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The Future European Energy System
(2021)
This open access book analyzes the transition toward a low-carbon energy system in Europe under the aspects of flexibility and technological progress. By covering the main energy sectors – including the industry, residential, ...
Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
(2022)
Gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. This book analyzes the mapping of gods through a specific lens: their naming. By proposing this new perspective, ...
Ritual Boundaries
(2024)
In Ritual Boundaries, Joseph E. Sanzo transforms our understanding of how early Christians experienced religion in lived practice through the study of magical objects, such as amulets and grimoires. Against the prevailing ...
Le lettere di Dante
(2020)
Notwithstanding an impressive amount of secondary literature, an exhaustive study has been never devoted to the twelve letters written by Dante Alighieri after his banishment from Florence (1302–1315). This book answers ...
Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West
(2023)
Latinization is a strangely overlooked topic. Historians have noted it has been ‘taken for granted’ and viewed as an unremarkable by-product of ‘Romanization’, despite its central importance for understanding the Roman ...
Our Mythical Hope
(2021)
Classical Antiquity is a particularly important field in terms of “Hope studies” […]. For centuries, the ancient tradition, and classical mythology in particular, has been a common reference point for whole hosts of creators ...
Our Mythical Hope
(2021)
Classical Antiquity is a particularly important field in terms of “Hope studies” […]. For centuries, the ancient tradition, and classical mythology in particular, has been a common reference point for whole hosts of creators ...
Chapter Fragmenta poetarum Latinorum in papyris reperta: Occidente ed Oriente, testi e contesti
(2016)
The volume collates ten studies that confront the main issues of the research on Roman poetic fragments: textual criticism and interpretation, new additions to the corpus, authorship, prosody and colometry, literary genre, ...
Our Mythical Education
(2020)
Clearly, wherever myth forms part of an educational syllabus, value judgements have been made by those who chose the texts, with regard to content, approach, usage, emphases, purpose and many other elements. [...] the ...
Our Mythical Education
(2020)
Clearly, wherever myth forms part of an educational syllabus, value judgements have been made by those who chose the texts, with regard to content, approach, usage, emphases, purpose and many other elements. [...] the ...
Urban Food Sharing
(2019)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the history and current practice of food sharing. Illustrated by rich case studies from around the world, the book uses new empirical data to set an agenda ...
Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience
(2023)
In the drylands and mountains where pastoralists live, uncertainty is everywhere. In these settings, negotiating access to resources, navigating volatile markets, making use of varying social relations in times of stress, ...
Grave Reminders
(2020)
From ca. 1600 – 1000 BC, builders across southern Greece crafted thousands of rock-cut chamber tombs similar to earlier and contemporary ‘beehive’ tholos tombs. Both tomb styles were designed with multiple uses in mind, ...
Interdisciplinary Insights for Digital Touch Communication
(2020)
Communication is increasingly moving beyond ‘ways of seeing’ to ‘ways of feeling’. This Open Access book provides social design insights and implications for HCI research and design exploring digitally mediated touch ...
Chapter 12 Yoga and Meditation as a Health Intervention
(2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book ...
Chapter Medieval Endowment Cultures in Western India: Buddhist and Muslim Encounters – Some Preliminary Observations
(2019)
The volume analyses the encounter between Buddhist and Muslim communities in South and Central Asia during the medieval period. The articles by historians, epigraphists, philologists, art historians and archaeologists ...
Naturae cognoscere causas…
(2021)
The book prepared by students, working under tutorship of their teachers, from three Polish high schools, on the theme of Classical Antiquity and Nature, within the Our Mythical Childhood Project.
Texts: Teachers and ...
Active Rheology Control of Cementitious Materials
(2023)
This book reports on cutting-edge research within the new field of active rheology control of cementitious materials, presenting new ideas developed within the ERC Advanced Grant Project, SmartCast (hosted at Ghent ...
Homo Mimeticus II
(2024)
Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies
After the linguistic and the affective turns, the new materialist and the performative turns, the ...
Naturae cognoscere causas…
(2021)
The book prepared by students, working under tutorship of their teachers, from three Polish high schools, on the theme of Classical Antiquity and Nature, within the Our Mythical Childhood Project.
Texts: Teachers and ...