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Over the past decade, there have been many international calls to
strengthen and support/sustain research capacity in lower- and
middle-income countries (LMICs). This capacity is considered an
essential foundation for cost-effective healthcare systems. While
there have been long-standing investments by many countries and
research funding organisations in the training of individuals for
this purpose, in many LMICs research capacity remains fragmented,
uneven and fragile. There is growing recognition that a more
systems-oriented approach to research capacity-building is
required. Nonetheless, there are considerable gaps in the evidence
for approaches to capacity-building that are effective and
sustainable. This book addresses these gaps, capturing what was
learned from teams working on The Global Health Research
Initiative. This book brings together the experiences of research
capacity-building teams co-led by Canadians and LMIC researchers in
several regions of the world, including Jamaica, Kenya, Sierra
Leone, South Africa and Uganda.
In the first major work on the subject for over 30 years, Nancy
Edwards provides a critical survey of the archaeological evidence
in Ireland (c. 400-1200), introducing material from many recently
discovered sites as well as reassessing the importance of earlier
excavations. Beginning with an assessment of Roman influence, Dr
Edwards then discusses the themse of settlement, food and farming,
craft and technology, the church and art, concluding with an
appraisal of the Viking impact. The archaeological evidence for the
period is also particularly rich and wide-ranging and our knowledge
is expanding repidly in the light of modern techniques of survey
and excavation.
In the first major work on the subject for over 30 years, Nancy
Edwards provides a critical survey of the archaeological evidence
in Ireland (c. 400-1200), introducing material from many recently
discovered sites as well as reassessing the importance of earlier
excavations. Beginning with an assessment of Roman influence, Dr
Edwards then discusses the themse of settlement, food and farming,
craft and technology, the church and art, concluding with an
appraisal of the Viking impact. The archaeological evidence for the
period is also particularly rich and wide-ranging and our knowledge
is expanding repidly in the light of modern techniques of survey
and excavation.
This book examines what we know and do not know about different
aspects of the archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches in
Celtic-speaking areas of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, south-west
Britain and Brittany to compare and contrast the evidence and to
suggest some avenues for future research.
A handsome coffee table guide to the celebrated collection of the
Kimbell Art Museum In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of
the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, this deluxe volume
showcases its world-renowned collection. The book includes engaging
texts by Kimbell curators accompanied by new, full-color
photographs of more than 250 works from antiquity to the twentieth
century. A jewel among American museums, the Kimbell possesses
European masterpieces by artists such as Fra Angelico,
Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Diego Velázquez,
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Pablo
Picasso, and Henri Matisse; important collections of Egyptian and
classical antiquities; and outstanding works from Asia, Africa, and
the ancient Americas. This new guide also features previously
unpublished images of the museum’s architecture by Louis I. Kahn
and Renzo Piano. Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum
Research for and the writing of this book was funded by the award
of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. The period c.
AD300—1050, spanning the collapse of Roman rule to the coming of
the Normans, was formative in the development of Wales. Life in
Early Medieval Wales considers how people lived in late Roman and
early medieval Wales, and how their lives and communities changed
over the course of this period. It uses a multidisciplinary
approach, focusing on the growing body of archaeological evidence
set alongside the early medieval written sources together with
place-names and personal names. It begins by analysing earlier
research and the range of sources, the significance of the
environment and climate change, and ways of calculating time.
Discussion of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries focuses on the
disintegration of the Roman market economy, fragmentation of power,
and the emergence of new kingdoms and elites alongside evidence for
changing identities, as well as important threads of continuity,
notably Latin literacy, Christianity, and the continuation of
small-scale farming communities. Early medieval Wales was an
entirely rural society. Analysis of the settlement archaeology
includes key sites such as hillforts, including Dinas Powys, the
royal crannog at Llangorse, and the Viking Age and earlier estate
centre at Llanbedrgoch alongside the development, from the seventh
century onwards, of new farming and other rural settlements.
Consideration is given to changes in the mixed farming economy
reflecting climate deterioration and a need for food security, as
well as craft working and the roles of exchange, display, and trade
reflecting changing outside contacts. At the same time cemeteries
and inscribed stones, stone sculpture and early church sites chart
the course of conversion to Christianity, the rise of monasticism,
and the increasing power of the Church. Finally, discussion of
power and authority analyses emerging evidence for sites of
assembly, the rise of Mercia, and increasing English infiltration,
together with the significance of Offa's and Wat's Dykes, and the
Viking impact. Throughout the evidence is placed within a wider
context enabling comparison with other parts of Britain and Ireland
and, where appropriate, with other parts of Europe to see broader
trends, including the impacts of climate, economic, and religious
change.
The twenty-five papers, taken from a Cardiff conference in 1998,
are concerned with Insular art in its broadest sense, encompassing
studies of metalwork, manuscripts, sculpture and textiles, both
recent discoveries and new investigations of well-known objects.
They include material associated with Anglo-Saxon England as well
as early Medieval Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and discoveries of
Insular metalwork in Scandinavia. They are divided into five themes
which reflect the many recent advances in the study of Insular art:
politics and patrons; national and regional identities; art and
archaeology; the implications of scientific analysis and style;
analysis, methodology and meaning.
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