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"Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461 focusses on the enduring position of ancient Persia in Byzantine cultural memory, encompassing both in the ‘religious’ and the ‘secular’ significance. By analysing a wide range of historical sources – from church literature to belles- lettres – this book examines the intricate relationship between ancient Persia and Byzantine cultural memory, as well as the integration and function of Persian motifs in the Byzantine mentality."

Shukurov, R. (2023). Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461 (1st ed.). Routledge. doi.org/10.4324/9781003205197 @bookstodon (74)

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"We argue that during the Late Iron IIA, the Kingdom of Israel, probably under the Omrides, replaced a small Phoenician village with a fortified casemate enclosure in order to control and institutionalise the production of the dye and other industries. These peaked under Jeroboam II, and subsequently the fort was ravaged during the period of unrest in Israel after this monarch’s reign."

Golan Shalvi & Ayelet Gilboa (2023) Between Israel and Phoenicia: The Iron IIA–B Fortified Purple-dye Production Centre at Tel Shiqmona, Tel Aviv, 50:1, 75-110, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/03344355.2023. @archaeodons

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"While much has been written about the passive voice in scientific writing, similar interest involving humanities writing in general has been more modest. A paucity of diachronic studies also raises the need to understand more about how passive use has changed over time and what such changes imply for the norms in academic writing."

Leong, P. A. (2021) “The passive voice in scholarly writing: A diachronic look at science and history”, Finnish Journal of Linguistics, 34, pp. 77–102. Available at: journal.fi/finjol/article/view (Accessed: 8January2024). @linguistics @writing

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Subutai: Genghis Khan’s Demon Dog of War youtu.be/UGOT36kbdME

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"He explores the practical implementation of the texts in their ancient setting through analyses of codicological aspects, paratextual elements, and scribal features. Linjamaa's research supports the hypothesis that the Nag Hammadi texts had their origins in Pachomian monasticism. He shows how Pachomian monks used the texts for textual edification, spiritual development and pedagogical practices."

Linjamaa P. The Nag Hammadi Codices and Their Ancient Readers: Exploring Textual Materiality and Reading Practice. Cambridge University Press; 2024. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781009441483 @religion @bookstodon (73)

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A new map of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, from the latest authorities. By John Cary, engraver, 1801. London: Published by J. Cary, Engraver & Map-seller, No. 181, Strand, Augst. 1st., 1801. archive.org/details/dr_a-new-m via @internetarchive

credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.

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The World as known to the Ancients Drawn & Engraved for Dr. Playfair's Geography. N. Coltman delt Vauxhall. Published Novr. 4th 1808 by the Revd. Dr. Playfair, St. Andrews NB. B. Smith sculpt. Walworth. (1814) archive.org/details/dr_the-wor via @internetarchive @antiquidons

credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.

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"The essay shows that while the majority of research projects at SIRB concerned medical genetics in the years 1936−1960, racial science never disappeared. SIRB scientists engaged in theoretical debates on the concept of race and conducted racial surveys of the Swedish population, using anthropometry and later serology as research methods."

Martin Ericsson (2021) What happened to ‘race’ in race biology? The Swedish State Institute for Race Biology, 1936−1960, Scandinavian Journal of History, 46:1, 125-148, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2020. @science @biology

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"The aim of this paper is to reflect on the characteristics and role of Sardinian maritime “enterprises” in the long-distance metal trade in the Mediterranean and beyond, including continental Europe."

Serena Sabatini & Fulvia Lo Schiavo (2020) Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 35:13, 1501-1518, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/10426914.2020. @archaeodons

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For those interested has an excellent book on Newton's theological writings entitled 'Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton'.

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"The ultimate objective of this work is to demonstrate that it is possible to reconsider the emergence of modern science as a process of disintegration of the quadrivium, which was considered a stable scheme for the organization of knowledge."

Valleriani M. (2022) From the Quadrivium to Modern Science. HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, Vol.16 (Issue 1), pp. 121-132. doi.org/10.2478/host-2022-0007 @science @medievodons

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"This paper discusses the archive and library of the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society, as a starting point for research into the history of Dutch mathematics."

Danny J. Beckers, History of Mathematics in the Netherlands: where to find it. EMS Newsl. 107 (2018), pp. 23–27. DOI: doi.org/10.4171/news/107/5 @science

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"This book does not attempt to answer this seemingly unsolvable puzzle either but aims to shed light on a simple fact usually overlooked by linguists and laypeople alike: the conceptual pair is not a timeless given but has a history, and a much shorter one than one might assume."

Van Rooy, Raf, Language or Dialect? The History of a Conceptual Pair (Oxford, 2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 19 Nov. 2020), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845, accessed 24 Dec. 2023. @linguistics @medievodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (72)

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"Personal names provide fascinating testimony to Babylonia's multi-ethnic society. This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period, individuals moved freely as well as involuntarily across the ancient Middle East, leaving traces of their presence in the archives of institutions and private persons in southern Mesopotamia."

Waerzeggers, Caroline, and Melanie M. Groß, eds. Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE): An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781009291071 @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (71)

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"My aim is not to give a complete account of the activities of British biblical scholars during the war, but to explore some of the distinctive ways in which their writing on biblical subjects was informed by their experience of the war, and especially by the themes of Allied propaganda."

Mein, A. (2022) “Biblical Scholarship and Political Propaganda in First World War Britain”, Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok , 87, pp. 52–72. doi: doi.org/10.58546/se.v87i.11086

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"...we try to illustrate in a concise way the two main “wonders” of Faraday’s life: that the son of a poor blacksmith in the Victorian age was able to become the director the Royal Institution and member of the Royal Society, still keeping a honest and “virtuous” moral conduct, and that Faraday’s approach to many topics, but mainly to electrochemistry and electrodynamics, has paved the way to the modern (atomistic and field-based) view of physics, only relying on experiments and intuition."

Bagnoli, F. and Livi, R. (2018) “Michael Faraday: a virtuous life dedicated to science”, Substantia, 2(1), pp. 121–134. doi: doi.org/10.13128/Substantia-45 @science @chemistry @physics

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"In this article I trace the origins of this period in terms of the infrastructure required to produce this explosive growth: recognition of the importance of systematic data collection by the state; the rise of statistical theory and statistical thinking; enabling developments of technology; and inventions of novel methods to portray statistical data."

Michael Friendly. "The Golden Age of Statistical Graphics." Statist. Sci. 23 (4) 502 - 535, November 2008. doi.org/10.1214/08-STS268 @statistics

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"This article traces the intellectual genealogy of genomic history from World War II to the present, examines recent attempts to answer criticism from the humanities and social sciences, and suggests paths for responsible use of aDNA in historical and prehistorical scholarship."

Parmenter, C.S. (2023), THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN. History and Theory.. doi.org/10.1111/hith.12328 @archaeodons

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"The heated debates that Bernard Mandeville’s work inspired in Britain, France, and Germany are well-documented. No such account is available for the public reception of his ideas in his country of birth, the Dutch Republic. This paper seeks to fill that void."

Hengstmengel, Joost, and Rudi Verburg. “THE UNEVENTFUL RECEPTION OF MANDEVILLE’S IDEAS IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH REPUBLIC, OR THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING OUTRAGE.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 45, no. 3 (2023): 427–46. doi.org/10.1017/S1053837222000. @historyofeconomics

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The true-born Englishman. A satyr. 1701: Defoe, Daniel archive.org/details/bim_eighte ~via @internetarchive @bookstodon @poetry

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