By the time it had reached its zenith during the second-century of the Common Era, the Roman Empire had developed into one of the greatest civilizations the ancient world had ever known. Cities scattered across an imperial region that stretched from the North Sea to the Red Sea had flourished under a well-ordered governing body housed in Rome. These regional centers stood unfortified in the cou...

My previous essay in this series' drew attention to three main areas of inquiry concerning church governance in the first-century church in Rome: (1) an ancient Roman political governance pattern which may have furnished a background for the type of ecclesiastical governance used in that first-century Christian community, (2) pertinent contemporary Christian documents, and (3) ancient non-conte...

This report describes the state of the research and practice in the areas of metadata management systems. Open source and industrial products are presented and compared. Thereout we identified functional and non-functional requirements relevant for the TEAM project. Project co-funded by the European Commission under the “Information Society Technology” Programme, Framework Programme 6. D5: Repo...

136 glasses from the ninth-century monastery of San Vincenzo and its workshops have been analysed by electron microprobe in order to situate the assemblage within the first millennium CE glass making tradition. The majority of the glass compositions can be paralleled by Roman glass from the first to third centuries, with very few samples consistent with later compositional groups. Colours for t...

Dans cet itinéraire, Jean-François Draperi raconte son parcours de théoricien l’économie sociale (et solidaire) et pédagogue qui, dans la lignée d’Henri Desroche, met en œuvre des pratiques d’éducation populaire. Il transmet entretien un véritable pan d’histoire du monde coopératif, coopération, soulignant leur aspect révolutionnaire toujours d’actualité.