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5. Rome: The Decline of the Roman Empire
, 1958 The decline of the Roman Empire is a theme which has captured the imagination of countless men . The Roman achievement, both in its material and cultural aspects, was of such magnitude that its passing invites consideration on that account alone.
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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SOME THOUGHTS ON THE DEMISE OF ROMAN INFLUENCE IN NORTH AFRICA, 5th/ 6th CENTURY AD
Akroterion, 2012 When one thinks of the once mighty Roman Empire, a vision of the proverbial “eternal city” of Rome with its beautiful white colonnaded marble buildings comes to mind.
L. Cilliers
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A brigetiói üveggyártó műhely néhány jellemző üvegleletének műszeres analitikai vizsgálata [PDF]
, 2012 The glass was produced by the same recipe all over the Roman Empire and its chemical composition varied in a narrow range. There is no consensus whether the base glass was produced in few centres and then distributed for further processing, or base ...
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History, EarlyView.Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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The Dark Age Church Period of Barbarian Invasions [PDF]
, 2009 With the endorsement of the Emperor and obligatory church membership for all Roman citizens across the empire, Roman Christianity continued to change the nature of the Church, in stead of visa versa.
Fanning, Don
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Administración imperial y el poder adquisitivo en la Antigüedad Tardía : los agentes del poder desde la perspectiva de Sinésio [PDF]
, 2014 Based on the comparative analysis between the Theodosian Code, specifically the laws promulgated in the fourth century, and the discourses De Regno and De Providentia of Synesius of Cyrene, produced on the occasion of his embassy to Constantinople, we
Farias Junior, José Petrúcio de
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Collyria seals in the Roman Empire [PDF]
, 2013 Roman seals associated with collyria (Latin expression for eye drops /washes and lotions for eye maintenance) provide valuable information about eye care in the antiquity.
Brautaset, Rune +4 more
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