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Personification in mosaics in the Cilicia region during the Roman Imperial Period

open access: yes, 2020
Roma İmparatorluk Dönemi'nde, çeşitli bölgelerde, alışıldık mitolojik sahneli ve dekoratif mozaiklerin yanı sıra personifikasyonlu mozaik örnekleri görülmeye başlamıştır.
Balıkçı, Betül
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Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
wiley   +1 more source

Conflict in Corinth : the appropriateness of honour-shame as the primary social context

open access: yes, 2012
Many recent studies in contemporary social anthropology have noted the vital import of the concepts of honour and shame and how these are able both to generate ideas of social identity within a community, and, in particular, to elucidate patterns of ...
Finney, Mark T.
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The Roman imperial cult

open access: yes, 2021
Rimski carski kult formirao se pod utjecajem Istoka gdje je bilo uobičajeno iskazivati božanske počasti istaknutim pojedincima. Kult dobročinitelja i kult vladara, uz utjecaj privatne aristokratske religije na javnu rimsku religiju, rezultirali su ...
Jerčić, Magdalena
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Geographies of Provincialism in Roman Sculpture

open access: yesRIHA Journal, 2010
Focusing on Roman Britain but using examples across the empire, this article examines the relevance of geography to the form and distribution of "provincialized" classical imagery in the Roman period.
Stewart, Peter
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Clamosi gloria Circi

open access: yesKeria: Studia Latina et Graeca
Although Roman chariot racing is known to have been one of the most popular types of Roman sporting spectacle, the real circumstances of its protagonists remain unclear in many respects.
Rok Ribič
doaj   +1 more source

The "merveilleux" as represented in Roman historiography of the Imperial period

open access: yes, 1987
The ubiquity of the merveilleux in the historiography of the roman Empire cannot be explained away as the ravings of a so-called "primitive mentality". Historiographers consistently exhibited their scepticism by submitting marvellous events to rational critique.
openaire   +1 more source

Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
wiley   +1 more source

Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an injustice to history. Consigning acknowledges that a historical injustice took place but denies that it has any ongoing relevance for the present ...
Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
wiley   +1 more source

Morphological study of the supratrochlear foramen in Canis lupus ssp.

open access: yesJournal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
The supratrochlear foramen (STF) is a common anatomical feature in the humeri of dogs and wolves. This study shows that the STF exhibits a consistent shape and position in dogs and wolves, suggesting a common morphological pattern; however, it was less frequent in smaller dog humeri, and its size correlated with humeral dimensions, suggesting that ...
Mariana Batista   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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