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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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Poetic Baggage: Representations of Camp Followers in the Latin Verse Inscriptions
ElectrumEach unit of the Roman army constituted a major logistic operation that cannot be reduced to the fighting men who formed their core and purpose.
Chiara Cenati, Peter Kruschwitz
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Military territories in Hispania: New perspectives
Gerión, 2018 Epigraphic documents concerning military territorial limits are not very common, although the set from the north of the Iberian Peninsula is the largest in the Empire.
Ángel Morillo Cerdán +1 more
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Gallia, 2022 The triangular plateau of Lautagne overlooks the landscape south of Valence, and the Rhône, located a few hundred metres to the west. Combining a flat expanse of land, wide and steep slopes to the north and west, the area represents an ideal location for
Magalie Kielb Zaaraoui +3 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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The Roman Military Camp in ancient Hegra
, 2020 Peer ...
Fiema, Zbigniew Tomasz +1 more
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Vox Patrum, 2015 The aim of the present paper is to thoroughly reconstruct the meaning of the official cult ceremonies for the social life of the Roman Imperial army. Crucial to the analysis is the evidence produced by the Feriale Duranum, a papyrus document dating to ...
Tomasz Dziurdzik
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
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AN UNKNOWN COIN DIE OF AUGUSTUS (27 BC – 14 AD), FOUND NEAR OESCUS ON THE DANUBE
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2021 The paper presents an unknown coin die, which is for obverse of denarii of Augustus. The coin die is said to have been found many years ago in the vicinity of the village of Gigen, district of Pleven – near the ancient Roman colony of Ulpia Oescus and is
Metodi Yordanov Manov
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