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Socio-economic sustainability in Vernacular Architecture
, 2014 Vernacular architecture represents a great resource that has considerable potential to define principles for sustainable design and contemporary architecture.
Alcindor, Mónica +6 more
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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Vernacular heritage solutions for sustainable architecture: the Phlegraean islands
, 2015 The Phlegraean Islands, located into the Gulf of Naples, are characterized by a vernacular architectural heritage which belongs to the Mediterranean building traditions.
GIOVAGNORIO, ILARIA +2 more
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
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Journal of Asian Architecture and Building EngineeringVernacular architecture is deeply rooted in specific regions and evolves under urbanization while maintaining a close connection to the natural environment.
Fan Peng +5 more
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BuildingsThis paper reviews the development of vernacular architecture design and practices worldwide and then focuses on Chinese rural development. It explores the evolution of vernacular architecture and related concepts from a longitudinal perspective, and ...
Nan Yang, Bing Chen, Junjie Xi
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
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Vernacular architecture in Campania Felix. Values and conservation
, 2014 The paper aims to deepen the study of vernacular architecture in Campania felix. Rural dwellings, agricultural and lookout towers, rural farmhouses built on archaeological remains are the main components of a full palimpsest strewn over the agricultural ...
PICONE, RENATA
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud +4 more
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