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Gender and public image in imperial Rome

, 2007
Roman gender was often defined and regulated visually – that is, if and under what conditions a woman or man appeared in public, through personal appearance, or through representations in art or literature.
McCullough, Anna
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Architecture adapted to thermal springs. Some examples of Roman Engineering Solutions to Thermo-Mineral Water Abstraction in the Western Empire [PDF]

When considering the constructive characteristics of bath buildings with thermo-mineral waters in Roman times, one of the essential factors to consider was the need to adapt the bath building(s) to the site of the source of the thermal springs so as to
Marcato, Matteo, González Soutelo, Silvia   +1 more
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

City of God and the Duty of Just Memory

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire. [PDF]

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de Soto P, Pažout A, Brughmans T, Vahlstrup PB, Auir Á, Bongers T, Christoffersen JEB, Crépy M, Johansen MH, Lewis J, Manière L, Massa MR, Møller LMH, Redon B, Renda G, Şahin H, Sobotková A, Spatzek AL, Verhagen P, Weissova B.   +19 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
wiley   +1 more source

Correction: Whole genome sequences of nine Taylorella equigenitalis strains isolated in the Czech Republic between 1982-2021: Molecular dating suggests a common ancestor at the time of Roman Empire. [PDF]

PLoS One
Hrala M, Andrla P, Bosák J, Fedrová P, Mugutdinov A, Karpíšková R, Nedbalcová K, Raichová J, Faldyna M, Hořín P, Šmajs D.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Dendrochronological evidence for long-distance timber trading in the Roman Empire. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2019
Bernabei M, Bontadi J, Rea R, Büntgen U, Tegel W.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

Compte-rendu de l'ouvrage de J. Whaley : « Germany and the Holy Roman Empire »

, 2013
Compte-rendu de Robert von Friedeburg, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, pour HSozKult : Whaley, Joachim: Germany and the Holy Roman Empire.
saintempire
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