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Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger – the First One Not to Become a Blind Man? Political and Military History of the Bryennios Family in the 11th and Ea…

2020

Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger has a place in the history of Byzantium as the author of one of the works devoted to the Komnenos family coming to power. This outstanding observer and talented leader, who was fascinated by the person of his father-in-law Alexius I Komnenos, came from a family whose ambitions were no less than the those in the one into which Nikephoros himself married. His father and grandfather, also his namesake, were those who dreamed of an imperial crown for themselves and tried to reach for it armed. Apart from defeat, they both faced punishment which was blinding. One of those who captured and ordered the father of Nikephoros the Younger to be blinded was his future f…

The Roman circus and southwestern city quarter of Carthage: first results of a new international research project

2018

AbstractThe paper presents first results of a joint German–Tunisian research project in Carthage, Tunisia. Archaeological fieldwork has been undertaken (preceded by a geophysical survey) in the southwestern quarter of the ancient city to study the architecture, chronology and urban context of the circus. The area has, unlike the rest of Carthage, not been targeted by excavations of the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries and, also unlike the rest of Carthage, is mostly not overbuilt, although under pressure from neighbouring communities. The area is the last one allowing a large-scale diachronic urban study in which the circus and its impact on the quarter is in the centre. From our f…

The So-called “Mithraic Cave” of Angera

2018

Summary The existence of a mithraeum at Angera (VA, Italy) was assumed for the first time in the 19th century, after the discovery of two Mithraic inscriptions re-used as ornaments of a private garden in the middle of the small town. The location of the alleged mithraeum is still uncertain: the inscriptions have been found out of context, and the place of worship has never been localized. The “Antro mitraico” (Mithraic Cave), also known as “Tana del Lupo”, is a natural cave situated at the base of the East wall of the cliff on which the Rocca Borromeo (the Castle of Angera) stands. At the cave the most visible archaeological evidences are tens of breaches cut into the outside rocky wall, wh…

Salomó Saporta: un mercader judío ante la Inquisición valenciana

2017

La persecución inquisitorial contra los judíos no ha sido un tema abordado sistemáticamente por la historiografía, porque las investigaciones sobre la represión de los tribunales inquisitoriales en el tránsito entre los siglos XV y XVI se han centrado en el grupo judeoconverso. Y si bien es cierto que la Inquisición moderna utilizó algunos procesamientos a hebreos de manera ejemplarizante para resaltar el peligro que representaban para la comunidad cristiana, y que han sido recogidos posteriormente por los investigadores, el caso de Salomó Saporta ha sido estudiado y comentado como un caso aislado. Por esa razón quizás sea el momento de plantear la necesidad de estudiar los mecanismos coerc…

Marsilius of Padua and Isaac Abravanel on kingship : the medieval precedents of modern republicanism revisited

2020

Abstract This article offers a comparative investigation of Marsilius of Padua’s and Isaac Abravanel’s ideas on kingship. It looks at how these thinkers transform the “canonical” sources of their respective traditions of political theorizing, i.e., Aristotle’s Politics and the Bible, to articulate the notion that ultimate authority rests with the citizens/people. It also examines how these two writers’ positions on kingship relate to the political realities that prevailed in late medieval Italy. Finally, it illuminates the medieval precedents of modern republicanism in the Christian and Jewish political traditions.

"Euesperides (Benghazi): Preliminary report on the Spring 2004 Season".

2004

AbstractThis article reports on the sixth season of the ongoing project at Euesperides (Benghazi). Excavation in Area P established the date of construction of the penultimate phase (and therefore of the plain pebble mosaic with inscription published last year) as 300-282 BC, following the abandonment and demolition of the antepenultimate phase beneath it. An area used for the preparation and cutting of the materials employed in the final-phase mosaics has been identified. In Area Q the dismantling of the street sequence was completed, and the W building fronting the street found to date from the fifth century BC. In Area R the crushed deposits ofMurexshell were removed and working surfaces…

National days between commemoration and celebration: remembering 1947 and 1960 in Madagascar

2013

Today Madagascar officially celebrates two national holidays. 29 March is dedicated to the memory of anticolonial resistance in 1947, the commemoration of the dead and the decoration of surviving combatants. 26 June in contrast is celebrated as Madagascar's return to independence in 1960 with parades, cultural performances, singing and dancing. But consecutive governments have altered state politics of commemoration and non-state actors have influenced the way in which 1947 and 1960 are remembered.This study of national days in Madagascar offers an interpretation of the different ways the two key events of national history have been remembered within the fifty years since Independence. Look…

POLITICS CLOAKED IN WORSHIP STATE, CHURCH AND LOCAL POWER IN PIEDMONT 1570-1770

1992

Pillage and Restitution: What Became of Works of Art Removed from France to Germany during World War II?, Paris, 17 November 1996

1997

L'uomo e il suo ambiente nella Grecia antica: per una "ecopoiesi"

2017

The modern concept of “nature” was born in the XVIIIth Century: a nature as object, submitted to man’s reason. A long traditon sees the origin of the modern notion of nature in the Greek phúsis. To go from phúsis invites us on the contrary to be critical towards the modern paradigm of a nature opposed to culture. Actually the domination of nature and the exploitation by man of what are for us “natural resources” is at the core of the ideological, economical and financial model imposed on us by neoliberal capitalism. This model shapes and destroys the communities of men as well as their environments. To face anthropologically the Greek phúsis invites us to break off with a technological capi…