Creamware and transfer-printed earthenware originate in England. Especially creamware was developed as a surrogate of much more expensive porcelain. It quickly spread through Europe. Also decorative patterns were developed in England. It is interesting that the same patterns could be found at some Slovenian workshops. It proves that the same taste and prestige developed here as in Europe.
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Eighteenth-century Europe was permeated by two dissimilar yet nevertheless connected ideas of the Enlightment and of Freemasonry. Since this was the time when printed word had the monopoly over information it soon becomes clear what an important role books on the conception of the Enlightening and Freemasonry really had. Some of the booksellers who were publishing or selling them were known to be members of the Freemasonic Lodge; others could have been only supportershe principal aim of this article was to show that prominent booksellers from different European towns were not connected only by books but also by other factors.
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The Roman cemetery at Laurinova ulica in Vipava yielded nine cremation graves in 2005. The graves span the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, as revealed by coins and other grave goods. The latter reflect a rather uniform picture that probably indicates typical burial rituals. The coins were laid into the graves after cremation, but only to adults; the burials of children did not reveal coin finds. An example of this is the burial of several individuals in the same grave; these are interpreted as family graves. The excavated part of the cemetery also allows certain conclusions to be drawn about the extent of the Roman settlement at Vipava.
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In the contribution the attitude towards the body, and the soul in Antiquity and the Middle Ages is presented in the light of the theories of art history, the history of mentalities, the French Anthropological School of Antiquity (EHESS). The medieval body was interpreted ambivalently. Some people believed that the body was a prison for the divine and immortal soul, while others thought it was an instrument of salvation.
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In this work non-destructive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) was used for determination of elemental content of reliquaries and also unique XRF analysing software for determination of elemental composition of gold coating and its thickness. This analytical option was not available by commercial XRF devices.
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