Sacralised spaces of Mithras in Roman Dacia

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Csaba Szabó
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Overview ◽  
Religious Communication ◽  
New Space ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rich Material ◽  
First Time

AbstractThe Roman cult of Mithras is one of the most well documented cults in Roman Dacia, having almost 300 archaeological finds (epigraphic and figurative sources) produced in less than 170 years during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. Although the rich materiality of the cult attracted European attention already in the 18th century, sacralised spaces of Mithras in Dacia – the mithraea of the province – were rarely analysed. This paper presents a systematic overview of the archaeologically and epigraphically attested sanctuaries. Based on the rich material of the cult it will present a new catalogue of sanctuaries of Mithras in Roman Dacia for the first time contextualising them in a new space taxonomy of Roman religious communication.

Profaning the Sacred: The Unorthodox Financial Activities of Catholic Clerics During the Napoleonic Period, 1796–1814

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-542
Author(s):  
Christopher Korten
Keyword(s):  
Precious Metals ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Critical Periods ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Sacred And Profane ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Times ◽  
First Time ◽  
Insight Into

This article reveals for the first time how Catholic clerics survived financially during the Napoleonic period in Italy (1796–1814). Despite the very rich, 200-year historiography on one of the Church's most critical periods, there is almost nothing on how religious clerics coped at this time. Their institutions had been despoiled by the French, often in collaboration with locals, negating traditional forms of clerical income, such as alms or rental income from non-ecclesiastical properties. This caused clerics to search out unorthodox – at times, non-canonical – ways of eking out a living, either for themselves, their religious communities or both, as such distinctions were often blurred. Masses were monetized and traded; ecclesiastical paraphernalia composed of precious metals were smelted and commodified, and relics were sold for profit. The uncovering of these controversial acts by men who in normal times were upstanding reveals the desperation of the times and provides insight into the rich discussion on determining the degrees of separation (and overlap) between the sacred and profane.

scholarly journals TO PREVENTION OF POSTNATAL DISEASES

1892 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 1073-1084
Author(s):  
Jacob Rosenblatt
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rich Material

One of the burning issues of the day in modern obstetrics is the issue of the prevention of postpartum diseases, giving a clinical complex of symptoms, known as childbirth fever. This disease everywhere carries away a mass of victims to the grave, and, moreover, in the most flourishing period of life, especially here in Russia, where rational medical care does not exist everywhere. Therefore, I think it is not superfluous to touch on this topic and report the data that I was able to derive while observing the rich material of the Leopold clinic, where I am a Volontairarztom. Doctor Jacob Rosenblatt.

At Home in Renaissance Bruges

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie De Groot
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rich Material ◽  
At Home

How did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such as probate inventories? These questions seem straightforward, yet few endeavours are more challenging than reconstructing a sixteenth-century domestic reality from written sources. This book takes full advantage of the inventory and convincingly frames household objects in their original context of use. Meticulously connecting objects, people and domestic spaces, the book introduces the reader to the rich material world of Bruges citizens in the Renaissance, their sensory engagement, their religious practice, the role of women, and other social factors. By weaving insights from material culture studies with urban history, At Home in Renaissance Bruges offers an appealing and holistic mixture of in-depth socio-economic, cultural and material analysis. In its approach the book goes beyond heavy-handed theories and stereotypes about the exquisite taste of aristocratic elites, focusing instead on the domestic materiality of Bruges’ middling groups. Evocatively illustrated with contemporary paintings from Bruges and beyond, this monograph shows a nuanced picture of domestic materiality in a remarkable European city.

Leonhard Euler and the Theory of Ships

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (04) ◽  
pp. 274-290
Author(s):  
Horst Nowacki
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Leonhard Euler ◽  
The Rich ◽  
First Time

On April 15, 2007, the scientific world commemorated Leonhard Euler's 300th birthday. Euler's eminent work has become famous in many fields: mathematics, mechanics, optics, acoustics, astronomy, and geodesy, even in the theory of music. This article will recall his no less distinguished contributions to the founding of the modern theory of ships. These are not so widely known to the general professional public. In laying these foundations in ship theory, as in other fields, Euler was seeking "first principles, generality, order and above all clarity." This article will highlight those achievements for which we owe him our gratitude. There is no doubt that Leonhard Euler was one of the founders of the modern theory of ships. He raised many fundamental questions for the first time and through all phases of his professional lifetime devoted himself to subjects of ship theory. Thereby he gave a unique profile to this still nascent scientific discipline. Many of his approaches have been of lasting, incisive influence on the structure of this field. Some of his ideas have become so much a matter of routine today that we have forgotten their descent from Euler. This article will synoptically review Euler's contributions to the foundation of this discipline, will correlate them with the stages of Euler's own scientific development, embedded in the rich environment of scientific enlightenment in the 18th century, and will appreciate the value of his lasting aftereffects until today. The same example will serve to recognize the fertile field of tension always existing between Euler's fundamental orientation and his desire to make contributions to practical applications, which has remained characteristic of ship theory to the present day. Without claiming completeness in detail, this article aims at giving a coherent overview of Euler's approaches and objectives in this discipline. This synopsis will be presented primarily from the viewpoint of engineering science in its current stage of development.

Law, Empire, and Identity between West and East

2020 ◽  
pp. 417-435
Author(s):  
Benedikt Eckhardt
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Municipal Law ◽  
Multiple Uses ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
Rich Material

Compared to the rich material from Egypt, evidence for law and legal practice in the Danubian provinces is rather slim. Still, inscriptions offer some insights into how Roman law was received, applied, and transformed in the second and early third centuries CE. Moving from West to East, the article will discuss three case studies and their wider implications. The rescript of Septimius Severus regarding membership in a collegium centonariorum at Solva in Noricum not only shows the emperor directly involved in a legal dispute, but also testifies to the application of the rules on collegia vel corpora known from the Digest. The wax tablets from Alburnus Maior in Dacia show how private legal practice could be shaped by Roman models, but diverge from them as people saw fit, leading to legal forms that have been frowned upon as ‘invalid’ by scholars of Roman law, but must have been useful to people at that time and place. Finally, the new municipal law from Troesmis in Moesia Inferior can be understood as a symbolic assertion of Roman identity in a region bordering on the barbaricum. From a range of rather different epigraphical sources, the multiple uses of Roman law can be deduced, leading to an overall impression that is not entirely different from what is found in the East.

scholarly journals Beyond two-point statistics: using the minimum spanning tree as a tool for cosmology

2019 ◽  
Vol 491 (2) ◽  
pp. 1709-1726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishna Naidoo ◽  
Lorne Whiteway ◽  
Elena Massara ◽  
Davide Gualdi ◽  
Ofer Lahav ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spanning Tree ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Minimum Spanning Tree ◽  
Cosmological Parameters ◽  
Skeletal Structure ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Unique Graph ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

ABSTRACT Cosmological studies of large-scale structure have relied on two-point statistics, not fully exploiting the rich structure of the cosmic web. In this paper we show how to capture some of this cosmic web information by using the minimum spanning tree (MST), for the first time using it to estimate cosmological parameters in simulations. Discrete tracers of dark matter such as galaxies, N-body particles or haloes are used as nodes to construct a unique graph, the MST, that traces skeletal structure. We study the dependence of the MST on cosmological parameters using haloes from a suite of COmoving Lagrangian Acceleration (COLA) simulations with a box size of $250\ h^{-1}\, {\rm Mpc}$, varying the amplitude of scalar fluctuations (As), matter density (Ωm), and neutrino mass (∑mν). The power spectrum P and bispectrum B are measured for wavenumbers between 0.125 and 0.5 $h\, {\rm Mpc}^{-1}$, while a corresponding lower cut of ∼12.6 $h^{-1}\, {\rm Mpc}$ is applied to the MST. The constraints from the individual methods are fairly similar but when combined we see improved 1σ constraints of $\sim 17{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ ($\sim 12{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$) on Ωm and $\sim 12{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ ($\sim 10{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$) on As with respect to P (P + B) thus showing the MST is providing additional information. The MST can be applied to current and future spectroscopic surveys (BOSS, DESI, Euclid, PSF, WFIRST, and 4MOST) in 3D and photometric surveys (DES and LSST) in tomographic shells to constrain parameters and/or test systematics.

scholarly journals Identifying resonances of the Galactic bar in Gaia DR2: I. Clues from action space

2020 ◽  
Vol 500 (2) ◽  
pp. 2645-2665
Author(s):  
Wilma H Trick ◽  
Francesca Fragkoudi ◽  
Jason A S Hunt ◽  
J Ted Mackereth ◽  
Simon D M White
Keyword(s):  
Action Space ◽  
Galactic Disc ◽  
Resonant Orbits ◽  
Particle Simulations ◽  
Pattern Speed ◽  
The Rich ◽  
First Time ◽  
Gaia Dr2 ◽  
Vertical Action ◽  
Lindblad Resonance

ABSTRACT Action space synthesizes the orbital information of stars and is well suited to analyse the rich kinematic substructure of the disc in the second Gaia data release's radial velocity sample. We revisit the strong perturbation induced in the Milky Way disc by an m = 2 bar, using test particle simulations and the actions (JR, Lz, Jz) estimated in an axisymmetric potential. These make three useful diagnostics cleanly visible. (1) We use the well-known characteristic flip from outward to inward motion at the outer Lindblad resonance (OLR; l = +1, m = 2), which occurs along the axisymmetric resonance line (ARL) in (Lz, JR), to identify in the Gaia action data three candidates for the bar’s OLR and pattern speed Ωbar: 1.85Ω0, 1.20Ω0, and 1.63Ω0 (with ∼0.1Ω0 systematic uncertainty). The Gaia data is therefore consistent with both slow and fast bar models in the literature, but disagrees with recent measurements of ∼1.45Ω0. (2) For the first time, we demonstrate that bar resonances – especially the OLR – cause a gradient in vertical action 〈Jz〉 with Lz around the ARL via ‘Jz-sorting’ of stars. This could contribute to the observed coupling of 〈vR〉 and 〈|vz|〉 in the Galactic disc. (3) We confirm prior results that the behaviour of resonant orbits is well approximated by scattering and oscillation in (Lz, JR) along a slope ΔJR/ΔLz = l/m centred on the l:m ARL. Overall, we demonstrate that axisymmetrically estimated actions are a powerful diagnostic tool even in non-axisymmetric systems.

The mosaic of ancestral karyotype blocks in the Sinapis alba L. genome

Genome ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew N. Nelson ◽  
Isobel A.P. Parkin ◽  
Derek J. Lydiate
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Research ◽  
Brassica Species ◽  
Sinapis Alba ◽  
Ancestral Karyotype ◽  
Crop Species ◽  
B Genome ◽  
A Genome ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Conserved Gene ◽  
First Time

The organisation of the Sinapis alba genome, comprising 12 linkage groups (n = 12), was compared with the Brassicaceae ancestral karyotype (AK) genomic blocks previously described in other crucifer species. Most of the S. alba genome falls into conserved triplicated genomic blocks that closely match the AK-defined genomic blocks found in other crucifer species including the A, B, and C genomes of closely related Brassica species. In one instance, an S. alba linkage group (S05) was completely collinear with one AK chromosome (AK1), the first time this has been observed in a member of the Brassiceae tribe. However, as observed for other members of the Brassiceae tribe, ancestral genomic blocks were fragmented in the S. alba genome, supporting previously reported comparative chromosome painting describing rearrangements of the AK karyotype prior to the divergence of the Brassiceae from other crucifers. The presented data also refute previous phylogenetic reports that suggest S. alba was more closely related to Brassica nigra (B genome) than to B. rapa (A genome) and B. oleracea (C genome). A comparison of the S. alba and Arabidopsis thaliana genomes revealed many regions of conserved gene order, which will facilitate access to the rich genomic resources available in the model species A. thaliana for genetic research in the less well-resourced crop species S. alba.

PALEOECOLOGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF MALACOFAUNA, OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA

Palaios ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 319-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLAUDIA C. JOHNSON ◽  
JACKSON K. NJAU ◽  
DIRK VAN DAMME ◽  
KATHY SCHICK ◽  
NICHOLAS TOTH
Keyword(s):  
Olduvai Gorge ◽  
Snail Species ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Intermediate Hosts ◽  
Running Water ◽  
Northern Tanzania ◽  
Environmental Setting ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Channel Deposits ◽  
First Time

Abstract The rich record of vertebrate, hominin and archaeological remains recovered from Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania stands in stark contrast to the largely unexplored macroinvertebrate record from the region. Here we examine fossil malacofauna from Olduvai Gorge, inclusive of new discoveries and previous reports, and survey their potential as paleoecologic indicators. Recorded for the first time from Olduvai, an assemblage of fossil bivalve shells is attributed by character comparison to modern Chambardia wahlbergi, a freshwater unionid species widespread across Africa. The fossilized shells were localized in Bed III conglomerate channel deposits, with channel geometry exhibiting scour bases and superimposed fill structures with fining upward sequences. The ecology of recent C. wahlbergi combined with sedimentological data indicate the aquatic environment in this region during Olduvai Bed III times can be reconstructed as a periodically desiccated floodplain bordering a river channel or channels with permanent running water and marked seasonal fluctuations. This paleo-environmental setting presents drastic change compared with that of the lower Bed I and Bed II deposits, when an alkaline/saline lake extended over the site and fresh water was restricted to standing groundwater-fed pools with snail species known today to be intermediate hosts for the trematode genera Schistosoma (schistosomiasis) and Fasciola (fascioliasis). This research enhances details of landscape evolution at Olduvai basin and furthers paleoenvironmental interpretations during the time of Bed III deposition.

Facebook and your corporate reputation

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Corporate Reputation ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
First Time ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings The year 2016 will in part be remembered, like all years divisible by four since 1896, by the Olympic spectacle that emanated for the first time from Brazil’s most famous city, Rio de Janeiro. But will it be the success, or the scandal that lingers longest in the memory? As with all modern Olympics, it was a blend of astonishing achievements, colorful celebration and sudden scandals – banned athletes, drug cheats, badly behaved swimmers and dodgy decisions all formed part of the rich canvas that enthralls millions each time it is held. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

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