scholarly journals A pilot study on coarse ware ceramic fabrics from the Ayios Vasileios Survey Project (Greece)

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-139
Author(s):  
G.J.M. van Oortmerssen ◽  
C.W. Wiersma
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Mineral Inclusions ◽  
Fabric Analysis ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Stereo Microscope ◽  
The Common ◽  
Coarse Wares

In this article, we present the results of our pilot study on coarse ware ceramic fabrics from the Ayios Vasileios Survey Project (Laconia, Greece). The aim of this pilot was to explore the potential of optical fabric analysis on coarse wares on the basis of (mineral) inclusions detectable by eye or under modest magnification. We aimed to answer the following question: can we discern Bronze Age coarse wares from Byzantine/Early Modern coarse wares by means of this technique? We studied 177 ceramic fragments by eye and by means of a stereo microscope. This resulted in the description of 51 different provisional fabrics. Only a few of these fabrics could be assigned to a specific time period with certainty, based on a consistent dating of the sherds by the ceramic specialists, who looked at shape, decoration and fabric. Most of the fabrics seem to consist of sherds stemming from various time periods. A comparison between our provisional fabric groups and those published by other researchers in Laconia shows that possible connections or matches between fabrics made by us should be considered either as tentative or as unreliable beyond the level of argued assumptions. To arrive at more reliable ceramic fabric connections, or the identification of similar fabrics, it will be necessary to publish not only textual descriptions and images of thin sections—as seems to be the common approach—but also series of high-resolution pictures of sherds and their fresh sections, as has been done in this article, together with more detailed descriptions of these sherds.

unrechtliche peinliche schmehung oder dem gemeinen nutz nuetzlich?Eine Fallstudie zur Normenkonkurrenz im Schmähschriftprozess des 16. Jahrhunderts

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-149
Author(s):  
Jan Siegemund
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Levels

AbstractLibel played an important and extraordinary role in early modern conflict culture. The article discusses their functions and the way they were assessed in court. The case study illustrates argumentative spaces and different levels of normative references in libel trials in 16th century electoral Saxony. In 1569, Andreas Langener – in consequence of a long stagnating private conflict – posted several libels against the nobleman Tham Pflugk in different public places in the city of Dresden. Consequently, he was arrested and charged with ‘libelling’. Depending on the reference to conflicting social and legal norms, he had therefore been either threatened with corporal punishment including his execution, or rewarded with laudations. In this case, the act of libelling could be seen as slander, but also as a service to the community, which Langener had informed about potentially harmful transgression of norms. While the common good was the highest maxim, different and sometimes conflicting legally protected interests had to be discussed. The situational decision depended on whether the articulated charges where true and relevant for the public, on the invective language, and especially on the quality and size of the public sphere reached by the libel.

scholarly journals Speaking for the People in Early Modern England*

2019 ◽  
Vol 244 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Coast
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
English Civil War ◽  
Common People ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
The People ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Voice

Abstract The voice of the people is assumed to have carried little authority in early modern England. Elites often caricatured the common people as an ignorant multitude and demanded their obedience, deference and silence. Hostility to the popular voice was an important element of contemporary political thought. However, evidence for a very different set of views can be found in numerous polemical tracts written between the Reformation and the English Civil War. These tracts claimed to speak for the people, and sought to represent their alleged grievances to the monarch or parliament. They subverted the rules of petitioning by speaking for ‘the people’ as a whole and appealing to a wide audience, making demands for the redress of grievances that left little room for the royal prerogative. In doing so, they contradicted stereotypes about the multitude, arguing that the people were rational, patriotic and potentially better informed about the threats to the kingdom than the monarch themselves. ‘Public opinion’ was used to confer legitimacy on political and religious demands long before the mass subscription petitioning campaigns of the 1640s.

Bronze Age Cremation Cemeteries in the East Midlands

1987 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol S. M. Allen ◽  
Mary Harman ◽  
Hazel Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Small Cluster ◽  
Linear Arrangement ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Probable Function ◽  
East Midlands ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
First Time ◽  
Organic Remains

Two Bronze Age cremation cemeteries excavated between 1968 and 1975 are reported and discussed. At Coneygre Farm, Notts., fifty-one cremations were excavated, thirty-one in pots, six in cists, and fourteen uncontained. Cremations were deposited in a roughly linear arrangement and no barrow was found. At Pasture Lodge Farm, Lincs., twenty-seven pots were found, of which twenty-five had associated cremations, and fifteen further sherds could represent burials. Vessels in this cemetery form a small cluster. Pottery from these two cemeteries is broadly similar to Deverel-Rimbury ware and with vessels from other sites in the region is considered to form an East Midlands group of Bronze Age pottery. Vessels of this type from Frieston and Grantham, Lincs., are illustrated for the first time. Examination of thin sections of the pottery from the two cemeteries suggests that most, although not all, of the materials used could have been found locally. Organic remains found in thin sections provide environmental information. The effect of soils on durability of pots and their probable function is discussed. A direct relationship is noticed for the first time between the age of the cremated individual and the capacity of the pot in which the cremation was deposited.

scholarly journals Portuguese Vocabulary Profile: uma lista de vocabulário a aprendentes do PL2/PLE, baseada nos corpora de aprendentes e de livros de ensino

2017 ◽  
pp. 387-400
Author(s):  
Shintaro Torigoe
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Word List ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
Advanced Level ◽  
Learner Corpora ◽  
Word Classification ◽  
The Common ◽  
Pilot Version ◽  
Vocabulary List

This paper reports the second pilot study of the Portuguese Vocabulary Profile (PVP) project, a Portuguese vocabulary list for learners in Japan based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Inspired by the English Vocabulary Profile (Capel, 2010, 2012), the PVP takes a learner-centric approach. For this study, the author modified the first pilot version which was constructed solely from learner corpora (Torigoe, 2016a) by comparing it with a word list based on a corpus of Portuguese textbooks published in Japan. The result is a broadened vocabulary for both the elementary and intermediate levels. The major improvement is that some intuitively basic words, including numbers, months of the year, foods, and facilities, which had been previously categorized as intermediate or advanced level words or which were missing from the first version due to their low frequency were correctly categorized as the elementary level words. However, the norm of word classification remains somewhat arbitrary given that the small size of both the input (learner corpora) and the comparative data (textbook corpus) does not allow for the use of statistical methods with less frequent words.

scholarly journals SINCRONIZACIÓN DE LOS CICLOS ECONÓMICOS DE MÉXICO Y ESTADOS UNIDOS: UN ENFOQUE DE CORRELACIÓN DINÁMICA

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (319) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Dulce Albarrán Macías ◽  
Pablo Mejía Reyes ◽  
Francisco López Herrera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Business Cycles ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
The United States ◽  
Conditional Correlation ◽  
Dynamic Conditional Correlation ◽  
Dynamic Correlation ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Business Cycle

<p>El objetivo de este documento es analizar la sincronización de los ciclos económicos de México y Estados Unidos durante el periodo 1981-2017 mediante la estimación de un coeficiente de correlación condicional dinámica que permite tener una estimación para cada periodo de tiempo. Los resultados, obtenidos a partir de distintos indicadores de producción y métodos de eliminación de tendencia, muestran un aumento desde la apertura de la economía mexicana a mediados de la década de 1980, especialmente durante las recesiones de 2001-2002 y 2008-2009 y también una serie de descensos aislados, explicados por diferencias en los ritmos de crecimiento de ambas economías, y una declinación sostenida en la fase pos-Gran Recesión que se explica principalmente por reducciones en el comercio exterior.</p><p> </p><p align="center">SYNCHRONIZATION OF THE BUSINESS CYCLES OF MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES: A DYNAMIC CORRELATION APPROACH</p><p align="center"><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p><p>The objective of this paper is to analyze the business cycle synchronization of Mexico and the United States over the period 1981-2017 by estimating a dynamic conditional correlation coefficient that allows us to have an estimate for each time period. The results, obtained from different production indicators and different de-trending methods, show an increase in this synchronization after the opening of the Mexican economy in the mid-eighties, especially during the common recessions of 2001-2002 and 2008-2009, and some isolated drops explained by differences in the growth rates of both economies as well as a sustained decline in the post-Great Recession phase resulting from the decline of international trade.</p>

scholarly journals A Computer-Controlled System for Ice-Fabric Analysis on a Rigsby Stage

1988 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 92-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred A. Lange
Keyword(s):  
Tilt Angle ◽  
Ice Core ◽  
Data Bank ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Controlled System ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Fabric Analysis ◽  
Data Files ◽  
Computer Controlled ◽  
Electronic Sensors

An integrated system for ice-fabric analysis on a Rigsby stage is described. The system consists of a regular Rigsby stage fitted with two opto-electronic sensors for assessment of azimuth and the tilt angle of each individual grain. Signals from the sensors are transmitted to a computer terminal via an interface box, which facilitates transformation of Gray-coded data to ASCII data records. The terminal is hooked up to a main-frame computer (VAX 750), where the digitized angles of the c-axis orientations of individual thin sections are stored in separate data files. These files are compatible with other already existing files containing additional ice-core data and thus become part of an extensive data bank. Appropriate software has been developed to produce, among other things, plots of c-axis orientations in a Schmidt net.

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