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History, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 461-487, December 2024.Abstract This article establishes the intellectual origins and underpinnings of the early modern soldier‐scholar in order to better understand the military humanist tradition within which Sir Walter Ralegh's writings on naval warfare and logistics were conceived and composed. By locating Ralegh within this tradition, the article provides a new critical
MATTHEW WOODCOCK
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«Pugnam fugientum more petebant». Flaminius' march to Lake Trasimene between epic and historiography
GriseldaonlineThis paper deals with a passage from Silius Italicus’ Punica (v 28-33): Flaminius’ army marches towards Lake Trasimene disregarding the divisions between the troops and the usual order of march.
Luigi Maria Guerci
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Nationhood and Constitutionalism in the Dutch Republic: An Examination of Grotius' Antiquity of the Batavian Republic [PDF]
, 2017 The emphasis in contemporary democratic theory and in the history of political thought on the ‘natural rights’ theory of popular sovereignty of Locke, precursors of which are found in the work of Hugo Grotius and others, obscures
Alexander-Davey, Ethan
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 1116-1129, December 2024.Abstract This paper argues that Nietzsche is deliberately imprecise in his characterization of what he calls the slave revolt in morality. In particular, none of the people or groups he nominates as instigators of the slave revolt, namely, Jewish priests, the Jewish people, the prophets, Jesus, and Paul, were literally slaves.
Ken Gemes
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La Renaissance de Tacite: Commenter les Histoires et les Annales au XVIe siècle
Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern HistoriographyReview of Kevin Bovier, La Renaissance de Tacite. Commenter les Histoires et les Annales au XVIe siècle, Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2022, reviewed by Lorenzo ...
Lorenzo Paoli
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Romano-British people and the language of sociology [PDF]
, 2006 YesDespite the vast amount of work and the huge database for Roman Britain, the people of the province remain very difficult to discern. There are many reasons for this, but one is that we have not yet learned to look behind the disjecta membra of ...
McCarthy, Michael R.
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Qaryat al‐Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 136-154, November 2024.Abstract Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim (‘the City of [the god] Kahl’) is the Ancient South Arabian name of the modern site of Qaryat al‐Fāw. This compound refers to the tutelary deity of the city, in this case, a god called Kahl. However, the identity of this Kahl is obscure.
Juan de Lara
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Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 2004 For the Britons, their fears allayed by the absence of the dreaded legate, began to canvass the woes of slavery, to compare their wrongs and sharpen their sting in the telling. ‘We gain nothing by submission except heavier burdens for willing shoulders.’
Melania Cazzulo
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 474-502, November 2024.This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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