La città di Trento tra Tardo Antico e Alto Medio Evo: la genesi della città medievale e lo spazio del sacro.

Lo scavo della chiesa di Santa MAria Maggiore ha permesso di acquisire nuove importanti informazioni sulla storia della città di Trento, sulla città tardo antica e sul processo di cristianizzazione. Il primo impianto ecclesiastico, datato a dopo la metà del V d. C. secolo, sorge su un precedente impianto termale realizzato intorno al II secolo d. C. ed appare caratterizzato da un forte carattere monumentale. La chiesa, a tre navate, presentava un presbiterio rialzato decorato in una prima fase da un opus sectile poi sostituito nel VI secolo da un mosaico policromo. Sono state rinvenute inoltre, parti consistenti della decorazione architettonica di fine VIII secolo pertinente questo stesso impianto che non subirà importanti modifiche fino alla realizzazione del successivo edificio di culto medievale, meno esteso e dai caratteri decisamente meno monumentali, caratterizzato dalla presenza di un esteso campo cimiteriale rinvenuto a nord della chiesa. A questo impianto ne succede un terzo, probabilmente a due navate, e dalla ricca decorazione pittorica demolito in età tardo rinascimentale per la realizzazione della chiesa attuale.

Exaltación y concordia doméstica : La esclavitud en dos ficciones cristianas: Hechos de Pedro y Hechos de Pablo

Los Hechos apócrifos de los apóstoles nos hablan de la transición entre el siglo II y el siglo III en las comunidades cristianas. Nuestro objetivo será analizar el rol de los esclavos y de la categoría de esclavitud en los dos Hechos apócrifos provenientes de Asia Menor: los Hechos de Pedro y los Hechos de Pablo. Luego realizaremos una comparación de posturas particulares a fin de inscribirlas y analizarlas a la luz de los procesos históricos que atravesaban las iglesias en ese momento

Exaltación y concordia doméstica : La esclavitud en dos ficciones cristianas: Hechos de Pedro y Hechos de Pablo

Los Hechos apócrifos de los apóstoles nos hablan de la transición entre el siglo II y el siglo III en las comunidades cristianas. Nuestro objetivo será analizar el rol de los esclavos y de la categoría de esclavitud en los dos Hechos apócrifos provenientes de Asia Menor: los Hechos de Pedro y los Hechos de Pablo. Luego realizaremos una comparación de posturas particulares a fin de inscribirlas y analizarlas a la luz de los procesos históricos que atravesaban las iglesias en ese momento

Exaltación y concordia doméstica : La esclavitud en dos ficciones cristianas: Hechos de Pedro y Hechos de Pablo

Los Hechos apócrifos de los apóstoles nos hablan de la transición entre el siglo II y el siglo III en las comunidades cristianas. Nuestro objetivo será analizar el rol de los esclavos y de la categoría de esclavitud en los dos Hechos apócrifos provenientes de Asia Menor: los Hechos de Pedro y los Hechos de Pablo. Luego realizaremos una comparación de posturas particulares a fin de inscribirlas y analizarlas a la luz de los procesos históricos que atravesaban las iglesias en ese momento

Lady Nugent and Tom Cringle on the veranda : early nineteenth century observations on a Caribbean architectural feature

This study of the veranda as seen through the eyes of Lady Maria Nugent and Michael Scott, alias Tom Cringle, clearly demonstrates the important role that the piazza, as it was then more commonly known, played in the life of early nineteenth century Caribbean colonial society. The popularity of the veranda throughout the region, in places influenced by different European as well as African cultures, and among all classes of people, suggests that the appeal of this typical feature was based on something more than architectural fashion. A place of relative comfort in hot weather, the veranda is also a space at the interface of indoors and outdoors which allows for a wide variety of uses, for solitary or small or large group activities, many of which were noted by Nugent and Scott. Quintessentially, the veranda is a place in which to relax and take pleasure, not least of which is the enjoyment of the prospect, be it a panoramic view, a peaceful garden or a lively street scene. Despite the great changes in the nature of society, in the Caribbean and in many other parts of the world, the veranda and related structures such as the balcony continue to play at least as important a role in daily life as they did two centuries ago. The veranda of today’s Californian or Australian bungalow, and the balcony of the apartment block in the residential area of the modern city are among the contemporary equivalents of the lower and upper piazzas of Lady Nugent’s and Tom Cringle’s day.

Can IT Security be improved with better IT Leadership in the 21st Century University?

Organizations generally are not responding effectively to rising IT security threats because people issues receive inadequate attention. The stark example of IT security is just the latest strategic IT priority demonstrating deficient IT leadership attention to the social dimension of IT. Universities in particular, with their devolved people organization, diverse adoption of IT, and split central/local federated approach to governance and leadership of IT, demand higher levels of interpersonal sophistication and strategic engagement from their IT leaders. An idealized model for IT leaders for the 21st century university is proposed to be developed as a framework for further investigation. The testing of this model in an action research study is proposed.

The Euro-American psyche and the imaging of Samoa in the early 20th century

Drawing on English language sources and material from Western Samoa (now Samoa), this examination of photographically illustrated serial encyclopaedia and magazines proposes an alternative historical analysis of the colonial photographs of Samoa, the most extensively covered field in Oceanic photographic studies. Photographs published between the 1890s and World War II were not necessarily from that era, and despite claims in the text of illustrated publications of an unchanged, enduring, archaic tradition in Samoa, the amazing variety of content and subject matter often offered contradictory evidence, depicting a modern, adaptive and progressive Samoa. Contrary to orthodox historical analysis, the images of Samoa in illustrated magazines and encyclopaedia were not limited to a small, repetitive gallery of partially clothed women and costumed chiefs.