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Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest
"This book examines the complex transition of North Africa from the Late Roman period to the Arab conquest, focusing on three provinces: Zeugitana, Byzacena and Tripolitana. In particular, it considers the continuity and transformation of towns, as a result of economic, political and social changes. The period sees the wide diffusion of Christianity, the imposition of Vandal rule and Arianism, the presence of a new Empire and the Arab/Muslim takeover. It is also a period of archaeological and material transition: physically towns changed and classical structures, in particular, decayed and were reused. The evidence considered here encompasses a wide range of material, including publications from 1800 (Italian and French colonial excavations) to modern times. These data form the basis for a detailed review of archaeological evidence in this geographical area and for the analysis of the processes of evolution that characterised North African cities"--
A Companion to Roman Architecture
A Companion to Roman Architecture presents a comprehensive review of the critical issues and approaches that have transformed scholarly understanding in recent decades in one easy-to-reference volume. Offers a cross-disciplinary approach to Roman architecture, spanning technology, history, art, politics, and archaeology Brings together contributions by leading scholars in architectural history An essential guide to recent scholarship, covering new archaeological discoveries, lesser known buildings, new technologies and space and construction Includes extensive, up-to-date bibliography and glossary of key Roman architectural terms
Death and the Emperor
The role of monuments in the Roman imperial cult. “Davies sets out to ask, How did the Romans bury Caesar? And with what monuments did they sing his praises? . . . The architectural elaboration of these structures, their siting in the capital, the lines of vision and approaches that exposed them to view, the paths their complex outworks formed for visitors to walk, are all picked out with skill and presented with care in Death and the Emperor.” Times Literary Supplement “This concise and lucidly written book is a very valuable new contribution to the studies of Roman imperial cult, political propaganda, and topography, and has the added benefit of discussing complex scholarly disputes ...
Lepcis Magna Hunting Baths. Building, Restoration, Promotion
La pubblicazione fa parte de progetto ENI che ha come finalità la riscoperta e valorizzazione dei Beni Culturali della Libia. Vengono qui presentati gli affreschi delle Terme della caccia di Lepcis/Leptis Magna e il loro restauro attraverso l’utilizzo delle tecnologie più avanzate. Il volume è corredato da un ampio e approfondito materiale iconografico e un’intera sezione è dedicata alla documentazione fotografica degli affreschi. Pubblicazione a cura di eni north africa, Tripoli, Lybia – NOC-National Oil Corporation – Department of Archaeology of Libya – Università Roma Tre
The End of the Pagan City
This book focuses primarily on the end of the pagan religious tradition and the dismantling of its material form in North Africa (modern Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) from the 4th to the 6th centuries AD. Leone considers how urban communities changed, why some traditions were lost and some others continued, and whether these carried the same value and meaning upon doing so. Addressing two main issues, mainly from an archaeological perspective, the volume explores the change in religious habits and practices, and the consequent recycling and reuse of pagan monuments and materials, and investigates to what extent these physical processes were driven by religious motivations and contrasts, or were merely stimulated by economic issues.
Under Divine Auspices
Exploration of the role played by deities in the negotiation of imperial power under the Severan dynasty (AD 193-235).
Courts, Elites, and Gendered Power in the Early Middle Ages
A major theme in the present volume of articles by Janet Nelson is the usefulness of gender as a category of historical analysis. Some papers range more widely across early medieval time and geographical as well as social space, but most focus on the Carolingian period and on royalty and elites. The workings of dynastic political power are viewed in social as well as political context, and the author explores the realities of gendered power, which while constraining women, gave them distinctive possibilities for agency. These papers offer new perspectives on the Carolingian world in general and on Charlemagne's reign in particular.
Innovative Vaulting in the Architecture of the Roman Empire
This book on Roman construction explains why and how Roman builders employed a set of unusual vaulting techniques and explores why each is confined to a particular area of the Empire. It is written to be accessible to advanced students as well as experts in the field.
Transformers for Natural Language Processing
OpenAI's GPT-3, ChatGPT, GPT-4 and Hugging Face transformers for language tasks in one book. Get a taste of the future of transformers, including computer vision tasks and code writing and assistance. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format Key Features Improve your productivity with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4 from prompt engineering to creating and analyzing machine learning models Pretrain a BERT-based model from scratch using Hugging Face Fine-tune powerful transformer models, including OpenAI's GPT-3, to learn the logic of your data Book DescriptionTransformers are...well...transforming the world of AI. There are many platforms and models out there, but...
