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In this article, an assumption has been made that in power centres, settlement concentration was accompanied by accumulation of goods, capital and weapons.
Tomasz Gralak
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Adhuc Tacfarinas: the causes of the Tiberian war in North Africa (AD ca. 15-24) and the impact of the conflict on Roman imperial policy [PDF]
During the reign of Tiberius successive governors of Africa Proconsularis struggled to suppress a serious revolt by a number of semi-nomadic tribes led by Tacfarinas.
Vanacker, Wouter
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Baltasar Álamos de Barrientos’ Tacito español, ilustrado con aforismos (1614) can be interpreted through a Foucauldian framework to explore shifts in early modern political thought.
Carolina Ferraro
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This essay attempts to gain insight into seventeenth-century conceptions of literary translation in the Low Countries by looking at one of its central figures, Joost van den Vondel.
Hermans, T
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Cognitive Theories of Galant Music at the Margins of Experience
ABSTRACT Leading cognitive studies of galant music treat schematism as both a device and an ethos. The devices – whether called pre‐fabs, tiles or schemata – undergird a mechanistic and passive ethos of inventiveness. In vision and practice, this constellation of approaches directs inquiry away from a musical depth that one contemplates and towards a ...
Edmund J. Goehring
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TACITUS is a natural language processing system that is intended to be general and domain-independent. It performs a syntactic analysis of the sentences in the text, producing a logical form. Next, inferential pragmatics processing is applied to the logical form to solve problems of schema recognition, reference resolution, metonymy resolution, and the
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Types of Freedom and Submission in Tacitus' Agricola [PDF]
Discusses conceptions of freedom displayed in Tacitus' Agricola. Tacitus seems to have had a clear-cut conceptual grid in which the German defectors, the Usipi, mirror the futile demonstrations of freedom by senators seeking a "ambitious death." The ...
Wildberger, Jula
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CAN HISTORY ABSOLVE? CAN HISTORY JUDGE?
ABSTRACT Appealing to history, rather than to God, to provide an ultimate judgment about human actions can have a justificatory or consolatory function. The former grants proleptic absolution for acts that may be morally dubious because of their benign consequences, while the latter enables victims in the present to gain a measure of relief by ...
MARTIN JAY
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Nowadays, Agrippina the Younger is the most famous woman of the Julio-Claudian dynasty because of her reputation of an incestuous mother and a cruel woman eager to dominate. But another woman in this family had a real influence.
Adeline Adam
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