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This book is made up of contributions dealing with heritage stones from different countries around the world. The stones are described, as well as their use in vernacular and contemporaneous architecture. Heritage stones are those stones that have special significance in human culture. Examples include some very important stones that have been either neglected because they are no longer extracted, or stones that have great significance in commercial terms but knowledge of their national and/or international heritage has not been well documented. In this collection of articles, we have tried to spread awareness of architectural heritage around the world, the natural stones that have been used...
Rivers are an excellent witness of the dynamics affecting Earth’s surface due to their sedimentary products and morphological expression, which may be considered as fluvial archives. Until now, the focus has been on evaluating the general impact of individual external factors. However, the importance of the specific environmental characteristics of these factors has become increasingly recognized, as highlighted in recent case studies. For example, the effects of regional climate, differentiated topography and vegetation, and frozen ground appear to play an essential role in the evolution of the fluvial system. Integration of such environmental conditions in the processes that were active within the complex fluvial system will open new perspectives in our progressive understanding of the evolution of landscape form, ecology, sediment fluxes, and hydrology of the system within the framework of the external drivers such as tectonics, general climate, and human activity. This is an appealing challenge that we wish to address in the present Special Issue under the aegis of the Fluvial Archives Group (FLAG).
This book comprises the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 1st Conference on Georesources, Geomaterials, Geotechnologies and Geoenvironment (4GEO), Porto, Portugal, on November 7–8, 2019. The book interests all researchers, practitioners, and students in engineering geosciences, geotechnics, georesources, materials engineering, and earth and environmental sciences. Georesources, geomaterials, geotechnologies, and geoenvironment are very topical subjects and therefore deserve a deeper reflection by academia, practitioners, and society. That approach is vital to a correct sustainable resource management and an engineering design with nature within a geoethical framework. Georesources, understo...
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This volume builds upon the new worldwide interest in the global Middle Ages. It investigates the prismatic heritage and eclectic artistic production of Eastern Europe between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, while challenging the temporal and geographical parameters of the study of medieval, Byzantine, post-Byzantine, and early-modern art. Contact and interchange between primarily the Latin, Greek, and Slavic cultural spheres resulted in local assimilations of select elements that reshaped the artistic landscapes of regions of the Balkan Peninsula, the Carpathian Mountains, and further north. The specificities of each region, and, in modern times, politics and nationalistic approac...
Esta obra junta várias contribuições de especialistas em áreas muito diversas do saber, para discutir o tema ‘Luz’ de vários pontos de vista. Os temas reunidos nesta obra provêm das áreas de Física, Filosofia, Transcendência, Química, Ótica, Geologia, Literatura, História das Ciências, História, Geografia, Relações Internacionais, Biologia, Psicologia, Arte, Cinema e Fotografia, Medicina e Museologia. Os textos reflectem parcialmente os conteúdos apresentados no colóquio interdisciplinar ‘Visões da Luz’ realizado em Outubro de 2015, por ocasião do Ano Internacional da Luz de 2015, sob a égide do III-UC e aberto ao meio académico e à sociedade, em particular, a professores dos Ensinos Básico e Secundário.
Quando na manhãzinha do dia 2 de Março de 1995, viajávamos de Coimbra para S. Jorge, acalentávamos na alma uma profunda esperança na possibilidade de rever ou de completar aquilo que, a propósito do combate de 14 de Agosto de 1385, havia já sido escrito nas décadas anteriores. Evidentemente, tínhamos conhecimento de que a "batalha de aljubarrota" constituía já um volumoso dossier, construído pela combinação dos meritórios esforços de muitos, talvez de dezenas, de historiadores e de outros estudiosos, que à sua análise se haviam entregado com paixão. Estávamos, apesar disso, convencidos de que o assunto não se encontrava ainda encerrado, facto que - sem pretendermos ser a...
Vestidos para Matar analisa o armamento individual defensivo e ofensivo utilizado pelos combatentes medievais portugueses no século XV. O leitor é convidado a escutar o eco das armas que soa nas páginas das principais crónicas portuguesas do século XV, desde a Crónica dos Sete Reis, até à Crónica de D. Duarte, de Rui de Pina, passando pelas obras mais marcantes de Fernão Lopes e Gomes Eanes de Zurara. Este estudo fornece aos leitores um levantamento das referências mais importantes a todos os tipos de armamento encontradas nas crónicas acima referidas, devidamente ordenadas em tabelas que podem ser consultadas e descarregadas online, na página da Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.