507 research outputs found
Gold Sponsor Talk: Author Kris Dinnison
No full textWe are very pleased to announce that Kris Dinnison will be appearing at PNC/MLA this year! Kris Dinnison is a local author whose works include the YA novel You and Me and Him. Find out more about Kris at www.krisdinnison.net
VIOE-Rapporten 02: Een abdij onder het gras. Geofysische prospectie bij de evaluatie van verdwenen monumenten
No full textThe abbey of Herkenrode, situated to the northwest of Hasselt (B., prov. Limburg), is thought to have been founded around 1182 AD. This foundation has been attributed to Gerard, count of Loon (1171-1194), and must have been undertaken during a period of major political problems. Later on, during the 13th century, the abbey became the largest and richest Cistercian complex for women in the Low Countries. Its importance is illustrated by the fact that the abbey remained the burial place for a number of members from the countal family of Loon. Many of the medieval structures of the abbey have been described in historical documents and are depicted on figurative maps.Prior to the planned rebuilding of the abbey, during the 18th century, part of the complex was destroyed to make way for new structures. However, this rebuilding has never been realised due to the political upheaval towards the end of that century. After the French Revolution, the abbey was sold and some of the remaining buildings were used for industrial and agricultural purposes. Ultimately, the central part of the medieval abbey – church, cloister, kitchen, refectory, priest’s and guest’s houses, mill, brewery – has been completely destroyed.In 2003, the Flemish Heritage Institute (‘Vlaams Instituut voor het Onroerend Erfgoed’, the successorof the former ‘Instituut voor het Archeologisch Patrimonium’) ordered a geophysical survey by the Archaeological Prospection Services of the University of Southampton. This survey was designed to see whether the subsurface remains of the medieval structures could be identified and evaluated. Two types of geophysical prospection techniques were applied: resistivity measurements and magnetometry. Subsequently, the contrasting results of both techniques were compared, evaluated and integrated.The exact location of the church, the cloister, and service buildings were recorded, together with some strong rooms and cellars. The results, showing a relatively good preservation of the subsurface structures will be used for excavation planning. The archaeological research will contribute to the touristic and economic revaluation of the abbey complex, as planned by the Stichting Vlaams Erfgoed (Flemish Heritage Foundation)
The Ave Valley, northern Portugal: an archaeological survey of Iron Age and Roman settlement
No full textThe article presents the results of the HRB-funded survey of a sample of the Ave valley undertaken between 1994 and 1998. Introductory sections describe the geographical background and summarise the approaches followed. The field-walking results are then presented with especial emphasis on the ceramics. The field-walking evidence is used to identify a series of newly discovered sites which are assessed. The results of geophysical surveys of several of these sites are also presented. Information about the settlement patterns is presented based on a GIS analysis of both previously known sites and the results of the field-walking. Patterns in the changing distribution of settlement are discussed in relation to local social dynamics and the Roman annexation and exploitation of the region.The article is supported by databases which present the results of the field-walking and ceramic analyses.The article is jointly authored by: Martin Millett, Francisco Queiroga (Universidade Fernando Pessao, Porto), Kris Strutt, Jeremy Taylor and Steven Willis. The nature of a field-walking survey which produces a sequence of related databases (for field and finds) attached to a sequence of maps is particularly appropriate for electronic publication. Attempting such a publication in electronic form seems a worthwhile project in itself aside from the importance of the results
Portus: An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome
No full textIn AD 42, the Emperor Claudius initiated work on the construction of a new artificial harbour a short distance to the north of the mouth of the Tiber. The harbour facilities were enlarged at the instigation of the Emperor Trajan at the beginning of the second century AD, and Portus remained the principal port for the City of Rome into the Byzantine period. The surviving archaeological remains and comments by ancient sources make it clear that Portus lay at the heart of Rome's maritime façade. As well as being a key Mediterranean centre for passengers and for the loading, unloading, transshipment and storage of products from across the Empire, it was also designed to make an ideological statement about the supremacy of Rome in the world. Portus is, thus, of key importance to understanding Rome and her relationship to the Empire. The project that forms the subject of this book was designed to use non-destructive techniques of topographic and geophysical survey in combination with systematic surface collection to provide a new understanding of the plan of Portus. The work was undertaken between 1997 and 2002 as a collaboration between the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Ostia, the British School at Rome, and the Universities of Southampton, Durham and Cambridge. This volume presents the full results of the survey and uses them as the basis for a re-evaluation of the whole port complex. The geophysical survey results are interpreted in the context of earlier work at the site in order to offer new perspectives on the character and development of the site
Use of a GIS for regional archaeological analysis: application of computer-based techniques to Iron Age and Roman settlement distribution in north-west Portugal
No full textStainless steel in Sweden : antidumping attacks, good international citizenship
No full textThis report analyzes the economics, legal, and business logic of the United States, Sweden, and the European Community regarding the stainless steel industry. Trade policies and legal cases are analyzed and presented to support the author's conclusion that good economics, international competitiveness, private ownership, and limited support from a government that demonstrates good international citizenship are not enough to defend an industry against the application of antidumping or other import-restricting policy.Water and Industry,Roads&Highways,Primary Metals,Banks&Banking Reform,Mining&Extractive Industry (Non-Energy)
Ajax for web application developers / Kris Hadlock.
No full textIncludes index."Reusable components and patterns for Ajax-driven applications"--Cover.Book fair 2012.271 pages
“I shudder that I exist”. Hadewijch’s Mystical Writings as a Wayward Precursor of Autotheoretical Life-Writing
No full textThe work of Hadewijch, a thirteenth-century Beguine, explores the reflective potential of intimate affective experiences by making deliberate use of literary and religious intertexts. The writings of women mystics like Hadewijch present an understudied current in the genealogy of life-writing, yet they resonate strongly with contemporary autotheoretical practices that combine theory and art with autobiography. At the same time, the fact that Hadewijch is not a contemporary author can offer a critical perspective on the genre of autotheory itsel
Fluid mobility: global maritime networks and the Dutch empire, 1918-1942
No full textThis dissertation explores how Dutch anxieties over the loss of imperial hegemony in Southeast Asia evolved into a transnational and transoceanic project of colonial control during a time of increasing political unrest and rapid cultural change within the Netherlands East Indies. The maritime world became a contested arena during the interwar years where the tensions of empire comingled with the liberating and transgressive possibilities of oceanic travel. Shipping companies enforced racial, class, gender, and religious hierarchies among a fluidly mobile population of increasingly
resistant and outspoken colonial subjects. Dutch shipping companies used segregated and highly policed onboard spaces as colonial classrooms to instill the proper behavior expected of both colonial subjects and European travelers once ashore. The colonial government depended on maritime businesses to control the flow of anti-Western and
anti-colonial ideas such as pan-Islamism and Communism across its colonial borders. Dutch Consulates in port cities such as Jeddah and Shanghai completed these transnational surveillance networks by collecting information on suspicious persons including Indonesian hajjis studying in Mecca and Cairo and seamen moving between Europe, China, and the Netherlands East Indies. This dissertation reveals the unique and vital role shipping companies played in expanding colonial politics, culture, and society
across transoceanic spaces, reconceptualizing our geographic understanding of empire as inhabiting the vast overlooked spaces between metropole and colony.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Kris Alexanderso
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