A work-in-progress, this is an extended bibliography on Messene covering the period from 1831 and up to today. It includes the excavation reports and archaeological/historical publications of ancient and byzantine Messene in Messenia, SW Peloponnese. Please send via mail or message any corrections, suggestions and additions.

This dataset captures all of the references to trees in Richard Power’s The Overstory. Data from the book include page number, section, and sentence the reference appears in. Additional data include, when possible, scientific name, order, family, subfamily, genus, species, and native range.

Like early modern marginalia, tweets are used to engage with text in a plethora of ways: to annotate, explain, comment, cross- reference, call attention, memorise, disparage, satirise, ridicule, praise, translate, summarise, &c.—and to make apparently entirely extraneous, sometimes unintelligible, comments. Twitter is used by scholars in Early M…[Read more]

The article focuses on one of the most famous accounts of the events of 1204: the De Signis by Niketas Choniates. It demonstrates how Choniates constructed a (semi)fictional account of the assaults against the Byzantine culture and identity through a constellation of symbols and passages drawn from the Greek Classics. The article comprises three…[Read more]

V stands for Vanadium * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

The coronavirus-induced lockdown hasn’t just eroded our physical liberty; it has also eroded our intellectual freedom. Our freedom to think has been put under lock and key. Clearly, we are on the threshold of a dangerous phase. Which way we go from here will depend on how soon and how well we gauge the danger and start exploring the ways to c…[Read more]

The last print issue of FORWARD Press was published in April, 2016. This editorial in the last issue of Forward Press has been written by Pramod Ranjan. Thereafter Forward Press continued to be published as a website and also ventured into the business of books. Pramod Ranjan parted ways with Forward Press in October 2019 in protest against the…[Read more]

Kherson eleison * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

नावेल कोरोना वायरस के अनुपातहीन भय के खिलाफ आवाज़ उठाने वालों में इतालवी दार्शनिक जार्जो आगम्बेन सबसे प्रतिष्ठित आवाज हैं। उनकी बातों का विश्व के प्रमुख अकादमिशयनों ने संज्ञान लिया है, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप कथित ऑनलाइन-डिजिटल शिक्षा के के विरोध की सुगबुगाहट वैश्विक स्तर पर आरंभ हुई है।

यहां प्रस्तुत है, उनकी एक टिप्पणी…

This article analyzes narratives of a single series of eleventh-century events, the trial of Syrian Miaphysite (Jacobite) patriarch John bar ʿAbdun.

Introducción: los hemangiomas son el tumor cutáneo más común en la infancia. Se clasifican dentro de las anomalías vasculares congénitas.Objetivo: identificar el comportamiento clínico-epidemiológico y resultados terapéuticos de los hemangiomas en pacientes atendidos en el Hospital Infantil “José Luis Miranda” de Santa Clara, Villa Clara en el p…[Read more]

“Digital Theme Analysis” depicts the role that thematic analysis plays in literary criticism, places traditional thematic analysis approaches alongside digital ones, and offers best practices for carrying out digital thematic analysis in the context of Voyant Tools. The chapter identifies thematic analysis as a meaningful pattern that can be tra…[Read more]

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of challenges to the globalized world. Globally, it has decimated over six million lives. Since 2019, it has shook the world in many respects, especially, it disrupted economies and societies and halted the majority of human endeavor. Commentaries and reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the…[Read more]

Lecture, given at the Fifth Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics (Università di Pavia, 2022-09-05/09)

Egyptologists have long struggled to translate D.t nHH, with expressions ranging from ‘linear and circular eternity’ to ‘everlasting completedness and ongoingness’. Similarly, ethnologists have found it impossible to translate the pan-Australian Aboriginal concept of tjukurrpa, resorting to neologisms such as ‘the Dreamtime’ or ‘the Dreaming’.…[Read more]

Prédio sito na Calçada de Sant’Ana tornejando para a Rua do Instituto Bacteriológico, LISBOA PORTUGAL Photographed by Ph.G. de MENDONCA (Wikidata Q90315009). 16 September 2020. This photograph was created by Philippe Gil de Mendonça to document the architecture of Portugal at the request of wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org. The cop…[Read more]