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Looking up music in two ‘encyclopedias’ printed in 1501
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 563-594, September 2024.Abstract A modern user of a printed encyclopedia expects to find concise entries on a wide range of subjects organised alphabetically for ease of reference. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries a number of scholarly texts of a particularly long and wide‐ranging character were essentially ‘encyclopedized’ through the provision of compendious subject
Tim Shephard, Charlotte Hancock
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Archaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 719-738, August 2024.Abstract This case study examines the use of X‐ray fluorescence (XRF) as an effective method for defining distinct chemical compositions of local basalt stone from different sources in the Roman period, even when their quarries have not been identified.
Mechael Osband +2 more
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Religion, space and social status. Monastery founders in the Curvature Carpathians, Romania [PDF]
Cinq Continents, 2015 The area of the Curvature Carpathians was one of the three largest monastic centres in the mediaeval Romanian countries, and the only one which had concentrated around a previous vast network of rock - hewn churches.
CEZAR BUTEREZ
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 375-395, July/August 2024.Abstract A spring tunnel is an ancient water installation used to artificially increase the water yield of a spring through a subterranean tunnel. We have developed a database of 216 spring tunnels documented in the central region of the Southern Levant (present‐day Israel), constructed between Iron Age II and the modern era.
Azriel Yechezkel +4 more
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Perception of Surroundings: Materiality and Affect in the Russian Kustar Arts Revival
The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 3, Page 362-377, July 2024.Abstract Abramtsevo and Talashkino are well known for their handicraft workshops that participated in the revival of Russian folk arts known as kustarnichestvo at the turn of the last century. Typically examined in terms of its stylistic progenitors or as a manifestation of Russia’s nationalist politics, kustarnichestvo can also offer unique insights ...
Colleen McQuillen
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From Representation to Sabotage: The New Practices of Russian Antiwar Groups
The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 1, Page 66-78, January 2024.Abstract Since February 24, 2022, new oppositional groups—Feminist Antiwar Resistance (FAR), Stop the Wagons, Combat Organization of Anarcho‐Communists (BOAK), the Russian Freedom Legion, and others—have emerged in Russia. Politically, they range from socialist and anarchist to nationalist or fascist, and in their visual media present a range of ...
Ania Aizman
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Potentials and Challenges of Religious Tourism Development in Lalibela, Ethiopia. [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2018 The overall significance of tourism in general and more specifically religious tourism, is obtaining greater recognition from different scholars and organizations globally.
Berhanu Esubalew Bayih
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Keeping the Faith: The Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia
, 2017 Keeping the Faith: The Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia James Sasko Dr. Todd Hartch History Department Researching the churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia requires several key questions to begin the process: What are the rock-hewn churches of ...
Sasko, James E.
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Conservation Problems In Rock Sites Of Cappadocia And Its Rock-hewn Churches
, 2014 Tez (Yüksek Lisans) -- İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2014Thesis (M.Sc.) -- İstanbul Technical University, Institute of Science and Technology, 2014Tez çalışması giriş ve sonuç bölümleriyle birlikte beş ana bölümden oluşmaktadır ...
Bilgili, Bilal
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Tyragetia, 2016 Based on the research of many rock-hewn churches of the Romanian region, located in the Dobruja andaround the Carpathian mountain range, the author notes the existence there of a number of Christian churches belonging to the early Christian period and ...
Vlad D. Ghimpu
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