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This article explores fourth‐ to seventh‐century narratives about oaths of collective secrecy, which our sources typically frame negatively. By examining the terminology used in reference to these promises, the dynamics inherent in the practice and its relationship to oath‐taking customs in other contexts, and the influence of Christianity on the ...
Michael Wuk
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„Grüne” Partikeltechnik? “Green” Particle Technology?
Gedanken zur Entwicklung der Partikeltechnik im Kontext des Klimawandels werden vorgestellt. An einigen Beispiele wird diskutiert, wie disperse Systeme zur Lösung aktueller technischer Fragen beitragen. Schließlich werden einige weiße Felder und offene Fragestellungen der Partikeltechnik im Kontext des Klimawandels benannt.
Wolfgang Peukert, Andreas Bück
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Wasser in der Erde und in kosmischen Eiswelten
Welche Rolle Wasser in der Dynamik des Inneren von Erde und Planeten sowie in vielen astrophysikalischen Prozessen spielt, ist noch weitgehend unklar. Dies liegt hauptsächlich an der Unzugänglichkeit solcher Orte. Daher kommt Laborexperimenten, die extreme Bedingungen im Inneren von Planeten und im Weltall zugänglich machen, eine hohe Bedeutung zu.
Thomas Loerting, Hanns‐Peter Liermann
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In the early medieval west, patronate, as adapted from Roman law, was a fundamental category in determining the legal status of freedmen. In many cases it entailed a basic set of obligations. In an increasing number of situations, however, the patron became an ecclesiastical institution, since slaves and freed persons were often given to churches and ...
Stefan Esders
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Lykaon, der Wolfsmann, und Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
Viele der rezenten Studien zur Ästhetik des Monströsen nehmen auf Michel Foucaults Vorlesungsreihe Les anormaux Bezug, in der er u. a. der diskursiven Transformation des Monsters von einem somatischen hin zu einem moralischen Abweichungsphänomen nachgeht.
Thomas Emmrich
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Nemo militans Deo implicat se saecularia negotia: Carolingian interpretations of II Timothy II.4
In II Timothy II.4, the apostle Paul forbids the servant of God to involve himself in saecularia negotia. While traditionally understood as a reference to commercial activities, for Carolingian thinkers the verse became a way to reflect on the political engagement of prelates and the relationship between religious and secular duties carried out by ...
Gerda Heydemann
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Abstract The paper reconstructs the tension between the then emerging approach of emphasising authorial innovation and the traditional learned practice of adapting and reusing existing texts, which was cultivated in the early modern ars excerpendi. In 1717, a case of plagiarism occurred in the midst of a new historiographical genre (Reichshistorie) and
Daniel Fulda
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La letteratura cristiana nella produzione letteraria del tardo antico
This essay aims to illustrate the main features of ancient Christian litera-ture, focusing in particular on multilingualism, multiculturalism, popularity and functionality.
Emanuela Prinzivalli
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Luci e ombre del Tardoantico nelle Costituzioni Sirmondiane
The text aims to propose a summary speech on Constitutiones Sirmondianae, highlighting the various grounds for discussion that have arisen from reading them since the first edition of 1631: discovery, attribution, authenticity, and above all the themes ...
Anna Maria Giomaro
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In memory of Franco Gnoli, this essay is an assessment of him as a master of Roman criminal law, through an indication of the most important conclusions reached in his research on crimen sacrilegii.
Fabio Botta
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