An ethnopharmaceutical study focused on domestic cosmetics, cosmeceuticals, and remedies to heal skin diseases traditionally used in the inland part of the Marches region (Central-Eastern Italy) has been conducted. At present, traditional knowledge concerning home-made phytocosmetics is represented by both the remnants of an orally transmitted folk heritage and also by new forms of knowledge, s...

This paper explores the mutual influence between the institutional development in Athens in the archaic and classical periods and the contemporary changes in economic life. This enhances our understanding of the causes and consequences of institutional change. It is also worth exploring in view of the suggested connections between economic development, markets and democracy. Between 600 and 322...

Abstract To judge from wisdom literature and artistic production, the ideal man in pharaonic Egypt was as polite even-tempered he well groomed. This article examines evidence for warrior burials periods when state decentralized or relatively weak argues that conceptions of manhood fact oscillated between an irenic a more violent counterpart. Drawing upon comparative case studies advice given by...

cleaning up the houses and streets under their charge. This emphasis upon the amelioration of mortality extended to the occupational categorization adopted in the published reports on the successive decennial census of the second half of the nineteenth century. Classes were defined in terms of the materials with which and the manner in which people worked. There was no attempt at an economic an...

Is classical tragedy contingent upon a Greco-Roman sense of morality? Or can tragedy exist within a Judeo-Christian universe as well? Literary critic Northrop Frye’s theory of high-mimetic tragedy inherits distinctions that Aristotle draws between tragedy and comedy in the Poetics. As a brief philological excursion will demonstrate, the binary distinctions upon which Aristotle builds his tragic...

Subjectivity has always been a part of philosophical speculations. However, Immanuel 7 Kant is mentioned as the main figure to bring in subjectivity in modern philosophy by comparing 8 the Critique of Pure Reason with the Copernican revolution. We might include Descartes as well, and 9 not least the followers of Kant, like Fichte and Hegel. Yet none of these end up with subjectivity as 10 the o...

Abstract Los Trasplantados [the Transplanted; the Uprooted] (1904) relates saga of Canalejas, a Hispanic American family that travels to France educate their children. With sole purpose entering ranks European aristocracy, they ultimately sacrifice one daughters by way marriage. The patriarch’s entrepreneurial vocation for social climbing, which served him well as he successfully rose into prov...

Abstract The present paper sets out to investigate whether the conservative or upper RP accent of selected elderly speakers, namely three Mitford sisters, all members English aristocracy, manifests change diachronic stability and uniformity over time. typical features looked for were: LOT-CLOTH split, absence CURE-FORCE merger, SQUARE vowel realised as diphthong /εə/, SMOOTHING, KIT in unstress...

The historical television series Downton Abbey, based on a fictional member of the British peerage and his family, has become a phenomenon in the United States. Cunard is one of the oldest and most famous passenger transportation companies in the world. Among the ships in its corporate lineage are Lusitania, Titanic and Queen Mary. This article explores theoretical parallels between the show an...