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Purple And Its Various Kinds In Documentary Papyri, Ines Bogensperger 2017 University of Vienna

Purple And Its Various Kinds In Documentary Papyri, Ines Bogensperger

Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD

The colour purple evokes an inestimable, priceless luxury in our understanding. It almost belongs in a legendary world along with other exquisite goods. Purple is seen as example par excellence for a symbol of social status, a token of prestige. A significant study on the importance of purple has brought to light the persistent desire for this colour throughout the Greek and Roman world.2 Literary sources from Roman times provide us quite comprehensive information on the colour and its sources. The most often quoted author is doubtlessly Caius Plinius Secundus, known as Pliny the Elder, who compiled specialist knowledge in …


A Question Of History: Public History In Illinois - Booklet, Historical Administration 2017 Eastern Illinois University

A Question Of History: Public History In Illinois - Booklet, Historical Administration

2016-2017 A Question of History: Public History in Illinois

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A Question Of History: Public History In Illinois - Design Brief, Historical Administration 2017 Eastern Illinois University

A Question Of History: Public History In Illinois - Design Brief, Historical Administration

2016-2017 A Question of History: Public History in Illinois

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Lost & Found: Order In The Court -- The Party Game, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber 2017 Rochester Institute of Technology

Lost & Found: Order In The Court -- The Party Game, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber

Presentations and other scholarship

Lost & Found is a strategy card-to-mobile game series that teaches medieval religious legal systems with attention to period accuracy and cultural and historical context.

The Lost & Found games project seeks to expand the discourse around religious legal systems, to enrich public conversations in a variety of communities, and to promote greater understanding of the religious traditions that build the fabric of the United States. Comparative religious literacy can build bridges between and within communities and prepare learners to be responsible citizens in our pluralist democracy.

The second game in the series, Lost & Found: Order in the Court …


Ua37/6 Faculty Personal Papers L.Y. Lancaster, WKU Archives 2017 Western Kentucky University

Ua37/6 Faculty Personal Papers L.Y. Lancaster, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records regarding the nomination of Lennie Lancaster for the Kentucky Medical Association and Kentucky Academy of Family Physicians awards. The series is arranged in chronological order. A short biographical sketch by Dr. Jerry W. Martin, who made the nominations, is included. Dr. Lancaster's diplomas are in the collection, as well as an oral history interview conducted in 1973 which tells, among other things, of his work to establish Western's first campus bookstore in the summer of 1921. The collection also includes the KMA and KAFP awards, as well as several other certificates and awards.


Walter De Maria: Meaningless Work, Amanda Dalla Villa Adams 2017 Virginia Commonwealth University

Walter De Maria: Meaningless Work, Amanda Dalla Villa Adams

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Book review of Walter De Maria: Meaningless Work, by Jane McFadden.


Monstrous Allure: Polyphemus In Pompeii, Glenda Swan 2017 Valdosta State University

Monstrous Allure: Polyphemus In Pompeii, Glenda Swan

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Front Matter, 2017 Virginia Commonwealth University

Front Matter

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Cross Country: The Power Of Place In American Art, 1915-1950, Naomi Slipp 2017 Auburn University at Montgomery

Cross Country: The Power Of Place In American Art, 1915-1950, Naomi Slipp

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The West Virginia New Deal: Blanche Lazzell’S Mural In Morgantown, Kendall J. Martin 2017 Cape Fear Community College

The West Virginia New Deal: Blanche Lazzell’S Mural In Morgantown, Kendall J. Martin

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Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction, Jordan Amirkhani 2017 University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction, Jordan Amirkhani

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Drawings For Paintings In The Age Of Rembrandt, Saskia Beranek 2017 Colby College

Drawings For Paintings In The Age Of Rembrandt, Saskia Beranek

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Insecurities: Tracing Displacement And Shelter, Elizabeth Berkowitz 2017 City University of New York (CUNY)

Insecurities: Tracing Displacement And Shelter, Elizabeth Berkowitz

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Arts: A Guide For Conservators, Curators, And The Curious, Kari Rayner 2017 National Gallery of Art

Arts: A Guide For Conservators, Curators, And The Curious, Kari Rayner

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Book review of Arts: A Guide for Conservators, Curators, and the Curious, by Roy S. Berns.


Artemisia Gentileschi E Il Suo Tempo (Artemisia Gentileschi And Her Times), Marjorie Och 2017 University of Mary Washington

Artemisia Gentileschi E Il Suo Tempo (Artemisia Gentileschi And Her Times), Marjorie Och

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Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, Susan Richmond 2017 Georgia State University

Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, Susan Richmond

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Dispatches, Sunny Spillane 2017 University of North Carolina Greensboro

Dispatches, Sunny Spillane

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Shattered Landscapes: Revolutionary Ruins In The Virginian Watercolors Of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Julia A. Sienkewicz 2017 Roanoke College

Shattered Landscapes: Revolutionary Ruins In The Virginian Watercolors Of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Julia A. Sienkewicz

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An Interview With Eloisa Guanlao, Karissa Bushman 2017 Virginia Commonwealth University

An Interview With Eloisa Guanlao, Karissa Bushman

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Architecture And Memory In Jacques-Louis David’S Sabine Women, Heidi E. Kraus 2017 Hope College

Architecture And Memory In Jacques-Louis David’S Sabine Women, Heidi E. Kraus

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