key words: wall paintings, rocky hewn churches, Cappadocia (Turkey), pigments, Raman spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectrometry This paper presents the results of the analysis on the rock hewn wall paintings of eleven churches in Cappadocia, Turkey. A large group of churches in the region of Nevşehir were analysed in order to increase the database of materials and techniques of medie...

Jean-Marie Poumirol,1 Alessandro Cresti,2,* Stephan Roche,3,4 Walter Escoffier,1 Michel Goiran,1 Xinran Wang,5 Xiaolin Li,5 Hongjie Dai,5 and Bertrand Raquet1 1Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, INSA UPS CNRS, UPR 3228, Université de Toulouse, 143 avenue de Rangueil, 31400 Toulouse, France 2LETI, MINATEC, CEA, F38054 Grenoble, France 3INAC, SP2M, Lsim, CEA, 17 avenue des Mart...

D. Lançon,1,2 H. C. Walker,3 E. Ressouche,4 B. Ouladdiaf,1 K. C. Rule,5 G. J. McIntyre,5 T. J. Hicks,6 H. M. Rønnow,2 and A. R. Wildes1,* 1Institut Laue-Langevin, CS 20156, 38042 Grenoble Cédex 9, France 2Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, SB ICMP LQM, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 3ISIS facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK 4CEA-Grenoble/INAC, Lab...

O. Isnard,1,2 C. Rusu,3 R. Dudric,3 D. Andreica,3 A. Amato,4 and B. Chevalier5 1Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut Néel, F-38042 Grenoble, France 2CNRS, Institut Néel, 25 Rue des Martyrs, F-38042 Grenoble, France 3Faculty of Physics, Babeş-Bolyai University, RO-400084 Cluj Napoca, Romania 4Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland 5CNRS, U...

K. Chesnel,* M. Belakhovsky, F. Livet, S. P. Collins, G. van der Laan, S. S. Dhesi, J. P. Attané, and A. Marty CEA Grenoble, Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée, Service de Physique des Matériaux et Microstructures, 17, Rue des Martyrs, F-38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France LTPCM / INPG GRENOBLE, ENSEEG-Domaine Universitaire, BP 75-38402 Saint-Martin d’Hères Cedex, France ...

J. Coraux,1,2,* M. G. Proietti,3 V. Favre-Nicolin,1,2 H. Renevier,1,2 and B. Daudin1 1Commissariat l’Energie Atomique, Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée, SP2M/NRS, 17 rue des martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France 2Université Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 9, France 3Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales d...

A. Ozaeta,1 A. S. Vasenko,2 F. W. J. Hekking,3 and F. S. Bergeret1,4 1Centro de Fı́sica de Materiales (CFM-MPC), Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU, Manuel de Lardizabal 4, E-20018 San Sebastián, Spain 2Institut Laue-Langevin, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, BP 156, 38042 Grenoble, France 3LPMMC, Université Joseph Fourier and CNRS, 25 Avenue des Martyrs, BP 166, 38042 Grenoble, France 4Donostia International Physi...

Accounts of recoveries from accidental injuries in medieval children recorded among the posthumous miracles of saints are a particularly valuable source of information about childhood during an age for which such material is scarce. Whereas reports of miraculous healing of chronic illnesses or handicaps often emphasize the prayers offered and the sudden joyous return to health at the shrine in ...