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Hannah Alpert-Abrams uploaded the file: Diversity Statement (2019) to
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoHannah Alpert-Abrams
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams uploaded the file: Cover Letter for a TT position in English and Digital Humanities (2016) to
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoHannah Alpert-Abrams
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams uploaded the file: Cover letter for a digital humanities librarian position (2017) to
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoHannah Alpert-Abrams
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams uploaded the file: Short essay responses for the CLIR postdoctoral fellowship (2016) to
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoHannah Alpert-Abrams
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams uploaded the file: Demonstration of Teaching Effectiveness for a Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016) to
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited “All that is in the Settlement” : Humans, Likeness, and Species in the Rabbinic Bestiary in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months ago***For a copy of the article please write to RNEIS@umich.edu***
While biologists argue about the limits and definition of a species, the urge to cluster and distinguish among the plenitude of lifeforms that populates the planet remains. Contemporary concerns about attempts to clone monkeys and to engineer human-porcine chimeras point to…[Read more]
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited Book Note | Pantheon in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoA review of Pantheon by Jörg Rüpke
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James Walters deposited Sleep of the Soul and Resurrection of the Body: Aphrahat’s Anthropology in Context in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe fourth-century Syriac corpus known as the Demonstrations, attributed to Aphrahat, the Persian Sage, provides a unique window into the early development of Christianity among Syriac-speaking communities. Occasionally these writings attest to beliefs and practices that were not common among other contemporaneous Christian communities, such as…[Read more]
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Ellen Muehlberger deposited Angel in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoA reflection on what notions of angels suggest about how late ancient people knew the world and its inhabitants.
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Ellen Muehlberger deposited The Will of Others in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoScholarly reflections on the concept of the will as it is articulated in late ancient texts have centered on the male individual and the difficulties he faces as he tries to train or direct his intentions. By contrast, in this article we seek to explore late ancient concepts and negotiations of the will by considering a cluster of ancient Jewish…[Read more]
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Rouco Collazo Jorge deposited Las funciones de una fortaleza bajomedieval: el caso de Pambre in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoLas fortalezas son uno de los más prominentes hitos del paisaje bajomedieval gallego. Pambre (Palas de Rei) es una de ellas, envuelta en la fama de ser una de las pocas capaz de resistir el ataque irmandiño. Sus constructores son los Ulloa, uno de los linajes nobles gallegos más distinguidos de los últimos siglos del medievo. La fortaleza de Pam…[Read more]
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Rouco Collazo Jorge deposited Análisis arqueológico de la torre-puerta de la alcazaba de Guadix (Granada) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoEste artículo tiene como objetivo realizar el análisis de la secuencia constructiva de la torre-puerta de la alcazaba medieval de Guadix (Granada). Para ello, se efectuó un levantamiento tridimensional de la estructura mediante fotogrametría, una lectura estratigráfica de paramentos en profundidad y una caracterización de técnicas constr…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Gruppen und Identitäten. Gedanken zur Bezeichnung „vandalisch“ in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoZwischen dem 5. und der Mitte des 6. Jahrhunderts bestand das Regnum der Vandalen und Alanen wie eine Reihe berberischer Territorien im römischen Nordafrika, welches sich in der althistorischen, mediävistischen und archäologischen Forschung zusehends als Testfall für ein besseres Verständnis der Umgestaltung der römischen Welt in Spätantike und Fr…[Read more]
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Rosa Vidal Doval deposited Modelos de asesinato ritual: la influencia de Fortalitium fidei en el caso del Santo Niño de La Guardia in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoUn estudio del impacto de la obra de Alonso de Espina en la acusación de crimen ritual presuntamente ocurrida en La Guardia tal y como se refleja en los documentos del proceso inquisitorial contra Yucé Franco. Este estudio intenta dilucidar cómo los procesos de comunicación escritos, en este caso las acusaciones de asesinato ritual, fomentan la…[Read more]
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Key MacFarlane deposited Hamburg’s Spaces of Danger: Race, Violence and Memory in a Contemporary Global City in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoGermany today is experiencing the strongest upsurge of right-wing populism since the second world war, most notably with the rise of Pegida and Alternative für Deutschland. Yet wealthy global cities like Hamburg continue to present themselves as the gatekeepers of liberal progress and cosmopolitan openness. This article argues that Hamburg’s ur…[Read more]
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Damir Gazetic deposited Школе и образовање месопотамских писара in the group
Writing Systems on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoМало тога је познато о месопотамском образовању до краја 3. миленијума пре Христа. Из доступних података може се извести закључак да је у време Треће династије Ура (21. век пре Христа) писање учено “на послу”, у једном шегртском односу према искуснијем писару, истим начином којим су се учили и остали занати. Много већим бројем података распо…[Read more]
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Damir Gazetic deposited Клинописни буквар. Клинасто писмо за почетнике in the group
Writing Systems on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoДело које се налази пред читаоцима представља својеврсну новину на овим просторима. Приручник ове врсте, колико је мени познато, није до сада постојао на српском језику. Ова чињеница је, пре свега, последица недовољне заинтересованости, самим тим и неупућености у проблеме једног тако значајног цивилизацијског феномена као што је клинасто писмо.…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Rex Vandalorum – The Debates on Wends and Vandals in Swedish Humanism as an Indicator for Early Modern Patterns of Ethnic Perception in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoFor more than four hundred years, up to the accession of the present king Carl XVI Gustaf in 1973, did the Swedish monarchs hold the title “King of the Wends“. The first evidence of this claim dates from the reign of Gustav I Vasa (1523-1560), who adopted the title Sveriges, Göthes och Wendes Konung in official sources around the year 1540. In L…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Migrations and Conquest: Easy Pictures for Complicated Backgrounds in Ancient and Medieval Structures in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoWe must, first of all, ask what a barbarian is or could have been in our sources. There were different kinds of barbarians, based upon the Roman and Greek ethnographic tradition and view of geography. Greek writers defined identities of human societies in the known world and bequeathed ethnonyms. Since the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E., these…[Read more]
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