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Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries (2015)
Book Chapter
King, C. (2015). Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries. In Norwich: medieval and early modern art, architecture and archaeology. Maney Publishing

This chapter discusses the surviving examples of large merchants’ houses in the city of Norwich dating between the 14th and 16th centuries. These were the residences of families who dominated the economic and political life of the medieval and early... Read More about Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries.

Greek hymnic spaces (2015)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2015). Greek hymnic spaces. In E. Barker, S. Bouzarovski, C. Pelling, & L. Isaksen (Eds.), New Worlds from Old Texts: Revisiting Ancient Space and Place. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199664139.001.0001

This chapter surveys how space is presented in a range of ancient Greek hymns, both literary and cultic. It proposes as a framework for analysis a distinction between the space of the god addressed, that of the human performers and audience, and that... Read More about Greek hymnic spaces.

Acidalius on Tacitus (2015)
Book Chapter
Malloch, S. (2015). Acidalius on Tacitus. In R. Hunter, & S. Oakley (Eds.), Latin literature and its transmission. Cambridge University Press

Art History and Intellectual History (2015)
Book Chapter
Lorenz, K. (2015). Art History and Intellectual History. In R. Whatmore, & B. Young (Eds.), A companion to intellectual history (184-200). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118508091.ch14

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. This chapter provides an overview of the history of the study of art from the eighteenth century to the present, with particular emphasis on the perception of art history as an academic discipline... Read More about Art History and Intellectual History.

Wall Painting (2015)
Book Chapter
Lorenz, K. (2015). Wall Painting. In B. E. Borg (Ed.), A companion to Roman art (252-267). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118886205.ch13

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. This chapter concentrates on Roman painting in the early imperial period, and in particular as it can be traced on the walls of domestic dwellings in Pompeii. The chapter presents a sketch of the... Read More about Wall Painting.

Slavery and manumission (2015)
Book Chapter
Lewis, D. Slavery and manumission. In E. Harris, & M. Canevaro (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Law. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199599257.013.21

This chapter provides an overview of the legal contours of slavery in the ancient Greek world, looking at Homer and Hesiod, Gortyn, Sparta, Athens, and Ptolemaic Egypt. It concludes with an overview of manumission law.

Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the Trial of Milo (2015)
Book Chapter
Fotheringham, L. S. (2015). Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the Trial of Milo. In R. Ash, J. Mossman, & F. B. Titchener (Eds.), Fame and infamy: essays for Christopher Pelling on characterization in Greek and Roman biography and historiography (193-207). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199662326.003.0013

The accounts of the trial of Milo given by Plutarch and Dio provide a valuable insight into the working methods of the two writers. A close examination of the incident in relation to the structure of Plutarch’s Life of Cicero confirms that the Life i... Read More about Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the Trial of Milo.

Giovanni Patroni e l’opposizione a Luigi Pigorini (2015)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2015). Giovanni Patroni e l’opposizione a Luigi Pigorini. In A. Guidi (Ed.), 150 anni di preistoria e protostoria in Italia. Istituto italiano di preistoria e protostoria

Giovanni Patroni e l’opp osizione a Luigi Pigorini - Giovanni Patroni (1868-1951) is notorious for a virulently anti-communist passage describing the inhabitants of the Terramare, which appears in his La Preistoria d’Italia (2 vols, Milan, 1937). He... Read More about Giovanni Patroni e l’opposizione a Luigi Pigorini.

Creating Problemata with the Hippocratic corpus (2015)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2015). Creating Problemata with the Hippocratic corpus. In R. Mayhew (Ed.), The Aristotelian Problemata physica: philosophical and scientific investigations. Brill

Discusses the various ways in which the Aristotelian Problemata engage with the Hippocratic Corpus, in particular the ways in which they convert Hippocratic material into their question-and-answer format.