A supporting study was developed to identify the priority elements for conservation in the region called “Sierra de San Miguelito” (SSM), in the San Luis Potosi State (SLP), Mexico, with the purpose of establishing a federal protected natural area (PNA). The...

As the practice of cremation spread throughout Africa Proconsularis, several localities developed distinctive mortuary customs. Examining three commonly-recognized stages of ritual interaction at these graves (the cremation, the burial, and post-funerary visitations) an...

This report documents the availability of the Automatic Verification Tool (AVT) that is used in the translation research activities of Task 4.3 of the SSHOC project. The task team describes the role of the milestone and the means of verification.

For many years it was believed that Beatriz Galindo, called the Latina, had been Queen Isabel la Católica's teacher between 1486 and 1504, but some investigations have shown that during this period of time she was only a domestic servant of the Queen's House. There are ...

The copy of diplomatic documents was one of the methods that the first permanent embassies used to carry out their mission of gathering information from the diplomatic relations of other political formations. In this study we will observe how this practice was carried o...

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 ...

International audience; We analyse the money-financed fiscal stimulus implemented in Venice during the famine and plague of 1629–31, which was equivalent to a ‘net-worth helicopter money’ strategy – a monetary expansion generating losses to the issuer. We argue that the...

Abstract Owing to the prevailing definition of ‘dynasty’ as a line of succession, historians have long neglected the fundamental tensions that underlie succession, and have undervalued both the active attempts of princes to control these tensions as well as their abilit...

The bathing complex in Domavia (near modern Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina), drew our attention as one of the most interesting and yet still unexplored bathing complexes at the territory of the ancient Roman province of Dalmatia. It was discovered more than a hundre...