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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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İlk İki Yüzyılın Pagan Kaynaklarında Nasıralı İsa

Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi İslam Tetkikleri Merkezi Dergisi, 2017
Pagan yazarlar, Miladî takvimin ilk iki yüzyılında Nasıralıİsa’ya veya O’na atfedilen öğretilere karşı genel itibariyle ilgisizbir tutum içinde olmuşlardır; I. yüzyılda İsa’dan bahseden paganyazar yoktur, II.
Zafer Duygu
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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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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY

History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 403-431, September 2024.
ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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Tacitus

, 2019
Due to the relative sparseness of Parthian sources, Tacitus’ data on Parthia, chiefly included in the Annals, but scattered also in his other works (the Historiae and Germania), is of particular importance (Walser; Sonnabend; Ehrhardt; Thommen; cf. Pfordt; Lerouge, pp. 129-49).
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Karl Schellbach (1804–1892)—One of the fathers of the finite element method?

Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Volume 24, Issue 2, August 2024.
Abstract Calculations by aerospace and automotive engineers in the 1950s for industrial applications are usually viewed as the beginnings of the Finite Element Method (FEM). However, some of its basic ideas can already be found on earlier occasions. One of the examples already discussed in the literature is the treatment of the brachistochrone problem ...
Peter Ullrich
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Narrative Performanz. Vorschlag zu einer neuen Lektüre von Geschlecht in taciteischen Texten

Eugesta, 2011
Tacitus kennt Geschlecht nicht als Kategorie der historischen Analyse. Und dennoch schreibt sich Geschlecht in seinen Text ein und bestimmt sein historisches Urteil: In der Darstellung männlicher und weiblicher Figuren verwendet Tacitus die ...
Thomas Späth
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Treasure bequest: death and gift in the early middle ages [PDF]

, 1998
Book synopsis: This collection of twenty-two original essays investigates the organising forces of social identity and power in early Medieval Europe, spanning literary and historical texts, artefacts and archeological ...
Janes, Dominic
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Who in the world are the Heruli?1

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 284-305, August 2024.
The history of the Heruli represents a historical conundrum. Because of the poor state of the sources, caution is required when analysing this subject. However, the peculiarity of the case encourages us to rethink the way we conceive of and describe migrations in Late Antiquity.
Salvatore Liccardo
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Hobbes et Spinoza lecteurs de Tacite : histoire et politique

Astérion, 2020
Tacitists use the historian’s work as a source of advice for rulers. Hobbes and Spinoza, however, use Tacitus’ accounts as materials with which to formulate their theory of affects and to explain the role they play in politics.
Marta Libertà De Bastiani
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