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...research field. So today, to make you feel part of this privilege, Venetian Crete artistic production, I have chosen a wonderful icon from that period to discuss with you and analyse. The object I will be discussing is an icon. For orthodoxy, icons are the ultimate way of communicating with divinity and heaven above. Icons function as a window that transports the faithful...

...research has been undertaken on the material evidence for ancient tourism. Whichever of these factors come into play, we hope you, too, saw this imbalance. Finally, some sources are referred to very specifically (‘Hdt 1.30’), while others are quite vague (‘colossi of Memnon and other pharaonic monuments’; ‘Pausanias’). Why is that? The precise references are...

...researchers refer to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, they tell their readers how to find the passage they are referring to by way of a numbering system which gives the number of the book followed by a full stop, then the number of the lines. For instance, in this activity, you are asked to read the first four lines of book 1, which is referenced as ‘1.1–4’. The line numbers...

...research into other aspects of social activity revealed substantial limits to the backlash thesis of the 1980s. These historians argued that the 1920s formed an important moment of modernity, marked by changing expectations and greater opportunities for young women (note that they introduce an important differential here, which I will refer to again below). Moreover, they...