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Chapter Wax, cash and the mass. Making candles affordable in late medieval economies
(2024)
By the later middle ages wax had become an indispensable element in Christian religious observance, used throughout churches, liturgical services and lifecycle events. Wax was therefore both essential and ubiquitous. It ...
Chapter Adaptation of the coastal protection system at Marina di Pisa, to extreme sea conditions: experimental analysis of the submerged breakwater and gravel beach
(2024)
The coast of Marina di Pisa has been subjected to strong erosion for decades. The current protective system comprises a large rubble-mound seawall, 6 emerged rubble-mound breakwaters, and 4 cells made up of a submerged ...
Crescita economica e coesione sociale nelle democrazie avanzate
(2017)
After the Second World War, the economies of advanced Countries have long been characterized by inclusive economic growth. In recent decades, on the other hand, there has been a steady increase in inequalities and a worsening ...
Chapter Перенос-перевод-локализация европейских научных знаний в учебниках Копиевского
(2024)
The Transfer-Translation-Localization of European Scientific Knowledge in Kopievsky’s Textbooks. The article examines the methods of introducing European scientific knowledge into the Russian language used by Ilya Fedorovich ...
Enrico Paribeni e la ceramica attica di Populonia
(2024)
The notes presented are part of the Paribeni Fund, received as a bequest from the University of Florence after the death of the illustrious scholar. This is a group of documents containing notes and photographs dedicated ...
Chapter Monitoring beach erosion along the Central Adriatic coast: the case study of Molise Region
(2024)
Coastal areas characterized by sandy shorelines are among the most dynamic environments and subject to deep and rapid changes over time under the influence of natural and anthropic factors. Therefore, reconstructing the ...
Ethnic Domination in Deeply Divided Places
(2021)
This volume examines the concept of ethnic domination and its manifestations in Israel (within the Green Line) and Estonia. Ethnic domination is a method of managing ethnic differences in multiethnic contexts through ...
Chapter Lavoro e riposo sabbatico come imitatio Dei secondo la tradizione ebraica
(2024)
The Talmudic definition of work/labor (melakhah) is based on the activities for building the holy temple in Jerusalem. The list amounts to 39 works which are forbidden on the day of Shabbat. The rest of the seventh day is ...
Quanti generi di diversità?
(2023)
Part of a series that aims to raise awareness of Gender Equality issues among the entire academic community, the book analyses in particular the various forms of discrimination linked to sexual orientation and gender ...
The Heian Court Poetry as World Literature
(2014)
What could be the common points between the Literature produced at the imperial court of 9th-10th century in Japan with the one composed in Italy under the rule of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen? Why the Kokinwakashū in Japan ...
Chapter Food, cooking and health in a selected corpus of websites and connected YouTube channels in France. Collecting and archiving the audiovisual web
(2024)
Based on a collaborative effort between the research project BodyCapital and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF), we present a two-step archiving process and analysis of audiovisual web content related to food and ...
Chapter Lavoro, tecnica e società in Platone: uno sguardo d’insieme
(2024)
During the 5th century B.C., skills (technai), including manual ones, assume an exceptional role in Greek society and culture. Plato's attitude appears to be twofold: on the one hand he credits the possessors of these ...
La libertà viene prima. La libertà come posta in gioco nel conflitto sociale
(2021)
What is left of socialism ? This question, too, must be answered in a "project left." Certainly, socialism is no longer an accomplished or well-known model of society to tend tothrough daily political action. It can only ...
Chapter Noi «ragazzi del ’99»: Riccardo Del Punta e la storia del presente
(2024)
The essay proposes a rereading of the long contribution that Riccardo Del Punta dedicated to the reconstruction of the development of Labour law and Labour law science between 1993 and 2008, the year in which he wrote, ...
Chapter Die ikonographischen Kulturen in den ruthenischen Ländern des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts in Relation zur Republik der Gelehrten und Künstler
(2024)
This paper examines selected icons and images from the Ruthenian (early modern Ukrainian and Belorussian) lands to explore forms of cultural and religious exchange, framed within the concepts of interconfessionality, ...
Careggi Campus
(2023)
People everyday live and use open spaces, so these actually are indispensable. The scientific literature is full of evidence about the role open spaces play for human psycho-physical well-being and health. This book deals ...
Visioni critiche
(2016)
Like a two-faced Janus, Siro Ferrone carried out both research on theatre and theatre criticism, combining academic research and stage experience. His reviewer activity, carried out without interruptions, is now for the ...
Chapter Arti liberali e meccaniche secondo Ugo di san Vittore
(2024)
The contribution explores the valorisation of human labour in the Didascalicon by Hugh of Saint Victor. Following a brief outline of Hugh’s life and main works, one underlines the principal points of interest of his ...
Chapter Morus, Mirex, Medica arbor: de herbis in un inedito glossario bobbiese di IX secolo
(2024)
The contribution analyses some glosses de herbis, transmitted in an unedited Latin glossary from Bobbio, written in the IX4/4 century and preserved in Milan, Bibl. Ambrosiana, C 243 inf. Two of these glosses (Morus and ...
Chapter Ной и Иафет в ораторской прозе Феофана Прокоповича и Стефана Яворского
(2024)
Noah and Japheth in the oratorical prose of Feofan Prokopovich and Stefan Yavorsky. This article focuses on the functioning of the names Noah and Japheth in the oratorical prose of the main preachers of the Petrine era — ...