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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–
Biehler-Gomez L +5 more
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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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Merlin Falco columbarius preys and feeds offshore
Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2023 This short report describes two cases of predation carried out by Merlin Falco columbarius in open sea, highlighting the ability of this species to feed during active migration.
Fulvio Fraticelli +5 more
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Critical Hermeneutics, 2021 Emilio Betti non è stato solo tra i più grandi romanisti e giuristi dell’epoca contemporanea, ma storico e filosofo. Come studioso di diritto, richiederebbero certamente una riconsiderazione e valutazione critica i suoi scritti sui grandi temi della ...
Angelo Antonio Cervati +2 more
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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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Natural History Sciences, 2013 Viene fornita una panoramica generale della distribuzione in Italia di Anoxia (Mesanoxia) matutinalis matutinalis Laporte de Castelnau, 1832, aggiungendo Lombardia e Umbria alle regioni in cui questa specie è riportata come presente in Italia.
Filippo Ceccolini, Fausto Barbagli
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Species diversity and distribution of amphibians and reptiles in Sardinia, Italy
Acta Herpetologica, 2022 Although distribution databases are a dynamic tool, continuously updated, it is important to take “snapshots” of the species distribution over time to promptly identify potential conservation issues.
Claudia Corti +8 more
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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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