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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 507-531, June 2026.Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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Zephyrus, 2015 The aim of this paper is to study a Roman intaglio from a cave shrine discovered in Carmona (Sevilla). It is carved in carnelian and contains the image of a winged young man holding a torch with both hands that can be identified as Eros/Cupid.
María LIMÓN BELÉN +1 more
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 195-230, May 2026.In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS
History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-31, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedded in metaphysical truths, and enacted in service of the future. Part 1 assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the “preambular approach to history”
Antoon De Baets
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The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 556-591, November 2025.Abstract Language change arising from language contact is a complex phenomenon. Peter Matthews encouraged researchers to consider it as firmly grounded in the behaviour of individual speakers. We apply this perspective to investigate the integration of Norse‐derived terms into medieval English, testing for the effect of their phonetic similarity to ...
Sara M. Pons‐Sanz, Seán G. Roberts
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Bishop Torhthelm’s letter to Boniface
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 244-273, May 2025.In c.738, St Boniface distributed a circular letter to a broad audience of ecclesiastics in England. One response to that letter survives, written by Torhthelm, bishop of the Middle Angles (737–64). The letter is written in an allusive style and borrows heavily from its main source, Pope Vitalian’s letter to Oswiu, king of Northumbria.
Peter Darby
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THE FLAVIAN DYNASTY AND THE ROMAN LAND CADASTER
RUDN Journal of World History, 2014 The Flavian dynasty had systematically affected all the standards of the Augustus’. Guided by special “law of land pieces” - ius subsecivorum , which was developed by Augustus, Vespasian organized in Italy a large-scaled census of territories.
I A Gvozdeva
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Stone products of the Roman municipium of Neviodunum, Pannonia (modern Drnovo, Slovenia)
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 284-312, April 2025.Abstract The paper presents the lithologies used in the stone products of Neviodunum (modern Drnovo in Slovenia), a Roman municipium in south‐western Pannonia. For this purpose, 95 stone monuments were assessed. Petrographic and biostratigraphic analyses were carried out on 56 archaeological and 57 geological samples.
Katharina Zanier +3 more
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Vespasian and Mettius Pompusianus
Classica et Mediaevalia, 2022 Several ancient sources agree that the emperor Vespasian did not punish a certain Mettius Pompusianus when he learned that he had received an imperial horo- scope, but appointed him as consul. It is argued here that Vespasian intended his appointment of Pompusianus as consul as the fulfilment of this horoscope which was vaguer in its original ...
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 153-173, January 2025.ABSTRACT The ancient city of Elaiussa Sebaste, currently Ayaş, is located on the southeastern coast of Turkey. It was one of the main trading Mediterranean harbours from the Augustan period until the early Byzantine era. The Arab invasion in the 7th century ce marked its definitive abandonment.
Romana Melis +7 more
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