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Chapter 5. Perfects in Baltic and Slavic
2020
Glories and agonies of the Ethiopian past
2007
A history of modern Ethiopia, 1855–1974. By Bahru Zewde The invention of Ethiopia. The making of a dependent colonial state of Northeast Africa. By Bonny K. Holcomb and Sisai Ibssa
The Jewish Press and the Holocaust, 1939-1945: Palestine, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, Yosef Gorny (Cambridge: Cambridge Univers…
2013
Northeastern Neo-Aramaic and Language Contact
2020
The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects form one of the surviving branches of the Aramaic language family. Extremely diverse, they are or were spoken by Christian and Jewish minorities originating in Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran. They have been in intense contact with other languages of the region, most notably Kurdish, but also Arabic, Turkic languages and Persian. As a result, they show a great deal of contact influence, not only in lexicon and phonology but also in morphology and syntax. The precise forms of the borrowings, as well as their behavior, usually reflect the local dialects of the donor language, showing how important fine-grained dialectal data is in a study of language contac…
Fake Fragments, Flexible Provenances: Eight Aramaic “Dead Sea Scrolls” from the 21st Century
2019
Hermann Beck / Larry Eugene Jones (Eds.), From Weimar to Hitler. Studies in the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic and the Establishment of the Third…
2020
Contributions from History of Art to cultural tourism: The Holy Chalice (Santo Cáliz) of Valencia as the axis of the tourist story that sustains the …
2021
Dr Monk's medical digest.
2003
The Liber passionalis is an early and hitherto mostly unexplored example of a composite medical work on diagnosis and therapy, similar to the better-known compilations circulating under the titles Petroncellus and Gariopontus (Passionarius Galieni). It shows the efforts made to provide comprehensive coverage of morbid conditions drawn from a choice of the best sources available to the compiler, sources which in some instances complement or enhance our knowledge of ancient medicine in a way overlooked by specialists in the field for a long time and which provide the best clue when trying to assess medical expertise at the turn of the first millennium. The paper explores the transmission, str…
Oddawanie czci władcy w Rzymie w okresie cesarstwa na przykładzie manus velatae i silentiarii
2019
During the Roman Empire period, the ruler was venerated in many ways. Prostration, proskynesis, referring to the emperor as dominus; adora-tio purpurae; manus velatae; observing the ritual silence; and other rituals were supposed to strengthen the emperor’s authority. During the period of Dominate, the Roman freedom was replaced by etiquette at the imperial court. This article discusses only two examples of veneration of the ruler in the Roman Empire period, namely manus velatae and silentiarii. The manus velatae ritual consisted of giving hands covered with a cloth to the ruler and receiving objects from him in such hands. The gesture had already been encountered in many ancient cultures, …
Roma criminality in Slovakia. An introduction to the problem
2016
ROMA CRIMINALITY IN SLOVAKIA. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEMThe article concerns the problem of crime related to the Roma minority in Slovakia. The text presents the most important socio-cultural issues that affect the occurrence of crime perpetrated against Roma. It also discusses crime committed by Slovak Gypsies. The paper also comprises photographic documentation.