The Late Antique
Confined exiles: an aspect of the late antique prison system
... The cases of fortress banishment discussed above, in particular that of John Chrysostom’s friends, which, given their wide geographical spread may have been ordered directly by Arcadius, suggests that at times concerns ...
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The tale of the Theban Scholastikos, or journeys in a disconnected sea
... the Late Antique global hierarchy of value - a process of equalisa- tion which is visible around the shores of the western Indian Ocean ...the late fifth to early sixth ...
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A woman’s place: imperial women in late antique Rome
... the late antique ...that late antique imperial female presence in Rome was part of the city’s collective memory well into the early middle ...
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Continuity and Change in Late Antique Irān: An Economic View of the Sasanians
... In answering our original enquiry into the nature of Sasanian economy, particularly the extent to which political boundaries corresponded to the economic ones, we can conclude that the economic boundaries need to be ...
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Taxation in the later Roman Empire
... the late antique economy, but it is of course possible - and tempting - to challenge the paradigm Gibbon has ...the late antique economy in general: the ‘decline and fall’-debate will ...
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Water After Antiquity: The Afterlives of Roman Water Infrastructure in the Eastern Mediterranean (300-800 Ce)
... in late antique urbanism and the trajectory of the state's interest in water infrastructure, as they are presented in a conservative text of the sixth ...the late antique Eastern Mediterranean ...
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The Potential of Speleothems from Western Europe as Recorders of Regional Climate: a Critical Assessment of the SISAL Database
... Warm Period (RWP; [165]), the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA; [165]), or the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA; [164]), periods of significant temperature change in Europe. This failure[r] ...
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The aristocratic domus of late antique Rome : public and private
... of late antique texts, but I would like to re-consider it for a moment, in light of what we have discussed so ...the late antique period, aristocratic houses were not seen or used in ...
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Memory, tradition, and Christianization of the Peloponnese
... of change brought by Christianization, it is necessary briefly to outline what is known of the Peloponnese in the fourth century. The emphasis is based mainly on evidence pertaining to sanctuaries, while discussions of ...
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Introduction: Defining the field : The epigraphic cultures of Late Antiquity
... of Late Antiquity” seeks to explore the pos- sibilities opened up by this recent scientific progress, bringing together scholars of different origins and scholarly traditions, as a way of presenting a picture of ...
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Streams of living water : the strigil motif on late antique sarcophagi reused in medieval southern France
... the late antique period as they were in the medieval ...the late antique sarcophagi of this type came to be carved and few examples where an epitaph provides enough detail to identify a ...
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The Absolute Essentialness of Conversations A Discussion with Amitav Ghosh
... AG Both of those things, exactly. You know, it’s a strange thing about In an Antique Land, that so many people think it’s a novel. Homi Bhabha teaches it and he told me at great length just the other day why, ...
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In the footsteps of Classical Antiquity. Influences of the antique in Estonian manor murals
... of late neo-classical manor houses and museum rooms in southern Estonia from the second half of the 19 th century (Suure-Kõpu, rooms in the Tartu University Art Museum ...
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‘Late antique field archaeology’ : a legitimate aim?
... investigate late antique sites but that, given the complexity that they often embody, it is imperative to approach them in a systematic and consistent ...
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Anthropology as cultural translation : Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land
... This seems unlikely, since Ghosh acknowledges in his thesis that in Nashawy women “are not very closely segregated; they are never veiled, they sit with men, and talk with and meet with them quite freely, certainly ...
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Auctions, market efficiency, and the trade in second-hand and antique silver
... To examine the role that the scrap value plays in determining the price of silver items sold at auction, along with any possible opportunities for riskless arbitrage, we construct a unique database from the catalogues of ...
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Captions and Color Plates (v. 24, 2012)
... Plate IIIA. Tani: Top: Akha heirloom beads, Chiang Mai, North- ern Thailand. Lower beads: possibly late 19th or early 20th century; upper beads: probably much more recent (1990s?). Bottom: Blue wound beads in ...
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The Village Antique Mall: A Case Study
... an antique mall needs to advertise about existence in a way that will attract both customers and vendors as a dual source of revenue given vendors pay rent for space and the mall earns a percent of total sales ...
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An Imitation of the Antique in Architectural Mouldings
... When the material for the first extensive study of Greek mouldings was col- lected the one example of a cyma reversa with projecting fillet between the 5th century Athenian a[r] ...
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In an Antique Land : Recognition to Unrecognized
... The prologue of In an Antique Land introduces the myst r ous o j ct o G os ‟s r s rc out t nt ty of Bomma an Indian slave of Jewish merchant Abraham Ben Yiju. Ghosh read an article by E. strauss in which MS H.6 ...
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