Outputs (380)

Out of the Land of Ice and Fire: Icelandic Immigrants in the Midlands During the Fifteenth Century (2023)
Journal Article
Lomax, S. C. (2023). Out of the Land of Ice and Fire: Icelandic Immigrants in the Midlands During the Fifteenth Century. Midland History, 48(2), 158-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2217231

English towns during the medieval period have, in recent years, become increasingly recognised as places of diversity, with some of their inhabitants born in several European regions. Studies of immigration have, however, focussed on port towns and l... Read More about Out of the Land of Ice and Fire: Icelandic Immigrants in the Midlands During the Fifteenth Century.

Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus (2023)
Journal Article
Thomas, O. (2023). Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus. Classical Quarterly, 73(1), 419-435. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838823000435

An eighth-century Latin version of a Greek edition of Aratus preserves valuable ancient scholarship on the Phaenomena, including material not preserved in Greek. Examination of over thirteen thousand Latin–Greek correspondences enables one to interpr... Read More about Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus.

Language shift, attitudes and management in the Roman West (2023)
Book Chapter
Mullen, A. (2023). Language shift, attitudes and management in the Roman West. In A. Pavlenko (Ed.), Multilingualism and History. Cambridge University Press

Transformations de la Gaule sous l’Empire romain : une culture de l’écrit au service de la production de masse (2023)
Book Chapter
Mullen, A. (2023). Transformations de la Gaule sous l’Empire romain : une culture de l’écrit au service de la production de masse. In M. Coltelloni-Trannoy, & N. Moncunill Marti (Eds.), La culture de l'écrit en Méditerranée occidentale à travers les pratiques épigraphiques (Gaule, Ibérie, Afrique du Nord). Peeters

The rise of Rome brought with it the creation and spread of a culture of writing across Gaul. Another major transformation of the Roman period was the advent of mass production. These two developments coincided in the large potteries to produce local... Read More about Transformations de la Gaule sous l’Empire romain : une culture de l’écrit au service de la production de masse.

Situla Art: An Iron Age Artisanal Tradition Found Between the Apennines and the Eastern Alps and Its Identity Valencies (2023)
Journal Article
Saccoccio, F. (2023). Situla Art: An Iron Age Artisanal Tradition Found Between the Apennines and the Eastern Alps and Its Identity Valencies. Journal of World Prehistory, 36(1), 49-108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-023-09174-6

Situla Art is an Iron Age artisanal tradition dated to c. 660/650–275 BC, corresponding to the Hallstatt C2 to the La Tène B2 phases. It is characterised by striking sheet-bronze objects with embossed and/or incised decoration in Orientalising taste... Read More about Situla Art: An Iron Age Artisanal Tradition Found Between the Apennines and the Eastern Alps and Its Identity Valencies.

Mammals as Palaeoenvironmental Indicators (2023)
Book Chapter
Louys, J., & O'Regan, H. (2023). Mammals as Palaeoenvironmental Indicators. In A. Mark Pollard, R. Ann Armitage, & C. A. Makarewicz (Eds.), Handbook of Archaeological Sciences (211-226). (Second Edition). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119592112.ch11

Mammals come in many shapes and sizes, from blue whales to pygmy shrews, and are able to live in a wide variety of habitats, from the polar regions to arid deserts and the open oceans. Archaeological and fossil mammal remains are usually found as eit... Read More about Mammals as Palaeoenvironmental Indicators.

Perceiving Mining Landscapes: Metallurgical Origins and the Perception of Resources in the Landscape (2023)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M., & Maggi, R. (2023). Perceiving Mining Landscapes: Metallurgical Origins and the Perception of Resources in the Landscape. In Settlement Structures and Metallurgy: The Relations between Italy and the Iberian Peninsula in the Early Chalcolithic. Papers of an International Conference Held in Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano – Palazzo Massimo, 6–7 October 2011 (77-86). Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut - Abteilung Rom. https://doi.org/10.34780/t263-e0t2

In Liguria, in north-west Italy, copper mining starts soon after a transformation in the Neolithic economy – the opening up of upland pastures for summer grazing – and seems to be contemporary with the exploitation of other mineral resources, such as... Read More about Perceiving Mining Landscapes: Metallurgical Origins and the Perception of Resources in the Landscape.

The Mocking Homer of the Exegetical Scholia to the Iliad (2022)
Journal Article
THOMAS, O. (2022). The Mocking Homer of the Exegetical Scholia to the Iliad. Seminari Romani di Cultura Greca, 2022(XI), 317-337. https://doi.org/10.48235/1026

Epilogue: A critical appraisal of ethnic studies in the Iron Age Mediterranean (2022)
Book Chapter
Saccoccio, F. (2022). Epilogue: A critical appraisal of ethnic studies in the Iron Age Mediterranean. In F. Saccoccio, & E. Vecchi (Eds.), Who do you think you are? : Ethnicity in the Iron Age Mediterranean. Accordia Research Institute

Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality (2022)
Book Chapter
Lovatt, H. (2022). Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality. In K. Carvounis, S. Papaioannou, & G. Scafoglio (Eds.), Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition (179-206). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791907-009

This chapter explores the methodological case for reading Greek Imperial epic alongside and in conjunction with Latin epic, by revisiting one of the best-known examples, the case of the story of Phaethon in Ovid and Nonnus. Since Knox’s article, the... Read More about Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality.