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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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Layers. Archeologia Territorio Contesti, 2018 : This article describes the preliminary survey conducted on field by the author in Serri in the sanctuary of Santa Vittoria, as part of the activities of Greek and Roman Archaeology of the University of Cagliari.
Dario D'Orlando
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 473-492, September 2025.Abstract The patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) is well known for having been both a first‐class humanist and a figurehead of the Venetian government in the new territories of the Stato da Terra. This article explores the pioneering use of humanist culture in the official praises he received during his political career, which helped shape a ...
Clémence Revest
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Acta Herpetologica, 2019 How a native gecko manages to coexist with an alien rodent in the Mediterranean since thousands of years? What kind of eco-ethological adaptations or evolutionary adjustments enables this gecko to persist?
Michel-Jean Delaugerre +5 more
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I cambiamenti etnici sulla penisola Italica dalla guerra sociale alla morte dell’imperatore Augusto
Studia Universitatis Hereditati, 2017 Lo scopo principale del contributo è illustrare sulla base di fonti greche e latine i cambiamenti della composizione etnica sulla penisola italica nel primo secolo a. C., più precisamente dalla guerra sociale (91-88 a. C.) alla morte di Augusto (14 d. C.)
Jadranka Cergol
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 139-157, May 2025.Rutilius Namatianus’ poem De reditu suo was written a few years after the devastation of Rome in 410. It has been read as nostalgia for Rome’s past greatness written in a climate of senatorial escapism. This article revises this reading, instead analysing the poem as the literary expression of resilience on the part of the traditional western ...
Sophie Kultzen
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«Gemelli cultores»: coppie agiografiche nella letteratura latina del VI secolo
Reti Medievali Rivista, 2010 Le fonti agiografiche, attentamente considerate, possono offrire un contributo non irrilevante allo studio del concetto di amicitia in ambito monastico.
Edoardo Ferrarini
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Acta Herpetologica, 2022 Natural history museums are irreplaceable tools to study and preserve the biological diversity around the globe and among the primary actors in the recognition of species and the logical repositories for their type specimens.
Franco Andreone +43 more
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Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 109-124, March 2025.Abstract This article focuses on four individuals from France and Italy who were viewed as hermaphrodites and their attempts to become members of the Catholic clergy between c.1650 and 1720. Drawing on largely unexplored material from the archive of the Roman Congregation of the Council, this article argues that whether, and how, bodies were ...
Brendan Röder
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