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The Sicilian Tithe Business: State and Merchants in the Eleventh-Century Islamic Mediterranean. Medieval Worlds|Urban Agencies: Reframing Anatolian and Caucasian Cities (13th-14th Centuries) & Movement and Mobility in the Medieval Mediterranean: Changing Perspectives from Late Antiquity to the Long-Twelfth Century, II - Volume 14. 2021 medieval worlds Volume 14. 2021|
No full textIn the mid-eleventh century, Sicilian authorities levied the »Sicilian tithe«, a customs duty hitting foreign merchants. The imposition of this tax put in motion a long chain of events that would be lost to us were it not for the exceptional evidence of the Cairo Geniza. This article focuses on a handful of Geniza commercial letters and legal queries in Judeo-Arabic that chronicle the unfolding of the Sicilian tithe business, from the initial attempt by a group of Geniza merchants to evade it, through the harsh reaction of state authorities, to the eventual abolition of the tax through merchant lobbying at the Fatimid court in Egypt. The events surrounding the Sicilian tithe not only shed light on a chapter in the history of Islamic Sicily; they also offer fresh insights into the much broader question of the relationship between state and merchants in the Islamic Mediterranean of the Central Middle Ages. Addressing this theme, this article will advance three interrelated claims. First, it will argue that Sicilian state administrators adopted what we might call a protectionist fiscal policy with the aim of maximizing tax revenues while at the same time supporting a domestic merchant class. Second, it will show that to accomplish this goal state administrators categorized merchants on the basis of administrative procedures that were largely detached from the complex and shifting forms of identity that merchants themselves adopted. Third, it will argue that the state’s protectionist calculus clashed against the trans-territorial character of contemporary merchant consortiums, highlighting the fundamental misalignment between the tributary logic that animated state officials and the capitalist logic that animated merchants
Hierarchical model reduction driven by a proper orthogonal decomposition for parametrized advection-diffusion-reaction problems. ETNA - Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis
No full textThis work combines the Hierarchical Model (HiMod) reduction technique with a standard Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) to solve parametrized partial differential equations for the modeling of advection-diffusion-reaction phenomena in elongated domains (e.g., pipes). This combination leads to what we define as HiPOD model reduction, which merges the reliability of HiMod reduction with the computational efficiency of POD. Two HiPOD techniques are presented and assessed by an extensive numerical verification
Titelei. Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse|Migration und Staatsbürgerschaft Migration und ... 1|
No full textÜbersicht über den Handschriftenbestand. Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse|Die mittelalterlichen Handschriften in der Bibliothek des Augustiner Chorherrenstiftes Neustift Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 364. Band|
No full textThe Part-Time Revolution: Changes in the Parenthood Effect on Women’s Employment in Austria
No full textWe compare employment rates of mothers and childless women over the life course across the birth cohorts from 1940 to 1979 in Austria. By following synthetic cohorts of mothers and childless women up to retirement age, we are able to study both short-term and long-term consequences of having a child. We consider employment participation as well as working time and also perform analyses by educational level. Our study is based on the Austrian microcensus (labour force survey), conducted between 1986 and 2016. The results show that although employment rates of mothers have increased across cohorts, the spread of part-time work has led to a declining work volume of mothers with young children. Return to the workplace is increasingly concentrated when the child is 3 to 5 years old. Part-time employment is primarily adopted (at least with younger children) by highly educated mothers and often remains a long-term arrangement
Roca and its Aegean Contacts in the Recent Bronze Age. Orea|Punta di Zambrone I Oriental and European Archaeology Volume 17|
No full textThe archaeological exploration of the peninsula of Roca (Lecce), carried out by the University of Salento, has brought to light one of the most important prehistoric settlements in the central Mediterranean. During recent years, an important stratigraphic sequence was explored in the northwest sector of the settlement (Area IX), near the internal front of the protohistoric fortification walls, and this had seven distinct occupation phases from the beginning of Recent Bronze Age 2 to Final Bronze Age 2. A large quantity of Aegean-type ceramics, both imported and locally made, were found in the Recent Bonze Age levels; moreover, the presence of many faunal remains led us to hypothesise celebrations of sacrifices and ritual meals. Various archaeological data converge to suggest that in this period Roca became an important node in a large-scale Mediterranean trade network and acquired the character of a community colony, with a significant group of Aegean immigrants
Haas, Johann Honorius
No full text* vor 1692 Kirchdorf an der Krems/OÖ oder Kremsmünster/OÖ, † nach 1738 Leibnitz?/St. Komponist, Organist
Der historische Blick. Eine Analyse der Veränderungen in der dermatologischen Beschreibungslehre auf der Grundlage von Karl Zielers „Atlas der Haut- und Geschlechtskrankheiten“ (6. Aufl., 1942). VIRUS - Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin|VIRUS. Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin Band 19. Schwerpunkt: Objekte als Quellen der Medizingeschichte|
No full textThe Dermatological Moulage offers a unique potential for the processing of medical andscientific historical questions. Created more than 120 years ago as lifelike, three-dimensionalwax replicas, they provide us with an incomparably vivid view of historical disease findings.The exact observation and description of a skin change is then as now an important part of aclinical examination. The moulage ultimately illustrates a dermatological description. Thesymptoms were recorded with such accuracy that even today a diagnosis can often be madesimply by looking at them. This project is dedicated to the question which changes the dermatologicaldescription of findings has undergone since the beginning of the 20th century. Historicaldescriptions of wax moulages from the Würzburg moulage collection in Karl Zieler’s“Atlas der Haut- und Geschlechtskrankheiten” published in 1942 serve as a basis
Lebensausklang, Vermächtnis und Nachruhm. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Medizin|Ernst Fuchs und die Weltgeltung der Wiener Ophthalmologischen Schule um 1900 Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Medizin 69|
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