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6. Lorenzo Calvelli, Cipro e la memoria dell’antico fra Medioevo e Rinascimento. Venise, 2009
No full textBonato Lucie. 6. Lorenzo Calvelli, Cipro e la memoria dell’antico fra Medioevo e Rinascimento. Venise, 2009. In: Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes. Volume 41, 2011. pp. 352-357
Autodidatti contro accademici. Il dibattito sulle origini romane di Venezia nella prima metà del Novecento
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Pratiche della scrittura e tradizioni religiose nella Venetia fra culture indigene e mondo romano
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Writing and Religious Traditions: A Multifaceted Relationship
Full text linkThis volume explores the interplay between epigraphy and religions across the ancient western Mediterranean, with particular emphasis on the role of inscriptions in sanctuaries. Originating from the convergence of two research projects, it brings together case studies from the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, offering new perspectives on how inscribed objects, ritual practices and sacred spaces intersected within indigenous societies and under Roman rule.
The contributions highlight the significance of epigraphic evidence not only as a medium of communication between humans and divine entities, but also as a crucial source for reconstructing the archaeology of ritual and gesture. Inscriptions are considered alongside archaeological, iconographic, numismatic and literary sources, allowing for an interdisciplinary reconstruction of the cultic scene. Issues addressed include the organisation of sacrifices and ritual sequences, the management of offerings and sacred furnishings, the persistence or transformation of sanctuaries and the incorporation of local deities into broader panthea.
A central concern of the volume is the negotiation of cultural and religious practices between Rome and indigenous communities. The collected studies reveal that Roman expansion was sustained not only by coercion, but also by accommodation and the voluntary adoption of external models by local actors, who functioned as autonomous agents of change.
By combining a long-term historical perspective with fine-grained regional analysis, the volume reflects on the flexibility of ancient polytheisms, which envisaged sacred spaces as arenas for individual and collective dialogue. The outcome is a multifaceted picture of religious traditions and their entanglements, offering new insights into the dynamics of cults and society in the ancient Mediterranean
Writing and Religious Traditions in the Ancient Western Mediterranean
Full text linkThis volume explores the interplay between epigraphy and religions across the ancient western Mediterranean, with particular emphasis on the role of inscriptions in sanctuaries. Originating from the convergence of two research projects, it brings together case studies from the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, offering new perspectives on how inscribed objects, ritual practices and sacred spaces intersected within indigenous societies and under Roman rule.
The contributions highlight the significance of epigraphic evidence not only as a medium of communication between humans and divine entities, but also as a crucial source for reconstructing the archaeology of ritual and gesture. Inscriptions are considered alongside archaeological, iconographic, numismatic and literary sources, allowing for an interdisciplinary reconstruction of the cultic scene. Issues addressed include the organisation of sacrifices and ritual sequences, the management of offerings and sacred furnishings, the persistence or transformation of sanctuaries and the incorporation of local deities into broader panthea.
A central concern of the volume is the negotiation of cultural and religious practices between Rome and indigenous communities. The collected studies reveal that Roman expansion was sustained not only by coercion, but also by accommodation and the voluntary adoption of external models by local actors, who functioned as autonomous agents of change.
By combining a long-term historical perspective with fine-grained regional analysis, the volume reflects on the flexibility of ancient polytheisms, which envisaged sacred spaces as arenas for individual and collective dialogue. The outcome is a multifaceted picture of religious traditions and their entanglements, offering new insights into the dynamics of cults and society in the ancient Mediterranean
A Land for Strangers. A History of Encounters
Full text linkThis essay reflects on the author’s long-standing connection with Cyprus, intertwining personal experience with historical inquiry. Through the figure of Cyriac of Ancona, it explores how foreigners negotiated belonging, mobility and intellectual pursuits on the island in the fifteenth century. The narrative highlights Cyprus as a crossroads where hospitality, antiquarian interests and cultural exchange shaped enduring forms of identit
A Land for Strangers. Non-Native Individuals and Communities in Cyprus
Full text linkWhat happens when ‘strangers’ become part of the very fabric of a place? In Cyprus, newcomers have never been a rarity. Owing to the island’s strategic position at the crossroads of the eastern Mediterranean, they have long played a central role in its history. Far from disrupting the cohesion of local society, their presence has often enriched Cypriot culture, fostering coexistence and diversity rather than friction and division.
This volume comprises seven essays that explore the diverse circumstances, narratives and contributions of non-native individuals to Cypriot society, economy, politics and culture – from prehistory to the present day. The authors, whose expertise spans archaeology, epigraphy, history and anthropology, apply distinct methodologies to a broad range of topics: the circulation of Aegean pottery; epigraphic practices in Hellenistic inscriptions; the presence of Greek Orthodox Venetians in mid-eighteenth-century Larnaca; the activities of French consuls in Cyprus during the mid-nineteenth century; the 1962 visit of Soviet professor Sergey Kisselyoff, marking the first contact between the USSR and Cyprus; the service of Václav Ježek as a priest in twentieth-century rural Cyprus; and a reflection on Cypriot antiquities collections through the work of contemporary artist Marianna Christofides. A thought-provoking preface and an introspective afterword provide the broader interpretive frame for the volume.
A Land for Strangers offers insight into Cyprus’s identity as a meeting ground for human encounters, while also proposing a model of fruitful coexistence of lasting relevance to contemporary societies
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
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