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Legacy and the Politics of Racial Terminology

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When a term carries a sordid past, it is tempting to think it should have no future use. Yet the normative life of a word is rarely exhausted by its origins. This article develops legacy analysis as a method for enriching evaluation of what should be done with historically burdened terms. Rather than treating origins as decisive, the framework
Paul‐Mikhail Catapang Podosky
wiley   +1 more source

Cosmopolitanism and the Roman Empire.: Political, Theological and Linguistic Responses—Three Case Studies (Cicero, Augustine, Valla)

Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, 2021
My article explores the tension between idealized cosmopolitan ideas, of a single citizenry for all people in the world, and imperial Roman nationalism between the late Roman Republic and the Italian Renaissance.
Christoph Pieper
doaj   +2 more sources

Degradation of Seasonally Frozen Ground in the Three–River Source Region and Its Correlation Impact Within Precipitation–Runoff Process

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
This study reveals how climate change alters the water cycle in the Three Rivers Source region by degrading its important ‘solid groundwater’ (seasonally frozen ground). We found that runoff response varies by watershed and the role of permafrost decreases sharply, making water supply more dependent on rainfall and becoming increasingly vulnerable ...
Chenchen Ren, Xiangde Xu, Jieru Ma, Bingrong Zhou, Na Dong, Wenyue Cai, Chunzhu Wang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dark Rituals; Magical Relics 2019 [PDF]

, 2019
Dark Rituals; Magical Relics is an internationally touring group exhibition of seven women artists that has secured Australia Council for the Arts funding of $44,409 with additional in kind support from its key regional university partners University of ...
Baguley, Margaret, Coleman, Ellie, Atkins, Amalie, Martin-Chew, Louise, Shantz, Susan, Reihana, Lisa, Clark, Linda, Batorowicz, Beata, Williams, Megan   +8 more
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Jewelled Byzantine and Medieval Reliquaries of the True Cross: Peridots and Other Gemstones in Material and Symbolic Perspective

Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, EarlyView.
An interdisciplinary in situ study of jewelled reliquaries of the True Cross integrates gemmology and portable analytical techniques, revealing new evidence on the identification and symbolic role of peridots and other gemstones. ABSTRACT Jewelled crosses containing relics of the True Cross occupy a central position in the devotional, artistic and ...
Stefania Martiniello, Stefano Legnaioli, Simona Raneri   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The hunt for Scabiosa trenta Hacq: how the pursuit of a phantom ignited a passion for botany and mountaineering

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Scabiosa trenta Hacq. was first described in 1782 by Balthasar Hacquet, with its specific epithet referring to the Trenta Valley in Slovenia. Since then, S. trenta has been the focus of numerous mountaineering and botanical expeditions, particularly by the alpinist Julius Kugy during the Golden Age of Alpinism, a period in the second half of 19th ...
Valentina Boscariol, Marco Canella, Sara Natale, Špela Pungaršek, Francesco Dal Grande, Elena Canadelli   +5 more
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John Scottus Eriugena and the Entangled Materiality of Vox

Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures
This article seeks to explicate John Scottus Eriugena’s arguments about the ontological status of vox in his commentary on Priscian, the In Priscianum. Eriugena draws from Stoic, Peripatetic, and early medieval philosophical definitions to arrive at an ...
Paul Vinhage
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Dark Rituals; Magical Relics 2018 [PDF]

, 2019
Dark Rituals; Magical Relics is a touring group exhibition of seven national and international artists that has secured Australia Council for the Arts funding of $44,409 with additional in kind support from its key regional university partners University
Baguley, Margaret, Coleman, Ellie, Atkins, Amalie, Shantz, Susan, Reihana, Lisa, Clark, Linda, Batorowicz, Beata, Williams, Megan   +7 more
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Unveiling Saint Theobald: A Multidisciplinary Bioanthropological Investigation

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Saint Theobald of Provins (1033–1066), a French nobleman who embraced voluntary poverty, hermitism, and pilgrimage, represents an early figure in the medieval ascetic movement. He holds historical significance for the diffusion of 11th‐century ascetic ideals, as a hermit saint associated with the Camaldolese order and venerated across northern
Nicola Carrara, Cicero Moraes, Luca Bezzi, Alberto Zanatta, Luca Pagani, Gilberto Artioli, Cinzia Scaggion   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shock acceleration efficiency in radio relics [PDF]

Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2019
Context. Radio relics in galaxy clusters are giant diffuse synchrotron sources powered in cluster outskirts by merger shocks. Although the relic–shock connection has been consolidated in recent years by a number of observations, the details of the ...
A. Botteon, G. Brunetti, D. Ryu, S. Roh
semanticscholar   +1 more source