The Spanish Mines and the Development of Provincial Taxation in the Second Century B.C.

1976 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 139-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Similar System ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Fiscal Institutions ◽  
Mineral Wealth ◽  
First Time

Spain was famous for its mineral wealth long before the Romans arrived there. Stesichorus in the sixth century had written of the silver-rich river Tartessos, and the wealth extracted by the Carthaginians was well-known to later writers. The way in which Rome exploited these resources is of special interest. So large a source of profit must have benefited not only the state, but also the men who organized the working of the silver mines; and this in turn may well have led to political and social changes in Rome. Moreover in Spain for the first time the Romans had to evolve financial institutions and methods whereby an overseas province of substantial wealth might be taxed. The two Spanish provinces were not of course Rome's first possessions outside Italy; but Sicily already had a comprehensive set of fiscal institutions, known as the lex Hieronica, which the Romans had taken over along with their control of Hiero's kingdom, and which they had copied for the tax system in the rest of the island; while in the case of Sardinia, though very little indeed is known of the early period of its administration by Rome, the association in Livy's reports of its corn tithe with that of Sicily indicates that an essentially similar system was used there too. In the Spanish provinces therefore the Romans had few precedents in their own experience on which to draw.

The Date of the Muratorian Fragment

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-172
Author(s):  
John F. Lingelbach
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Church History ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Historical Theology ◽  
First Time ◽  
Objective Methodology

Three hundred years after its discovery, scholars find themselves unable to determine the more likely of the two hypotheses regarding the date of the Muratorian Fragment, which consists of a catalog of New Testament texts. Is the Fragment a late second- to early third-century composition or a fourth-century composition? This present work seeks to break the impasse. The study found that, by making an inference to the best explanation, a second-century date for the Fragment is preferred. This methodology consists of weighing the two hypotheses against five criteria: plausibility, explanatory scope, explanatory power, credibility, and simplicity. What makes this current work unique in its contribution to church history and historical theology is that it marks the first time the rigorous application of an objective methodology, known as “inference to the best explanation” (or IBE), has been formally applied to the problem of the Fragment’s date.

Banking on Failure

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard S Collier
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Current Position ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Tax Systems

This book seeks to explain why and how banks ‘game the system’. More specifically, its objective is to account for why banks are so often involved in cases of misconduct and why those cases often involve the exploitation of tax systems. To do this, a case study is presented in Part I of the book. This case study concerns a highly complex transaction (often referred to as ‘cum-ex’) designed to exploit a flaw at the intersection of the tax system and the financial markets settlements system. It was entered into by a very large number of banks and other financial institutions. A number of factors make the cum-ex transaction remarkable, including the sheer scale of the financial amounts involved, the large number of banks and financial institutions involved, the comprehensive failure of the controls infrastructure in this highly regulated sector, and the fact that authorities across Europe have found it so difficult to deal with the transaction. Part II of the book draws out the wider significance of cum-ex and what it tells us about modern banks and their interactions with tax systems. The account demonstrates why the exploitation of tax systems by banks is practically inevitable due to a variety of systemic features of the financial markets and of tax systems themselves. A number of possible responses to the current position are suggested in the final chapter.

scholarly journals ISMB 2003 Bio-ontologies SIG and Sixth Annual Bio-ontologies Meeting Report

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 663-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Lord ◽  
Robert Stevens
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Text Processing ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Meeting Report ◽  
The Many ◽  
First Time

The Annual Bio-Ontologies meeting (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/˜stevens/meeting03/) has now been running for 6 consecutive years, as a special interest group (SIG) of the much larger ISMB conference. It met in Brisbane, Australia, this summer, the first time it was held outside North America or Europe. The bio-ontologies meeting is 1 day long and normally has around 100 attendees. This year there were many fewer, no doubt a result of the distance, global politics and SARS. The meeting consisted of a series of 30 min talks with no formal peer review or publication. Talks ranged in style from fairly formal and complete pieces of work, through works in progress, to the very informal and discursive. Each year's meeting has a theme and this year it was ‘ontologies, and text processing’. There is a tendency for those submitting talks to ignore the theme completely, but this year's theme obviously struck a chord, as half the programme was about ontologies and text analysis (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/˜stevensr/meeting03/programme.html). Despite the smaller size of the meeting, the programme was particularly strong this year, meaning that the tension between allowing time for the many excellent talks, discussion and questions from the floor was particular keenly felt. A happy problem to have!

scholarly journals The lichens and allied fungi from the Leningrad Region and Saint Petersburg in the lichen herbarium of the University of Tartu

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Dmitry E. Himelbrant
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Leningrad Region ◽  
Karelian Isthmus ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Nature Park ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

The revision of specimens in the lichen herbarium of the University of Tartu revealed 127 specimens representing 86 species from the Leningrad Region and Saint Petersburg; these include Calicium adspersum published as a new species for the Leningrad Region and Carbonicola anthracophila reported for the first time for the Eastern Leningrad Region. A curious finding is Umbilicaria muehlenbergii, collected in 1954 in the northern part of Karelian Isthmus. Forgotten collections by Anne-Liis Sõmermaa (1972) from the territory of the modern Vepssky Forest Nature Park, by Haide-Ene Rebassoo (1988) from Maly Tuters Island (Vähä-Tytärsaari, Säyvö) and by Paul von Kühlewein (“regio Petropolitano”, 19th century) are of special interest. 

Computerized Legal Databases and Their Contents: Israel

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 201-207
Author(s):  
Eugenio I. Cuomo
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Legal Databases ◽  
First Time

The computer revolution in Israel began almost ten years ago, when computers for public use appeared for the first time in banks, challenging a very hesitant and embarassed public. After banks, other public and private institutions, especially financial institutions like insurance companies, the Stock Exchange and others, started producing databases for internal and external purposes.

Region and language variation

2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.K. Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Soft Drink ◽  
Language Variation ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Know How ◽  
Running Shoes ◽  
Primary Determinant ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
First Time

Traditional dialectology took region as its primary and often its only independent variable. Because of numerous social changes, region is no longer the primary determinant of language variation, and contemporary (sociolinguistic) dialectology has expanded the number of independent variables. In Dialect Topography, we survey a representative population, and that population inevitably includes some subjects born outside the survey region. We want to know how these non-natives affect language use in the community. Admitting them thus requires us to implement some mechanism for identifying them in order to compare their language use to the natives. The mechanism is called the Regionality Index (RI). Subjects are ranked on a scale from 1 to 7, with the best representatives of the region (indigenes) receiving a score of 1, the poorest (interlopers) a score of 7, and subjects of intermediate degrees of representativeness in between. I look at three case studies in which RI is significant: bureau in Quebec City, running shoes in the Golden Horseshoe, and soft drink in Quebec City. These results introduce a new dimension to the study of language variation as a regional phenomenon and provide a framework for the integration of regionality as one independent variable among many in dialect studies. The RI provides, perhaps for the first time, an empirical basis for inferring the sociolinguistic effects of mobility.

From the Book of Jeremiah to the Qumranic Apocryphon of Jeremiah

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 452-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devorah Dimant
Keyword(s):  
Early Period ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Greek Translation ◽  
Early Date ◽  
Narrative Fragments ◽  
Book Of Jeremiah

Abstract The article shows that the two narrative fragments of the Qumran second century B.C.E. Apocryphon of Jeremiah C (4Q385a 18 and 4Q389 1) elaborate traditions of the prophet Jeremiah and his scribe Baruch. The juxtaposition of the two types of traditions in a single work attests to its early date. Such an early period, and perhaps even earlier one, is also reflected by the Hebrew Vorlage of the book of Jeremiah. Like the Greek translation this Hebrew Vorlage probably juxtaposed as appendix the book of Baruch 1:1–3:8 to the book of Jeremiah.

Yoga and Psychoanalysis

1970 ◽  
Vol 116 (531) ◽  
pp. 201-206
Author(s):  
Harchand Singh Brar
Keyword(s):  
Complete System ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Very Old ◽  
Exact Time ◽  
First Time

The word ‘yoga’ is very old and occurs in early Upanishads like the Katha and the Svetasvatara as well as in Mahabharata but it was Patañjali who attempted for the first time to offer a complete system in his Yoga-Sutra. Authorities differ as regards the exact time of the composition of the Yoga-Sutra. According to some it was written in the second century b.c., whereas others believe that it was composed as late as the fourth century a.d.

scholarly journals Coin Alloys of Tauric Chersonese in the Period of Independence

2021 ◽  
pp. 374-401
Author(s):  
Tatiana N. Smekalova ◽  
Natalia L. Demidenko ◽  
Andrey N. Gavriluk
Keyword(s):  
Fluorescence Analysis ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Wine Production ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
The North ◽  
The Given ◽  
First Time

This paper presents the results of X-ray fluorescence analysis of the composition of alloys of the two largest collections of coins of ancient Chersonese residing in the State Historical and Archaeological Museum Preserve of Tauric Chersonese and the Yevpatoria Regional Museum. In total, about a thousand coins studied, which, together with the 400 coins previously examined from the State Hermitage Museum, constitutes a solid basis for conclusions. The given paper analyses the data obtained for coins of Chersonese in the Period of Independence, that is from the emergence of local coinage in the early fourth century BC to the wars of Diophantos in the late second century BC. For the first time it has been determined that big dichalkoi were minted from a special coin alloy, two-component high-tin bronze, in the period of economic prosperity of Chersonese in the second half of the fourth and third centuries BC. These coins served as the financial basis for important transformations in the near and distant chora: the land division system of vineyards and territorial expansion of Chersonese into the north-western Taurica. Only in the third century BC, in the period of an unprecedented consolidation of land properties and the transformation of the wine production into a commodity industry, the minting of large silver coins of full metal value began probably for big financial deals and payments in international trade. The crisis in the minting of Chersonese in the late second century BC touched silver drachmae, the overwhelming majority of which were minted from a low-grade silver alloy with the copper comprising more than a third of the composition. Thus, full-weight coins turned to conditional money.

scholarly journals Oleksandr Ivashutych, a student of Les Kurbas, as a universal figure in the theater of musical comedy

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (19) ◽  
pp. 345-357
Author(s):  
Yuliia Shchukina
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Market ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Charlie Chaplin ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Musical Comedy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dash Line ◽  
Set Up ◽  
First Time ◽  
Shed Light

Background. Analyzing the origins of the school of Kharkiv Academic Theater of Musical Comedy, we cannot ignore its founders. People’s Artist of the UzSSR O. Ivashutych was a director, head of the theatre (during the 1940s), drama actor from the year of its founding (1929) to 1971. Methods and novelty of the research. The research is based on historicalchronological, biographical, typological, and comparative methods with an element of performances and roles reconstruction. Not much is known about O. G. Ivashutych. The only encyclopedic reference about him (from the “Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine”) does not shed light on the director’s method, indirectly giving an idea only of the acting range. The work of Yu. Stanishevsky (1970) on the first forty years of musical comedy theaters of Ukraine (“Colors of Ukrainian operetta”) has several useful elements of reconstructions of the roles in the early period of O. Ivashutych’s work. N. Yermakova’s (2012) monograph “The Berezil Culture…” contains facts and important assessments of O. Ivashutych’s activity as a member of the Berezil Art Association. The author of this paper has collected more than 30 articles in the funds of scientific libraries and Specialized music and theater library of Kharkiv, as well as in the archives of KhATMK, and for the first time the information about the work of O. Ivashutych is analyzed. In addition, the actresses who worked with O. Ivashutych were interviewed. Therefore, this study is the first to reveal and systematize peculiarities of the creative path of O. Ivashutych, an actor, director, head of Kharkiv Theater of Musical Comedy. The director made about 40 productions on the stage of Kharkiv Theater of Musical Comedy and in Central Asia, where he was later evacuated. As an actor, O. Ivashutych played more than 100 versatile roles. The article aims to identify and characterize the main stages of the creative path of O. Ivashutych as well as differences between his acting and directing in different aesthetic eras. Results. O. Ivashutych’s creative individuality leaned towards the tragicomedy of Charlie Chaplin and Maryan Krushelnytsky. As a student of Les Kurbas in the Berezil Art Association and a member of the director’s laboratory of this theater, Les Ivashutych mastered the method of the famous avant-garde company, Les Ivashutich mastered the stage method of the famous avant-garde company, skillfully building rhythm of a performance and a role, turning to circusize, grotesque sharpening of images. In his directing work on the stage of the Musical Comedy Theater, O. Ivashutych, as a pupil of “The Berezil”, sought to consistently develop two repertoire trends: the embodiment of the best European classics (often exclusive in the country salon repertoire) and Ukrainian works (musical comedies and operettas by M. Verykivsky, M. Lysenko, O. Riabov). In our opinion, during these years L. Ivashutych drew a dash line of the European repertoire in his theater: he presented unique in the history of Kharkiv Theater of Musical Comedy operettas “The Borgia’s Garter” by K. Kraus, “Jeanne Who Cries and Jean Who Laughs” by J. Offenbach, “Ball at the Savoy” by P. Abraham (1940), “The Marriage Market” by V. Jacobi (1947), “The Eagle Feathers” by F. Farkas (1957), “Fraskita” by F. Lehár (1959), “The Waltz King” by J. Strauss (1961) and the first productions of famous operettas “Rose Marie” by G. Stotgardt and L. Friml (1942), “The Circus Princess” (1947), “Zorika (Gypsy Love)” by F. Lehár (directed by O. Ivashutych in the year of the composer’s death). In addition, O. Ivashutych staged four performances based on the musical comedies of the classic of Ukrainian operetta O. Riabov. The only performance, which could directly reveal the methodology of “The Berezil” was a fantastic comedy “Viy” (1951). The director also impressed with frank theatricality in circus scenes from the Milyutin’s operetta “Circus lights the fires” – together with choreographer A. Gulesco he managed to set up the style related to “girls” from “The Berezil” revues. Conclusions. Olexandr Ivashutych’s acting naturally evolved from the avantgarde of the 1920s – early 1930s, when he created, in particular, an eccentric image of Orpheus in the production of J. Offenbach, to the realistically psychological roles of 1950–1960, performed in a soft comedic manner (Amadeus in “The Bat”, Rooster in “Akulini”, Underwud in “The Kiss of Cianita”). L. Ivashutych worked as a director only during the period of the theater of “socialist realism”, which resulted in the corresponding realistic principles of his productions. However, even in such circumstances the director appreciated and skillfully used bright elements of theatrical imagery (fantasticality in “Viy” by M. Gogol, choreography in the spirit of the revue in “Circus lights the fires”). O. Ivashutych’s activity in Kharkiv Theater of Musical Comedy was based on the significant personal culture of the artist and his worldview of an intelligent leader.

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