The Ceremonial Book of Constantine Porphyrogennetos

Revisiting the Donation of Constantine

Techniques developed for synchronic text classification problems are applied to a significantly diachronic dataset. The scale of the temporal categories appears to matter. The problem addressed is that of using automated text classification methods to temporally locate The Donation of Constantine. The results reported do not contradict the analysis of Lorenzo Valla from 1440, claiming the docum...

The arthritis of Constantine IX.

Early clinical descriptions of rheumatoid arthritis are rare, and it has been suggested (Boyle and Buchanan, 1971) that for this reason the paucity of evidence of the disease in early skeletons (Copeman, 1969; Grossman, 1966; Ruffer, 1918; Smith and Jones, 1910), the lack of reference to the disease in the Bible or in the works of Shakespeare (Ehrlich, 1967), and the failure to depict the defor...

Navajo Ceremonial System

Constantine Tsinakis Han Zhang

The starting point of the present study is the interpretation of intuitionistic linear logic in Petri nets proposed by U. Engberg and G. Winskel. We show that several categories of order algebras provide equivalent interpretations of this logic, and identify the category of the so called strongly coherent quantales arising in these interpretations. The equivalence of the interpretations is inti...

Ceremonial Dialogues in South America

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