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Showing 1 to 20 of 128 for “"Sicily"”.
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Arabic-speakers in Norman Sicily
The linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. From the classical Roman and Byzantine periods until the Arab invasions of 827, the majority of the island's population spoke either dialects of Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival of the Normans around 1060, Arabic was …
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The tyrannies in the Greek cities of Sicily : 505-466 BC
… the tyrants' relationship with other Greeks in Sicily and Southern Italy, and then their brief encounter with the Carthaginians. Chapter three is concerned with the tyrants' recruitment of mercenaries, an important subject given the militaristic nature of the tyranny, as well as a dominant theme …
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Monitoring Drought at river basin and regional scale: application in Sicily
… to the Acate River watershed, in the south of Sicily. Such comparison has revealed that the three indices present different degrees of agreement in detecting drought conditions depending on the adopted aggregation time scale. Furthermore the analysis has revealed that the SPI at a proper …
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The (Im)possibility of Detective Fiction in Sicily: Sciascia, Camilleri and Piazzese
… detective novels set the south-western part of Sicily. The authors chosen for analysis use a traditional, formulaic and popular template of the detective story, or some variation thereof, and their novels all contain the figure of the detective as a protagonist and organizing narrative device. …
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The Villa and Agricultural Economy of Late Roman Sicily: An Archaeobotanical Perspective
… Roman world. Hidden in the sediment are clues to Sicily’s ancient past and evidence for its agricultural productivity that was an important part of the Roman world. Helping to uncover this evidence is part of the diverse field of environmental archaeology, the analysis of which unfortunately which …
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Commerce and coexistence: Muslims in the economy and society of Norman Sicily.
Sicily in the eleventh and twelfth centuries had a Muslim population under the control of Latin Christian conquerors. This dissertation aims to assess the economic role that these Muslims played in Norman Sicily, and how that economic role tied them into the society of Norman Sicily in general. …
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Geochronology of terraced coastal deposits in Calabria and eastern Sicily: tectonic implications
Calabrian Arc and Eastern Sicily (Southern Italy) are characterized by flights of coastal terraces occurring in various geological domains. These features are formed by interaction between the glacio-eustatic sea level changes and Late Quaternary uplift. Thus, by combining ages and elevations of …
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URBAN WASTEWATER REUSE IN AGRICULTURE: RECENT PERSPECTIVES FROM CASE STUDIES IN SICILY
… a small rural municipality located in Eastern Sicily (Italy), were reused by micro-irrigation techniques to irrigate vegetable crops. Monitoring programs, based on in situ and laboratory analyses were performed for assessing possible adverse effects on water-soil-plant systems caused by …
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The architecture of the church of SS. Pietro e Paolo d'Agro, Sicily
The church of SS. Pietro e Paolo d'Agro, Sicily, located some fifty kilometers south of Messina, constitutes one of the most sophisticated and coherent works of architecture to emerge from the Norman rule of the island. Constructed as part of a Basilian monastery, the church is modest in scale with …
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Geophysical models of Mount Etna, Sicily : its structural evolution and implications for slope stability
Mount Etna, Europe's largest active volcano, shows a long history of changing structure and environment, culminating in the modern volcanic edifice with its observed slope instability and region of past collapse (the Valle del Bove). The structure and evolution of the volcano and, more importantly, …
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Charity and confraternal piety in Malta and Sicily from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century
… a general review of confraternities in Malta and Sicily through the course of the Ancien Regime. It examines the institutional aspect of the lay brotherhood and focuses on other charitable initiatives undertaken at the time. Confraternities were initially launched by the pious for devotional …
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Diversity and flight activity of Staphylinidae in a citrus orchard of the Catania Plain (Sicily)
… in a citrus orchard of the Catania Plain (Sicily) using different sampling methods (car-net, window traps and pit-fall traps). The study looks at the complex of flying rove beetles with the aim of defining preliminarily the faunistic and zoogeographical structure of this family in the study …
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The Byzantine Chant Heritage in Sicily. Dynamics of oral transmission, musical heterogeneity, techniques of safeguarding
… chant tradition of the Arbëreshe communities in Sicily on the basis of oral and written sources. The musical repertoire has been cultivated by priests and faithful adhering to the Byzantine rite since the time of the Albanian diaspora in Italy in the aftermath of the Fall of Constantinople. The …
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Shaping Houses: integrating the physical and socio-cultural in the domestic architecture of Ancient Sicily
… form, layout, and construction of houses from Sicily dating from the Neolithic to the end of the Hellenistic period. This time range encompasses two primary domestic building traditions: single-spaced round houses that dominate from the Neolithic through to the end of the Late Bronze Age, and …
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The stones of Roger II. A reappraisal of sculpture programmes and their architectural contexts in Norman Sicily
… the past century, the visual culture of Norman Sicily has been widely scrutinized and a coherent interpretative framework established primarily through the study of architecture and mosaic. By comparison, scholarship on Sicilian sculpture has lagged behind and uncertainty persists about the …
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Italian Fellas in Olive Drab: Exploring the Experiences of Italian-American Servicemen in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1945
<p>Despite constituting the largest ethnic group in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, the experiences of Italian-Americans have received scant attention by historians. In particular, the stories of the U.S. citizens of Italian descent or Italian-born but naturalized Americans who served in …
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TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATIONS IN THE GEOCHEMISTRY AND MINERAOLOGY OF THE YOUNGER HISTORIC LAVAS OF MOUNT ETNA, SICILY
A succession of nine major hawaiite lava field s erupted on Mount Etna during the period 1910-1983 have been extensively sampled. Whole-rock chemical and petrographic data reveal a significant spatial variation within each of the lava fields studied and a uniform temporal variation in the …
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