How does technology influence young people’s drinking? A complex relationship in need of innovation

This is a study of a Renaissance artist and his patrons, but with an added complication, insofar as Leone de' Sommi, the gifted academician and playwright in the employ of the dukes of Mantua in the second half of the sixteenth century, was Jewish and a lifelong promoter and protector of his community. The article deals with the complex relationship between the court and the Jewish "università" concerning the drama and the way in which dramatic performances also became part of the political, judicial and social negotiations between the two parties, as well as a study of Leone's role as playwright and negotiator during a period that was arguably one of the best of times for the Jews of Mantua.

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Brahmi legends on Umayyad Fulus: Interrogating local minting practices and numismatic transculturation in Gandhara (ca. 750 CE)

Afghanistan ◽

10.3366/afg.2019.0029 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 153-165

Author(s):

Waleed Ziad

Keyword(s):

Base Metal ◽

Late Antiquity ◽

Eighth Century ◽

Political Authority ◽

Unusual Feature ◽

Complex Relationship ◽

Contact Zones ◽

Confessional Identity ◽

Derivatives Of

This paper concerns a historically significant find of copper derivatives of Umayyad post-reform fulus from Gandhara, probably minted in the mid-eighth century under Turk Shahi sovereignty (c. 667–875). The coins share an unusual feature: two Brahmi aksharas on an Umayyad AE prototype, inversely oriented to a partially-corrupted Arabic legend. These base metal coins represent perhaps the only known caliphal imitative varieties issued by moneyers beyond the eastern limits of Umayyad and Abbasid sovereignty. They have the potential to inform our understanding of the complex relationship between political authority, confessional identity, and coin typology in late antiquity – particularly within early “Hindu”– “Muslim” contact zones. Moreover, they provide invaluable clues into the circulatory regimes of Umayyad coinage.

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The Russian nationalist movement at low ebb

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474433853.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Alexander Verkhovsky

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

Complex Relationship ◽

State Repression ◽

Subsequent Increase ◽

Nationalist Movement

This chapter examines changes in the Russian nationalist movement from Russia’s annexation of Crimea until the State Duma elections in September 2016. Since 2014, the nationalist movement has been split over which side to support in the war in Ukraine. Then, with the subsequent increase in state repression of ultra-rightists, the movement lapsed into total decline. The chapter traces activities in various sectors of Russian nationalism, discussing the separate trajectories of the pro-Kremlin and oppositional nationalists, as well as the latter group’s further subdivision into groups that support or oppose the ‘Novorossiia programme’. Attention is paid to the complex relationship and interaction between the various groups of nationalists, as well as to their interaction with the powers-that-be and with the liberal opposition.

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Depression, Anxiety and Stress [DASS21] Symptoms in Menopausal Arab Women: Shedding More Light on a Complex Relationship

10.26226/morressier.5885d713d462b8028d89106b ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Abdulbari Bener

Keyword(s):

Arab Women ◽

Complex Relationship

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Oxidative Stress and Amyloid Beta Toxicity in Alzheimer’s Disease: Intervention in a Complex Relationship by Antioxidants

Current Medicinal Chemistry ◽

10.2174/09298673113209990152 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 20 (37) ◽

pp. 4648-4664 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

S. Chakrabarti ◽

M. Sinha ◽

I. Thakurta ◽

P. Banerjee ◽

M. Chattopadhyay

Keyword(s):

Oxidative Stress ◽

Alzheimer’S Disease ◽

Alzheimer's Disease ◽

Amyloid Beta ◽

Complex Relationship

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Becoming Zarathustra

10.1093/oso/9780190911966.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jean Kellens

Keyword(s):

Complex Relationship ◽

History Of ◽

Way Of Thinking

This chapter examines the role of ritual and sacrifice in the most sacred Zoroastrian literature, the Gâthâs in order to explore the complex relationship between the figure of Zarathustra and the human ritual officiant. The chapter presents a very Lincoln-ian sort of history of the field of Zoroastrian studies itself, interrogating the contexts and biases of particular scholars in their various readings and misreadings of the tradition. At the same time, it offers a new way of thinking about the figure of Zarathustra himself, who is best understood not as the semi-historical “founder” of Zoroastrianism but rather as the mythical personality into which the human officiant is himself transfigured through the ritual operations.

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Many Waters Cannot Quench Love

10.1093/oso/9780198753155.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Timothy Larsen

Keyword(s):

Religious Language ◽

Complex Relationship ◽

Way Of Life ◽

Time Period ◽

Auguste Comte ◽

John Taylor ◽

The Way

At this point, Mill meets the great, passionate partner of his life, Harriet Taylor. This chapter endeavours to explain the complex relationship and way of life that they created for themselves during the lifetime of her first husband, John Taylor. The choice of celibacy is investigated. Even for freethinkers, chaste affairs were often pursued in this time period and milieu, including by people close to Mill such as W. J. Fox (with Eliza Flower) and Auguste Comte (with Clotilde de Vaux). This chapter also reveals the way that Harriet became a kind of substitute deity and religion for Mill. He frequently applied religious language to her, including deeming her judgement to be ‘perfect’ and ‘infallible’. With Harriet, Mill’s devotional sense finally found an outlet.

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The Art itself is Nature

10.1093/oso/9780198816669.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jonathan Morton

Keyword(s):

Human Activity ◽

Twelfth Century ◽

The Self ◽

Complex Relationship ◽

Literary Production ◽

Broad Category

The chapter outlines different models of nature in medieval Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy in order to show how the Rose plays them against each other to articulate its own model of the complex relationship between art and nature. For the Rose there is no getting at nature except by means of art, as suggested by the self-conscious artificiality of the figure of Nature, taken from the allegories of twelfth-century Neoplatonism. Art, a broad category that encompasses all human activity, is insufficient in describing nature’s truths and is potentially sophistic in its lies. However, questions of nature are always questions of art on whose help humans depend to understand and to represent to themselves a nature that can never be fully known. Finally, the model of reproductive nature is used to legitimate the reproduction of texts and the continuation of arts that is literary production.

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