{"title":"‘Etched into the Soul’: The Education of Shorthand-Writers in Late Antiquity","authors":"Ella Kirsh","doi":"10.1017/s0075435824000261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435824000261","url":null,"abstract":"Surviving in excellent condition on papyri and wax tablets, the <jats:italic>Commentary</jats:italic> and other late antique shorthand manuals offer a new way to investigate the complexity and diversity of non-elite intellectual culture in the later Roman Empire. Stenographical skill and obedience were hymned by elite authors, but the methods used to inculcate that skill and extract that compliance have rarely been examined. This article, the first to subject shorthand pedagogy to social historical analysis, argues that the difficulty of the shorthand system increased the potency of the ideological lessons it delivered to its (predominantly non-elite, often enslaved) students. It finds that, in addition to technical instruction, the <jats:italic>Commentary</jats:italic> communicated a coherent, if troubling, vision of late ancient society and of the proper dispensation of power within it. Student-authored marginalia point to the successes and limits of the <jats:italic>Commentary</jats:italic>'s moral pedagogy and raise fresh questions about how non-elite communities developed their own intellectual identities and traditions.","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142192900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIESPub Date : 2024-07-01Epub Date: 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1007/s12291-023-01117-4
Shehnaz Sultana, M R Renjini Devi, Mahesh Kumar Rathod, Penagaluru Pardhanandana Reddy, Venkateshwari Ananthapur
{"title":"Are Altered Expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Placental Growth Factor Associated with Placental Angiogenesis in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss?","authors":"Shehnaz Sultana, M R Renjini Devi, Mahesh Kumar Rathod, Penagaluru Pardhanandana Reddy, Venkateshwari Ananthapur","doi":"10.1007/s12291-023-01117-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12291-023-01117-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Angiogenesis is one of the most important steps during pregnancy for placental and fetal development. Based on the hypothesis that vascular insufficiency and altered angiogenesis may lead to early pregnancy loss, the present study was aimed to understand the role of Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGFA) and Placental growth factor (PLGF) gene expression in placental angiogenesis in the pathogenesis of Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL). Gene expression analysis of VEGFA and PLGF was carried out in the placental tissue collected from 30 women with recurrent pregnancy loss and compared with the placenta obtained from 16 women with medically terminated pregnancy. The mRNA expression of both VEGFA and PLGF genes were significantly downregulated in the placenta of recurrent pregnancy loss in comparison to the placenta of medically terminated pregnancies. In conclusion the results of the present study suggest that altered expression of VEGFA and PLGF genes in placenta disturb the angiogenesis and contribute to the pathogenesis of recurrent pregnancy loss.</p>","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":"67 1","pages":"387-391"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11239627/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90406985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The significance of biomarkers of inflammation in predicting the activity of Lupus nephritis.","authors":"Violeta Rabrenović, Milica Petrović, Milorad Rabrenović, Dejan Pilčević, Nemanja Rančić","doi":"10.5937/jomb0-43457","DOIUrl":"10.5937/jomb0-43457","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Lupus nephritis (LN) is one of the most severe manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). There are increased studies examining the role of different markers that would facilitate diagnosis, LN activity monitoring, relapse occurrence, and the right time to introduce maintenance therapy. We aimed to examine the importance of determining the neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet/lymphocyte ratio (PLR), systemic immuneinflammatory index (SII) and systemic inflammatory response index (SIRI) in LN, comparing their significance with other standard parameters of active disease.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The clinical examination included 66 patients (34 with active and 32 with LN in remission) and 23 healthy controls. The investigated parameters were CRP, CBC, creatinine, albumin, GFR, C3, C4, ANA, anti-ds DNA Ab, in urine: sediment analysis, SLEDAI/r, proteinuria 24h and Up/cre. We determined the derived markers: NLR, PLR, SIRI, and SII and their correlation with other parameters of active disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":"92 1","pages":"116-125"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10943464/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90995338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JESSICA L. WRIGHT, THE CARE OF THE BRAIN IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY (Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 310. isbn 9780520387676. £80.00/US$95.00.","authors":"Giacomo Savani","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000916","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139174468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ESTHER EIDINOW, ARMIN W. GEERTZ and JOHN NORTH (EDS), COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO ANCIENT RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE (Ancient Religion and Cognition). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 299, illus. isbn 9781316515334. £75.00.","authors":"O. Panagiotidou","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000886","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":"271 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139002154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ANNE GANGLOFF and GILLES GORRE (EDS), LE CORPS DES SOUVERAINS DANS LES MONDES HELLÉNISTIQUE ET ROMAIN (Collection ‘Histoire’). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2021. Pp. 422, illus. isbn 9782753586482. €30.00.","authors":"Martijn Icks","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000849","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138980996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"OLIVERA ILIĆ, LATE ANTIQUITY AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN THE ROMAN PROVINCES OF MOESIA PRIMA AND DACIA RIPENSIS (BAR International series S3101). Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2022. Pp. xiii + 87, illus. isbn 9781407360331. £29.00.","authors":"Ulrike Roth","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000898","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":"51 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138982108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ELIZABETH D. CARNEY and SABINE MÜLLER (EDS), THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO WOMEN AND MONARCHY IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD (Routledge Companions). London and New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. xviii + 537, illus. isbn 9781138358843 (hbk). £190.00.","authors":"Julia Hillner","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000837","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":"27 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138604211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DALIDA AGRI, READING FEAR IN FLAVIAN EPIC: EMOTION, POWER, AND STOICISM. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. x+244. isbn 9780192859303. £65.00.","authors":"Chiara Graf","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000825","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":"29 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138604241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JUAN FRANCISCO RODRÍGUEZ NEILA, POLíTICA Y ELECCIONES MUNICIPALES EN EL IMPERIO ROMANO: UNA VISIóN DESDE LA PROVINCIA HISPANIA VLTERIOR BAETICA (Colección historia 383). Seville: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2021. Pp. 749, illus. isbn 9788447222230. €21.00.","authors":"Federico Russo","doi":"10.1017/s0075435823000904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435823000904","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51654,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES","volume":"227 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139242492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}