeepers and lock masters: the control of access in the Neo-Assyrian palaces [PDF]
Book description: This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase, ‘Your praise is sweet’ is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literature. The scope
Radner, K
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Romans 1 by 1 v.1.1 New developments in the study of Roman population
The proposed paper documents Romans 1by1, a population database working on Roman-era inscriptions. The database architecture is built for accommodating all categories of people attested epigraphically.
Rada Varga
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Abstract This article analyses the neutrality of the parliamentary presidency by comparing the models of the speakership in the United Kingdom and the presidency in France, Italy, Portugal and Spain in continental Europe. The article considers the various bodies that direct parliamentary work: the speakership and the presidency as one‐person bodies ...
Mikel Urquijo
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At the crossroads of different traditions. Social and cultural dynamics in Roman Thrace through the epigraphic practice [PDF]
Il presente articolo studia i processi di integrazione della Tracia nel mondo romano attraverso l'analisi di tre fenomeni tra loro correlati: diffusione della lingua latina; diffusione della cittadinanza romana; diffusione dei nomi romani. Per illustrare
Francesco Camia
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Visualising and mapping historical networks of international diplomatic training
Short Abstract Building on the established use of biography to focus transnational analyses within a complex abundance of sources, this article complements this close‐reading with computational methods of distant‐reading. It examines the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) to analyse a large dataset of ...
Jonathan Harris
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The ends of history? Jerome, Geruchia, and the Rhine crossings
This article revisits Jerome’s treatment of the Rhine crossings of 406 in his letter to the widow Geruchia, and the broader issue of breaching the Roman limes. It argues that his description of the events in Gaul and on the border was framed to fit his notion of the history of salvation.
Mateusz Fafinski
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