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Food for the soul and food for the body. Studying dietary patterns and funerary meals in the Western Roman Empire: An anthropological and archaeozoological approach. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Salazar-García DC +2 more
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Globalization and the Roman empire: the genealogy of ‘Empire’
, 2011 The use of concepts and ideas taken from the contemporary World in the studies on ancient Rome simply cannot be avoided. The studies that since 1990s onwards have criticized the term “Romanization” are not an exception. For this reason, the concept of “globalization” in reference to Ancient Rome can be helpful since it makes the anachronism in ...
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The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes
Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa
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The laws in the decline of the Empire: Augustine about Roman Law
Revista Opinião Filosófica, 2017 The following article aims to investigate the role played by Roman law in the decline of the Roman Empire, in the vision of Augustine of Hippo. At first, we will make brief remarks about the causes of the decay of the Roman world.
Philippe Oliveira de Almeida
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
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Nordicum-MediterraneumOne would think of Roman Law and Soviet Law to be strange bedfellows, given the socialist-communist governmental regimes of the Soviet Union and the republican regime of the early Roman Empire.
Jonathan Wood
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Difference and the Liberation of Sufficient Reason
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) holds that every event and entity can be explained by a sufficient reason or cause. Philosophers have long struggled with the question of the PSR's compatibility with freedom, for if what occurs or exists follows necessarily from its sufficient reason then it seems it could not have been otherwise ...
Louis Matheou
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Paideía e Imperio: Una reflexión sobre el valor de la cultura como fundamento del dominio imperial
Anuario de la Escuela de Historia Virtual, 2015 This paper is concerned with the relationship between Greek culture and Roman politics. My aim is twofold. First, I want to challenge the traditional point of view that held a Roman Ruling Power and a Hellenic Civilizing Power. In my opinion, Greek
Juan Manuel Cortés Copete
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Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlemagne. By discussing selected passages from the Heptateuch, Candidus seeks to demonstrate that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, thus the whole Christian ...
Lukas J. Dorfbauer
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Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Palermo became the new capital of Sicily after the Aghlabid conquest in 831. The transformation of the city into a capital took many forms, including the production and consumption of pottery. The perspective from ceramic evidence shows that Palermo underwent faster and deeper processes of Islamization than other urban and rural contexts across the ...
Viva Sacco
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