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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Une statue assise gallo-romaine de tradition celtique à Meillant (Cher)
Revue Archéologique du Centre de la France, 2011 An anthropomorphic stone statue was discovered in the park of the Château of Meillant (Cher) during the 1970s. This article provides a study of this sculpture which will be added to those of a series of Bituriges Gallo-Roman statues in sitting position.
Sophie Krausz, Gérard Coulon
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
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Image as Contemplation Medium: Distributed Cogniton and the Extended Mind Theory [PDF]
In Medias Res, 2018 Andy Clark famously stated that humans are capable of transferring some of their cognitive functions into the environment in particular circumstances – he named it the “extended mind theory”. This theory has been widely debated since its first appearance
Josipa Lulić
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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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The Minories Eagle : a new sculpture from London’s eastern Roman cemetery
, 2017 The limestone sculpture of an eagle firmly clasping a serpent in its beak was recovered from within the eastern Roman cemetery of London on the last day of excavations at 24–26 Minories, EC3 in September 2013.
Lerz, Antonietta
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Apollon au Vieil-Évreux : de Lugus à saint Taurin
Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 2013 Apollon in Le Vieil-Évreux: from Lugus to Saint Taurin. Resuming the study of the Apollo from the Vieil-Evreux, a Gallo-Roman bronze sculpture discovered on the sanctuary in 1840, this work has as an aim to propose a new interpretation of it, while ...
Martin Szewczyk
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
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Intertextuality and Roman visual culture : A new approach to Roman ideal sculpture
, 2015 The aim of this project is to acquire new knowledge regarding the role of ideal sculpture in the Roman world. Since the mid-19th century, such sculptures have been studied primarily as Roman copies of Greek originals, using the method of copy criticism ...
Habetzeder, Julia,
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Lion roman marble sculpture (Évora)
, 2019 Roman marble sculpture dated in the 2nd century AD which represents a lion of great dimensions. It is a sculpture that would have served as a fountain, leaving the water through the lion's mouth.
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