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Sorveglianti e custodi nei testi di Ebla, fra lessico e prosopografia
The article focuses on the attestations of the Sumerograms en-nun-ak and igi-sig in the Ebla texts. Confirming that the two terms indicate activities of surveillance and custody, the discussion of various prosopographical and lexical matters permits to ...
Amalia Catagnoti
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ABSTRACT This article presents an unpublished Sabaic inscription from the ʾAwām sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah, near Maʾrib. The inscription sheds new light on the mid‐third century ad adventures of a mqtwy (‘officer’) of the Sabaean kings already known from epigraphic evidence: Whbʾwm Yʾḏf.
Justine Potts
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Digital Prosopography and Global Irish Networks
The Clericus.ie is a digital humanities research project in the area of digital prosopography. The project developer a reliable, flexible and accessible digital platform to accommodate large quantities of biographical information on individuals and ...
O'Connor, Thomas +2 more
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The rulership of Pippin I of Aquitaine
This article uses the reign of Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) as a case study for the historiographical concept of ‘sub‐rulership’ in Carolingian Francia. It unpicks how Pippin’s status varied over time, arguing that Pippin’s rulership represents well the tension between kingship as an office and as a dynastic status.
Eddie Meehan
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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Prosobab is an open access, online prosopography of Babylonia (c. 620–330 BCE) with information on some 21,000 persons attested in 5000 cuneiform tablets. We have extracted all the Prosobab data from a database dump and converted it into two formats that
Heidi Jauhiainen, Tero Alstola
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Prosopography Database Rotterdam Research
Main part of prosopography data as collected in the Rotterdam Project (1990-2014), a research project into historic theatre audience and social composition of theatre patrons.
H.M.M. van Vliet (3675487)
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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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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 article focuses on the most important Commission for the reform of the Italian welfare state during the twentieth century: the “Rava Commission”. It conducts a first time prosopographical study of its members aiming to analyse the ideas and proposals
Andrea Rapini
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