1,721,026 research outputs found
C. Giuffrida Manmana, Alla corte dell’imperatore. Autorità civili, militari ed ecclesiastiche nella Tarda Antichità, Edizioni del Prisma, Catania 2008
No full textReview of the monograph by C. Giuffrida, who entrusts this study with a personal interpretation of some relevant aspects that characterised the late antique world. The volume is divided into four parts: the first on the creation of a new ruling class; the second on the strategy to strengthen imperial power; the third on Theodosius I and the difficult control of the West; the fourth on the new behavioural paradigms at the court of the Theodosians and in particular on the political role of the Augustae
Superiumentarius (Suet. Claud. 2,2). L’imperatore Claudio autore di epigrammi?
No full textAccording to Suet., Claud. 2, 2 in a "libellus" Claudius complained about his master who had been a "superiumentarius". This ironic hyperbole, which refers to the brutal use of whip, seems an allusion to Horace's "plagosus Orbilius", and so suggests the possibility that Claudius'words were part of an epigram. Starting from some recognizable jambic sequences, the author of this article attempts to reconstruct it
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
La tabula Lugdunensis e i fondamenti ideologici e giuridici dell’adlectio inter patricios di Claudio
No full textPrendendo le mosse dall’esegesi di un passaggio dell’orazione di Claudio contenuta nella Tavola di Lione, il contributo intende ricostruire i fondamenti ideologici e giuridici dell’adlectio inter patricios promossa da questo imperatore. Essa sarebbe stata inserita in un disegno di più ampio respiro di riorganizzazione dell’élite senatoria perseguito da Claudio ma in fin dei conti rimasto inattuato
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Apronianus iudex integer et severus: privilegi dell’amministrazione ammianea tra etica, storia e politica.
No full textCon uno sguardo attento e rivolto al panorama di studi sulla costituzione della burocrazia nella tarda antichità, concentrati sul ruolo che essa ha avuto come fattore propulsivo o di ritardo nello sviluppo civile del mondo tardoantico, in questo contributo ci si sofferma sul- la figura del prefetto Apronianus, evidenziando dal resoconto di Ammiano alcune parole chiave legate all’etica comportamentale e al contesto sia storico che politico. Si ritiene che questi particolari connotati del testo delle Res Gestae possano essere attribuiti ad un privi- legio di rappresentazione e di carriera fortemente voluto da Ammiano
- …
