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The Ladies’ Alpine Club, Embattled Collaboration and International Communities of Knowledge, 1907–39

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers the development of the Ladies’ Alpine Club from its inception until the Second World War through its Yearbooks, articles and lectures, as part of a community of knowledge which was devoted to international mountaineering.
James Watts
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The evolution of roman frontier defence systems and fortifications the lower danube provinces in the first and second centuries AD [PDF]

, 2001
The defence of the Roman Empire from barbarian attacks depended on two distinct but interrelated features: the actual fortifications on the borders of the imperial provinces and the troops that garrisoned them.
Karavas, John
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Ancient coins in the classroom: using the OCRE imperial coin database to support Year 12 students’ learning of Roman imperial image

The Journal of Classics Teaching
This study concerns how the Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE) database of imperial coins can support Year 12 students to learn about Roman imperial image on coins for their Classical Civilisation Imperial Image paper.
Giles Thomas Penman
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Family Work Among the Astors

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
wiley   +1 more source

Roman imperial Period Anatolian Libraries

, 2017
Roma İmparatorluk Dönemi Anadolu Kütüphaneleri kültür tarihi açısından literatürde önemli bir yer teşkil etmektedir. Bundan dolayı günümüze ulaşan ve kütüphane olarak tanımlanan yapı kalıntıları arkeolojik çalışmalara konu olmaktadır.
Usanmaz, Uygar Ozan
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THE ROMAN IMPERIAL PERIOD SARCOPHAGUS FROM THE VILLAGE OF KAHRAMANMARAS-ELBISTAN-ALKAYAOGLU (ELBISTAN CITY MUSEUM) [PDF]

Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья
The subject of this study is a sarcophagus discovered during illegal excavations in the village of Alkayaoglu (Elbistan District) and subsequently transferred to the Elbistan City Museum following a report by the local gendarmerie.
Eker, F.
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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Environmental Change and Imperial Governance

Journal for the History of Environment and Society
This study offers a new perspective on the relationship between environmental variability, fluctuations in Nile flood patterns, and Roman administrative responses in Egypt during the Imperial and late Roman periods.
Sabine R. Huebner
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

The Beginning of the Imperial Cult in Hispania in the Augustan Era

Gerión, 2017
Contrary to the assertions which linked the beginnings of the imperial cult in Hispania to the influence of indigenous traditions, evidence of Augustan period stresses the role of Roman authority and, in particular, of military commanders, with the ...
Francisco Marco Simón
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