Introduction The history of haematite iron ore mining in the Cumberland and Furness districts has been excellently described by Kendall (1893), and from a summary of this and works by Smith (1924), the following brief facts have been taken. The date of the first working of haematite in Cumberland and Furness is uncertain, but the exposed veins in the Lake District must have been known long befo...

In Rome, quite unlike Athens, there grew up a professional class of lawyers. These 'jurists' were originally priests, but in the course of the third century BC they came to profess a secular jurisprudence. Their role in the Roman legal system was pivotal: neither the magistrates responsible for granting legal remedies nor the judges who decided cases were lawyers; all looked to the jurists for ...

The article examines the historical and legal foundations of formation pharmaceutical activity in ancient world, which determined specifics its further development. topicality topic is due to fact that effective support as most accessible source obtaining necessary medicines medical products for citizens conditions a pandemic war has become extremely important. But order predict direction moder...

Class of 2006 Electrical Engineering How do people in power use history to shape current policy? How does current policy influence conceptions of history? Examining these questions, this paper addresses how British imperialists during the late 19th and early 20th centuries redefined their ideas about the classical Roman Empire to fit their (imperialist) ideologies, and how British imperial poli...

Review: Anna Mik, Signs of Exclusion. Monsters Inspired by Greek and Roman Mythology as Symbols Rejected Minorities in Literature, Film, TV-Series for Children Young Adults: From Mid-20th Until Early 21st Century, Wydawnictwo DiG, Warszawa 2022.

T PROTESTANT theologian Otto Dibelius made a prophetic statement when, in the title of a well-known book, he referred to the 20th century as "the century of the Church." Although treatises on the Church had appeared sporadically since the 14th century, ecclesiology had not yet assumed the central position in Catholic theology that it has enjoyed in our own century. The foundation of Theological...

Distribution ! e common carp [Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus (1758)] has been one of the oldest domesticated species of fi sh for food. Culture of carp in China dates back to at least the 5th century BC, although domestication began much later. ! e European races of carp derived from wild carp of the Danube; the earliest attempts date back to the Roman Empire and spread of Christianity in Europe, fro...

The book presents the settlement in a period of European history (late 3rd to early 7th century) when highly exposed areas between Late Antique capitals Ravenna and Constantinople underwent radical transformation. relentless pressure barbarian populations from beyond Roman limes resulted political, military, economic social changes that finally led decline former forms human habitation. Cities ...

The paper presents results of analysis of human skeletal remains recovered from Late Roman/Early Medieval cemetery of Novigrad (Istria). The "terminus post quem" for the site was established archaeologically as 5th or 6th century A.D. The aim of this work was detailed bioarchaeological analysis of each individual. It included determination of sex, age at the time of death, reconstruction of bod...