Published in Journal of Ancient History
This article is a tribute to the life of Professor Lawrence E. Stager, prominent biblical scholar and archaeologist from Harvard University who conducted important excavations and research at the tophet of Carthage. Following this tribute is an unpublished article by the late Professor Stager with a preface to the article by the author.
Published in Health (London, England : 1997)
To improve the safety of healthcare systems, it is necessary to understand harm-related events that occur in these systems. In mental health services, particular attention is paid to harm arising from the actions of patients against themselves or others. The primary intention of examining these adverse events is to inform changes to care provision ...
Published in Eastern European Holocaust Studies
Research on the Holocaust in Romania does, as an area of research, fare so much better than other case studies in terms of interest and researchers dedicating their time to study it. In this context, a brief overview of historiography on the Holocaust in Romania must take into account a few key factors: access to archives on Holocaust-related files...
The use of history textbooks in order to instill particular images of the nation and national identity has been widely recognized, with a proliferation of studies focused on the problematic content in textbooks. Yet, history textbooks rely on a range of other media like maps, graphs, illustrated timelines, and photographs, which also play an im- po...
El presente artículo analiza seis publicaciones recientes que abordan la historia del siglo XX en Europa central y del este. El objetivo del texto es comentar críticamente los principales temas de la investigación reciente sobre la región, conectando estos libros con otras publicaciones y debates que han marcado las líneas de fuga de la historiogra...
The story of the Fairlight CMI is a story of misuse. Designed primarily as a digital synthesizer for the imitation of acoustic instruments, it was used in the worlds of popular music to sample the sounds of everyday life and pre-existing recordings. Highlighting the contingency of instrument design and use, one of its designers, Peter Vogel told it...
Published in HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology
The “Dinosaur Renaissance” is known as a crucial event in the study of dinosaurs. From sluggish and lizard-like, they came to be conceived and represented as more dynamic animals. This paper argues that the “Dinosaur Renaissance” did not only constitute a significant scientific and artistic shift. Indeed, it can also be interpreted as a foundationa...
À partir d’analyses à différentes échelles, combinant méthodes traditionnelles et numériques, l’article propose d’explorer le positionnement d’Alain Guerreau – auteur de nombreux ouvrages sur l’Europe médiévale et la méthode historique – au sein des études médiévales et du paradigme « féodaliste » en particulier. Il cherche tout d’abord à mieux cer...
Published in Journal of Ancient History
Thucydides’ detailed description of the Athenian plague, which is estimated to have killed from a quarter to a third of Athens’ population has been approached from a variety of scholarly perspectives, yet its memorializing function is still under-explored. This article contends that Thucydides’ plague episode serves an inherent commemorative functi...
Published in Journal of Early Modern Christianity
Johannes Cochlaeus’s Commentaria or Historia de actis et scriptis Martini Lutheri has been described as a “polemical invective.” This essay discusses the double title and the double characterization of the work and argues that its aim is to deconstruct Luther’s memory. Its effectivity derives from the combination of a polemical commentary and an in...
