Volume ini terdiri dari lima belas makalah multidisiplin yang ditulis oleh arkeolog prasejarah, klasik, dan pascaklasik dari berbagai institusi di seluruh dunia. Mereka memberikan pandangan yang cukup terbuka tentang berbagai aspek penelitian arkeologi lanskap yang sedang berlangsung di banyak negara, dari Eropa hingga Asia dan Amerika. Makalah tersebut mencakup berbagai wilayah yang, dengan sa…
Karya ini mengkaji makna dan fungsi tulisan Arab—terutama gaya Kufi—yang dijahitkan pada jubah dan pakaian upacara raja raja Kristen Sisilia di bawah pemerintahan Wangsa Normandia pada abad ke 12–13, termasuk jubah mahkota Roger II dan pakaian resmi William II. Fenomena ini unik karena menggabungkan simbol keagamaan dan budaya Islam dengan identitas penguasa Kristen di wilayah yang sebelu…
As marketing specialists know all too well, our experience of products is prefigured by brands: trademarks that identify a product and differentiate it from its competitors. This process of branding has hitherto gained little academic discussion in the field of literary studies. Literary authors and the texts they produce, though, are constantly 'branded': from the early modern period onwards, …
Environmental pollution has been a challenging phenomenon in most developing countries, due to the weak enforcement of environmental regulations. As a result, humans and animals are exposed to different environmental pollutants, which threaten their very existence. Some of the emerging pollutants of great concern are polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) since they are categorized as proba…
Plant names are the key to communicating and managing information about plants. This paper considers how providers of high quality technical plant name information can better meet the requirements non-botanical audiences who also rely on plant names for elements of their work. The International Plant Name Index, World Checklist of Selected Plant Families and The Plant List are used as examples …
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern society
Dissecting the Criminal Corpse takes issue with the historical cliché of corpses dangling from the hangman’s rope in crime studies. Some convicted murderers did survive execution in early modern England
The creative pieces in this volume reveal the complex relationship that young South African writers have with Dante and his Commedia. Notable for their personal response to the poet, they engage in a process of rewriting Dante,
The volume, dedicated to the 44th International Conference of the Italian Union for Drawing, investigates the theme of ‘Transitions’, which particularly effectively represents our time and the current condition of the discipline of Drawing. The term, beyond its generic meaning of an intermediate stage in a process in which a condition changes from one state to another, has always been used …
Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern society. Dissecting the Criminal Corpse takes issue with the historical cliché of corpses dangling from the hangman’s rope in crim…