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Sex Differences in Frailty in Milan Over the Last 2000 Years: A Hazards-Based and Cumulative Phenotype Approach. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives Frailty in bioarchaeology has garnered increasing interest in recent decades, particularly for analyzing and comparing past health across different groups and populations. A hazards‐based cumulative phenotype approach was applied to 492 adult males and females from five consecutive historical periods in the city of Milan: Roman (2nd–
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"We Are the Sons of Our Own Deeds": Comparing Skeletal Health and Frailty Indices in Deceased Individuals Across 2000 Years of Milanese History. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives In bioarchaeology, the concepts of resilience and frailty, and their quantification through indices, have gathered significant attention. This study is the first to apply, evaluate, and compare skeletal frailty indices and aims to trace frailty over time while identifying methodological challenges in their use on a sample ...
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Qualifying Mediterranean connectivity: Byzantium and the Franks during the seventh century
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 380-404, August 2023., 2023 In the last two decades, historians researching the seventh century ce have increasingly emphasized mobility, communications and connectivity across the Mediterranean world that supposedly included close contacts between the Franks and Byzantium. These studies, however, rely often on optimistic, maximum interpretations of the comparatively sparse ...
Mischa Meier, Steffen Patzold
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Simon of Tournai's Stroke: The Image of an Irate Unbeliever
Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 243-273, June 2023., 2023 For centuries after his death in the late twelfth century, Simon of Tournai, a master of theology in the Parisian schools, had a reputation for being an unbeliever punished by God with a stroke. This article gathers the eight known medieval sources for his stroke and examines them from a mythogenetic perspective to demonstrate how different authors ...
Keagan Brewer
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‘I was Born in One City, but Raised in Another’: Aretino's Perugian Apprenticeship
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 166-191, April 2023., 2023 Abstract According to his apocrypha, Aretino was forced to flee his hometown of Arezzo after penning some anti‐papal verses. Similarly, it is claimed that he fled Perugia ten years later after painting a lute into the hands of a depiction of the Maddalena, which stood in one of the town's piazze.
William T. Rossiter
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 536-557, November 2022., 2022 Around 1000, a new type of law‐book emerged in Catalonia and northern Italy that attests to new ways of handling legal material. Incorporating in full the Visigothic and Lombard law codes, respectively, these law‐books provided a base for studying and interpreting old law through comments, glosses etc., addressing new users such as lay judges.
Stefan Esders
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Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-21, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper reconsiders a curious aspect of the Vandal kingdom of North Africa (439–533 ce): the total absence of women called Vandals in extant sources. It argues that these missing Vandal women are the women of the Hasding royal dynasty. The non‐application of the ethnic terminology to the consorts, sisters and daughters of kings and princes ...
Robin Whelan
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A Donatello for Rome, a Memling for Florence. The maritime transports of the Sermattei of Florence†
Renaissance Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 658-674, September 2021., 2021 Abstract This article deals with the maritime transports of a little known but not unimportant Florentine merchant family. On the basis of previously unknown archival source material, we address questions of family history, mercantile networks, maritime trade connections, and merchandise (including some famous artworks), shedding new light not only on ...
Tobias Daniels, Arnold Esch
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Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne, 1975 Początki i wczesne dzieje ustroju rzymskiego (na marginesie książki Francesco De Martino, Storia della costitu- zione romana, t. I, Napoli, E. Jovene, 1972, wydanie drugie)
Adam Wiliński
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