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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Central Italy"”.
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Monumental Building Complexes in Orientalizing and Archaic Central Italy
… within settlements and comprising large central courtyards and surrounding building wings, the complexes appear to have been constructed and used by the elite both as residences and as centers of civic authority. Examples of such monumental building complexes are known from Satricum, …
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Modelling Roman agricultural production in the Middle Tiber Valley, Central Italy
… north of Rome in the Middle Tiber Valley, Central Italy. Historical evidence from Roman authors is combined with archaeological evidence from field survey and geographical resource data, and modelled within a Geographical Information System. Farm size and location are investigated in order …
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Community, Place, and Cultural Battles: Associational Life in Central Italy, 1945-1968
… is an exploration of associational life in central Italy, an examination of organizations that were central to the everyday experience of tens of thousands of Italians at a time when social, economic and geographical transformations were upending their everyday lives, 1945-1968. This …
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Sound-mediated environmentalisms in contemporary Tuscany: towards eco-ethnomusicological frameworks in central Italy
… of music and sound-based events in Tuscany, Italy, where my personal and professional connections as a native and artist offer unique insights into the region's human–nature relationships. Through applied ethnomusicological research, combined with my own artistic practice, I investigated the …
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The Artistic Patronage of the Augustinian Friars in Central Italy (1256-c. 1370)
… for the artistic and urban renewal underway in Italy from the 1200s onwards. This dissertation provides the first comprehensive study of the ‘third’ mendicant order: the Hermits of St Augustine, long dismissed as pale imitators of the Franciscans and the Dominicans. My major re-evaluation of the …
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Lakes and Groundwater of the Rieti Basin, Central Italy: Hydrochemistry, Paleolimnology, and Seismologic Influences
A combination of water and sediment core samples were recovered and analyzed to study the hydrochemistry and paleolimnology of two lakes in the Rieti Basin and adjacent groundwater springs. Chemical and stable isotopic tracers were used to characterize water samples and to examine downcore changes …
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In Savonarola's Shadow: Art, Agency, and Reform in the Dominican Nunneries of Central Italy
This thesis explores a network of interconnected Italian Dominican nunneries closely linked to the convents of San Marco in Florence and San Domenico in Pisa, with particular attention to Corpus Christi and Santi Giacomo e Filippo in Genoa, Santa Caterina da Siena in Florence, San Vincenzo in …
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A Communications Revolution? The emergence of images and writing in Early Iron Age Greece and Central Italy
… art during the Early Iron Age in Greece and Central Italy. The two main questions I ask are: why do script(s) and figurative representations emerge in the same years over such a broad area? What can the different patterns in the use of writing and images at different sites reveal about the …
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Territorial Challenges and Sustainable Regional Development. A mixed-method approach
… and qualitative governance analysis in central Italy (Rome, Rieti and L’Aquila). Chapter 1 assesses municipal liveability with an SDG11-aligned composite index and Benefit-of-the-Doubt aggregation; meta-frontier benchmarking and a Spatial Durbin Model separate local efficiency from …
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Ducks and Deer, Profit and Pleasure: Hunters, Games and the Natural Landscapes of Medieval Italy
… in late medieval and Renaissance northern and central Italy. Hunting took place in a variety of landscapes and invested animal species. Both of these had been influenced by human activities for centuries. Hunting had deep cultural significance for a range of social groups, each of which had …
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Peter Damian and ‘the World’: Asceticism, Reform and Society in Eleventh-Century Italy
… broader picture of his activity in northern and central Italy. The thesis examines how Damian interacted with "the world" — what he saw as constituting the "saeculum", and how he set himself apart from it. As a hermit, prior, cardinal, papal legate and reformer, Damian straddled institutions, and …
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Investigations into the Notion of Sculptors’ Drawings as a Type in Renaissance Tuscany
… made by sixteenth-century sculptors working in central Italy. In order to understand this notion, the history of drawings for sculpture and the literature related to them should be examined. Individual artists from whom a number of drawings survive must be studied separately before being related …
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Daedala Tecta: Architectural Terracottas And Cultural Memory In Republican Italy
… and changing religious landscapes in Republican central Italy. New towns used temple decoration to make particular claims about their identity, longevity, and role within the region. This information rarely survives in textual sources of this period, but can be traced through detailed examination …
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Rebuilding the Edge: The Case of the Sulmona–Carpinone Railway and the Town of Pettorano sul Gizio
… the depopulation of small centers in Italy over the last century and its consequences for citizens, and the country at large. The thesis examines how to look at the depopulation of inner and southern areas of Italy, by exploring the interrelations between three distinct components of …
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Feeding the Etruscans - An Archaeobotanical study of Etruscan Agriculture
The 1st millennium BCE marks the era in which the central and western Mediterranean was increasingly integrated into the seaborne interaction sphere that was established in the east already during the Bronze Age. Commodities, technologies, people, and ideas moved throughout the region and enabled …
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An intersection of climate, history and landscape use: 3000 years of central Italian environmental change
… to assess drivers of environmental change in central Italy. The climate and fossil pollen records are derived from a sediment core taken from Lake Ventina and cover the last 3000 years. δ18O and δ13C measurements on bulk carbonate produce a record which produces a semi-quantitative local …
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BURIAL AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN ITALIAN IRON AGE NECROPOLES: TESTING A BIODISTANCE APPROACH
… and social organizational practices of two central Italian Iron Age (1000-27 BC) groups: Pentri Samnites from Alfedena Campo Consolino (600-400 BC, L’Aquila, Abruzzo) and Pretuzi from Campovalano (750-100 BC, Teramo, Abruzzo). Despite missing data and sample imbalances, these are two of the …
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Caratterizzazione e massimizzazione dell'efficienza di impianti di produzione di energia elettrica da fonti rinnovabili tramite l'utilizzo di elettronica di potenza distribuita ed integrazione di sistemi di storage
… 300 MW PV plant in Brazil and a 2 MW PV plant in Central Italy.
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Consequences of plant population size for pollinator visitation and plant reproductive success
… and of a rare perennial shrub endemic to north-central Italy, Ononis masquillierii. All the three species depended on insect pollinators for sexual reproduction. For each species, pollen limitation was present in all or nearly all populations, but the relationship between pollen limitation and …
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