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From Quarries to Urban Construction Sites: Middle‐Late Mesozoic Limestones in the Public Architecture of Roman Verona, Italy

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT Numerous buildings, monuments, and infrastructural works in Verona were constructed during the Roman period using stone, a material abundantly available from quarrying areas located relatively close to the city. Petrographic investigations conducted by Transmitted Polarized Light Optical Microscopy (TPL‐OM) and complemented by colorimetric ...
Eliana Bridi   +3 more
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La provincia romana de la Mauretania Tingitana. Algunas visiones actualizadas

open access: yesGerión, 2011
Visión actual de la provincia romana de la Mauretania Tingitana, a partir de las publicaciones más recientes, en las que se han analizado aspectos como la economía, la relación de la administración romana con las tribus indígenas, la religión, el ...
Enrique Gozalbes Cravioto
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Un "flaminalis" procedente de Riolobos y otras manifestaciones del culto imperial en "Capera"

open access: yesCuadernos de Arqueología de la Universidad de Navarra, 2017
Una nueva lectura de esta inscripción de Riolobos (HEp 4, 1994: 246) permite constatar el primer flamen documentado en la epigrafía de Cáceres. Se completa este trabajo con un breve estudio de las manifestaciones del culto imperial en Capera a través de ...
Julio Esteban Ortega
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
wiley   +1 more source

The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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Mentalidad romana y creencias en el ámbito de la meseta sur

open access: yesStudia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2010
RESUMEN: La influencia de la mentalidad y las formas religiosas romanas sobre la cultura indígena aparece ampliamente representada en los testimonios epigráficos, y arqueológicos procedentes de la Meseta Sur.
Julián HURTADO AGUÑA
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Figurillas de encapuchados hispanorromanos: Definición, clasificación e interpretación

open access: yesArchivo Español de Arqueología, 2015
Las figurillas de encapuchados o cucullati fueron frecuentes en el mundo romano. El característico cucullus fue usado tanto por hombres de baja consideración social como por personas pudientes que deseaban no ser reconocidos; y con esta capucha y manto ...
Javier Salido Domínguez   +1 more
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The Fashioning of the Humanist Governor at the Dawn of a New Political and Cultural Era: Francesco Barbaro as Podestà of Venetian Vicenza

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 473-492, September 2025.
Abstract The patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) is well known for having been both a first‐class humanist and a figurehead of the Venetian government in the new territories of the Stato da Terra. This article explores the pioneering use of humanist culture in the official praises he received during his political career, which helped shape a ...
Clémence Revest
wiley   +1 more source

La filosofía de Nicolás Maquiavelo y la religión

open access: yesEstudios de Derecho, 2013
No se puede calificar a Maquiavelo como un filósofo ateo, pues tanto Dios, como la religión, estuvieron presentes en sus obras. Si bien su interpretación de la historia está signada por un marcado secularismo, menciona a Dios en varios textos.
Julio Juan Ruiz
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Ordo renascendi est crescere posse malis (Rutilius Namatianus I.140): the sack of Rome and the resilience of western Roman aristocracies

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 139-157, May 2025.
Rutilius Namatianus’ poem De reditu suo was written a few years after the devastation of Rome in 410. It has been read as nostalgia for Rome’s past greatness written in a climate of senatorial escapism. This article revises this reading, instead analysing the poem as the literary expression of resilience on the part of the traditional western ...
Sophie Kultzen
wiley   +1 more source

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