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What is adoration? Contesting meaning in the margins of the Opus Caroli regis contra synodum (c.790–4)

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 387-411, August 2024.
Contradictions over the meaning of adoration (adoratio) in Theodulf of Orléans’ Opus Caroli regis contra synodum have been used to minimize the role of mistranslation in the late eighth‐century Greek–Latin dispute over images. This study, however, scrutinizes the contested meaning of adoration in the original manuscript to expose tensions among ...
Huw Foden
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Romano-British people and the language of sociology [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Royal epistolary courtship in Latin? Arthur Tudor's “love letter” to Katherine of Aragon at the Archivo General de Simancas and Francesco Negri's Ars Epistolandi☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 245-264, April 2024.
Abstract The Archivo General de Simancas in Valladolid has preserved a letter attributed to Arthur Tudor, categorized as ‘declarándole su ardiente pasión amorosa’ [declaring his ardent loving passion]. Its recipient has been thought to be Katherine of Aragon.
K. P. S. Janssen, Nadia T. van Pelt
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Metaphorical Picture of Tiberius in Tacitus’s Annals

open access: yesClassica Cracoviensia, 2013
Metaphorical Picture of Tiberius in Tacitus’s Annals The paper discusses the way of presenting Tiberius in Tacitus’ Annals; it concentrates on the analysis of diction and metaphors (Tiberius as a snake, the metaphors of clothing, of siege and of fire)
Justyna Migdał
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Blood Over Soil: The Misconception of Nazi Environmentalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Most people do not immediately think of environmentalism when they hear the term “Nazi.” Nazis were racist imperialists who killed millions of people. Is it possible for the genocidal policies of the Third Reich to be compatible with green politics and ...
Cranney, Kevin
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Twisty Little Passages: The Several Editions of Lady Caroline Lamb\u27s Glenarvon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A literary criticism of the book Glenarvon, by Lady Caroline Lamb is presented. It presents the symbolic significance of the characters. It outlines the consequences of denying true love and the importance of aristocratic leadership and self-control ...
Douglass, Paul
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Strabón a Tacitus o počátcích dějin České kotliny

open access: yesArcheologické Rozhledy, 2016
V článku je probráno několik postřehů k interpretaci dvou zpráv antických autorů o poměrech v České kotlině v období přelomu letopočtů. Strabón (Geogr.
Ivan Prchlík
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...Brevique Adnotatione Critica...: a preliminary history of the Oxford classical texts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
On 3 July 1896, at one of the less regular meetings of the Delegates of Oxford University Press (OUP) held during the Long Vacation, approval was given to publication of the Oxford Classical Texts (OCT) series.
Whitaker, G.
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