Reagan's Foreign Policy: An Assessment (I) Introduction

The Western drama High Noon introduces political considerations deeper than the maelstrom of American anticommunism of the 1950s against which it is most often viewed. It presents the central problems of modern political obligation as arising out of an encounter between Aristotelian and Lockean ideas about marriage, friendship, consent and coercion, and religious obligation. The marshal Kane, representing the altered vestige of Aristotelian ideals, desperately seeks help from the Lockean-like community of Hadleyville. The resulting tension lays bare the political ambiguity many find inherent in American political life.     

The Thesaurus Exemplorum Medii Aevi (ThEMA): An Introduction

Abstract

Johannes Borquardi was a priest-brother at Vadstena Abbey from 1428 until his death in 1447. He was a renowned preacher and has left three extant volumes of sermons. At the end of many of his sermons, he writes suggestions for yet another sermon on the same theme or for the same day. There are some 60 such short texts, some mentioning only one or two suitable sources, others listing many books; sometimes they even give a Vadstena shelf-mark. These texts are invaluable for our knowledge of the Abbey library in many aspects. In some cases, we can check how Johannes himself used his own suggestions, since we also have his next product for the same feast. In this paper, I have studied how Johannes used one of his 'endnotes' to compose a sermon for St Matthias by cribbing from Peregrinus de Oppeln and Guilelmus Peraldus. I hope to show just how skilfully he uses his sources and how elegantly he pastes in his quotations, so that the sermon becomes a new, consistent and homogeneous text.     

An unusual basal beetle from Myanmar (Coleoptera: Archostemata)

Jarzembowski, E.A. &; Wang, B., February 2016. An unusual basal beetle from Myanmar (Coleoptera: Archostemata). Alcheringa 40, XX–XX. ISSN 0311-5518

A new archostematan beetle, Stegocoleus caii gen. et sp. nov. (Insecta: Coleoptera) is described from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber from northern Myanmar. This is the first basal beetle to be formally described from this deposit. It shows a unique combination of family characters and is provisionally referred to Cupedidae in the broad sense and possibly subfamily Ommatinae. The dorsal ornamentation and expanded elytra with window punctures make it a very distinctive albeit rare insect in this rich amber biota. Some of the challenges in studying the inclusions in this amber deposit include their diminutive size, difficulty in preparation and deformation.

Edmund Jarzembowski* [jarzembowski2@live.co.uk] and Bo Wang^? [bowang@nigpas.ac.cn], State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Rd, Nanjing 210008, PR China. *Also affiliated with: Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK. ?Also affiliated with: Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, PR China.     

釦器考略

"釦器"是一类以装饰技法命名的器物。通常意义上"釦器"是指以金属箍施于器物的口沿、底部、腹部、转角或附加钮、环、鋬、足、铺首等金属构件的一类漆器。釦器滥觞于西周,初步发展于战国及秦,兴盛于汉,中兴于宋。釦器的发展与漆器胎骨的变化有着密不可分的关系。釦器法除主要运用于漆木器之外,在玉器、玻璃器、玳瑁、象牙器上也有少量运用。镶釦漆器与镶釦瓷器是最常见的两类镶釦器物。镶釦瓷器源于唐,盛于宋,宋以后剧减。     

An Etruscan ointment from Chiusi (Tuscany,Italy): its chemical characterization

This paper focuses on the chemical characterization of the original contents of an Egyptian origin alabaster unguentarium, found in an Etruscan burial in Chiusi (Tuscany, Italy) and dated 150/125–100 B.C. The unguentarium, found in an intact tomb belonging to a noble woman of Chiusine society, preserved a good part of its original contents owing to a protective layer of clay. The chemical characterization was carried out using a combination of two analytical procedures based, respectively, on Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS).     

Oceanology (An introductory lecture to a university course)

The chairman of Moscow University's Department of Oceanology, one of the departments of the Geography Faculty, reviews briefly the history of the discipline in the Soviet Union and current research problems and methods.     

彼德·贝尔伍德(Peter Bellwood)教授访谈录

洪晓纯(以下简称洪):自上世纪70年代以来,您一直是东南亚和太平洋考古最具代表性的考古学家之一。可否请您谈谈您对这个区域的研究兴趣开始于何时?以及您这40年来的研究主题有什么更动?贝尔伍德:我对考古学的兴趣始于1960年,那时我才17岁。原因是那时我阅读了一些和考古学相关的大众读物。当时,我在家乡--英国莱斯特(Leicester)的一家制鞋工厂作学徒。1963年,经过考试我获得英国政府的奖学金进入剑桥大学国王学院,在那儿我学习罗马及欧洲考古直至1966年完成大学学业。     

试论青铜甗(鬲)形盉

在青铜器中,有一种带短流和把手(基本为卷曲的角形把手),而且流与把手之间大致呈90度夹角的器物,其器体多为觑形,也有个别的为鬲形。对于这种青铜器,目前学们尚未有一个较为明确的认识,多是就其有流有把手的特征称之为盂,并且依其器