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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Imperial period"”.
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The Roles of Patrician and Plebeian Women in Their Religion in the Republic of Rome.
… religion. It investigates the topic during the period of the Republic (509-30 BCE) and pulls the information together in a concise manner.</p><p>The primary sources used were narrative histories and literature from the late Republic, as well as from the Imperial period up through the second …
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ΚΟΡΙΝΘΙΑΚΑ ΚΙΟΝΟΚΡΑΝΑ ΤΗΣ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΨΙΜΗ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΤΗΤΑ
… PROVINCE OF MACEDONIA DURING THE MIDDLE AND LATE IMPERIAL PERIOD. IN THE BOOKARE CATALOGUED AND COMMENTED UPON, TYPOLOGICALLY, TECHNICALLY AS WELL AS STYLISTICALLY 129 CAPITALS AND 45 PILASTER CAPITALS FROM THE WHOLE PROVINCE WHICH TODAY BELONGS TO GREECE, YUGOSLAVIA AND BULGARIA.
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Anglicanism, the Mau Mau Conflict, and Decolonisation in Kenya, 1952 - 1963
… literature on Christianity during the late imperial period in East Africa. Using new Christian and government sources, I detail how Anglicans navigated the complex and violent Mau Mau insurgency. I argue that despite the Anglican Church’s close relationship with the colonial state, Mau Mau …
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Visualizing Vulci: Reimagining an Etruscan-Roman City
… Etruscan control and then again during the early Imperial period while under Roman control. Other features include a ‘basilica’-like/Augusteum structure, at least one additional temple, several administrative buildings, and multiple residential structures with atriums and impluviums. The urban …
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The Cult of Chinggis Khan in the Dayan Khanid Period
… empire were remembered in Mongolia in the post-imperial period — that is, from 1368, when the last Mongol emperor fled his capital in Daidu (present day Beijing), until the Mongol princedoms were rolled up into the incipient Qing Empire in the first half of 1600s. For the intervening centuries …
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On the Land, Territory, and Crisis Triad: Enclosure and Capitalist Appropriation of the Russian Land Commune
… context of economic and agrarian crises in late imperial Russia. Using original records of Russian land deals that I obtained in the federal and provincial archives, I explore how the coalitions of landed nobility, land surveyors, landless serfs, and peasant proprietors used land enclosure as a …
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The Lord Opened Her Heart: Women, Work, and Leadership in Acts of the Apostles
… in both the Greek East and Roman West of the Imperial Period. This is not done with the aim of arguing for a historical Tabitha or Lydia, but simply to explore the types of images and expectations that may have influenced an audience's perceptions of these women. Second, the dissertation will …
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Pão em árvores: um estudo do caso sobre a fruta-pão Artocarpus sp no Brejo Paraibano
… and Asian. Plant widely cultivated in the imperial period in Brazil, however today this crop is scarce, where this crop is now planted in backyards of homes and crops of small rural farmers. The field research was conducted in urban and rural town of Sand-Paraíba, located in Heath-Paraiba. …
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Análise da literatura periódica brasileira na área de história
Analysis of the periodical literature in Brazilian History produced between 1975-1976 and of the bibliographic material cited by especialists, aiming to detect behaviour patterns and compare them to other areas of knowledge. In the citing literature authors are characterized according to their …
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BEFORE ‘CHURCH’: POLITICAL, ETHNO-RELIGIOUS, AND THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE COLLECTIVE DESIGNATION OF PAULINE CHRIST-FOLLOWERS AS EKKLĒSIAI
… need not imply his promotion of counter-imperial civic ideology. Greek literary (e.g., Plutarch) and inscriptional evidence suggests that if an Imperial period non-civic group (e.g., voluntary association) self-designated as an <em>ekklēsia</em>, it could have been perceived as a …
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Commanding Texts: Knowledge-ordering, Identity Construction and Ethics in 'Military Manuals’ of the Roman Empire
… produced in the first few centuries of the Roman imperial period. It argues that these texts merit far more attention and appreciation than they have received in the scholarship so far. I will explore areas such as the way in which their authors order and rank Greek and Roman knowledge, engage …
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The Indian Ocean trade and the Roman State
Imperial Roman trading activity within the Indian Ocean has received increasing attention from scholars during the last few decades, much of it considering the role played by the Roman state. These studies have convincingly shown that state involvement was motivated, primarily, by the lucrative …
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While Rome Burned: Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination
… moments of political crisis in the early imperial period. In three chapters, I follow the intersection of urban fires and claims to power, as expressed both in urban space and in the literary city of Rome, during three critical periods from early imperial history: Augustan, Neronian, and …
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Finding the Local within the Global: A Comparative Study of Public Architecture and Urban Development in Roman-period Lycia
… to the crucial role played by local and imperial agency in processes of urban development and practices of civic benefaction. By analyzing these urban landscapes as lived environments and considering the ways that pedestrian experiences both shaped and were shaped by architecture and …
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Raymond Williams, cultural materialism and the break-up of Britain
… a sense of unified national culture during the imperial period, to re-think the work of the university is also to re-think the political make-up of the nation.<br/><br/>This theme is expanded in Chapter Four, where I argue that Williams related the break-up of the British empire to the break-up …
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Assessment of the implementation of business processe-rengineering in the public sector in Ethiopia: the cases of the ministry of trade and industry and the ministry of works and urban development
… in Ethiopia began at the time of the imperial period, in the early 1960s. But this sector and the tradition of administration itself, compared with other countries, is not yet strong enough to play its role as a catalyst in the development and growth of the country. This study explores …
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A Question of Luxury: Trading Animals and Animal Parts Across the Indian Ocean
… across the Indian Ocean from the early Roman imperial period. Multiple species are noted to have crossed as part of trade networks and there is evidence that volumes of goods such as ivory, tortoise shell, and red coral were both available and shipped in large volumes from a variety of ports. …
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Ukraine's civil society development past and present: a comparative analysis of 19th and 21st century voluntary association in Kiev
The late imperial period saw the development of a significant and substantial, although somewhat small, civil society in Kiev. After 100 years, the fall of communism gave way to increasing growth of the public sphere again. Now, however, critics are calling Ukraine’s recent civil society …
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Longstanding natives and dispersed minorities: Sino-Muslims, public culture, and identification in Late Imperial China, 1600-1912
… acculturated and dispersed Sino-Muslims in late imperial China came to develop a sense of collectivity through participating in a public culture they shared with other Chinese people from the 1600s to the 1900s. During the late imperial period, increasing mobility, deepening commercialization, …
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Creating local landscape: tidal bores and seawalls at haining (1720s-1830s)
… collected and organized in local histories and imperially commissioned works. This dissertation thus seeks both to elucidate the historical relations between the imperial center and the locale and to address issues of wider concern to scholars of empire formation in the early modern world. …
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