Michael J Allen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 287993 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael J Allen |
| PRENOMES | Michael J |
| SOBRENOME | Allen |
| ASSINATURA | ALLEN M J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8504-7171 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 80 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 164 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Assessing Community Resilience Estimates for Heat Using the Virginia Heat Mapping Campaigns
Heat poses a significant health burden for communities around the world. In the face of anthropogenic climate change, understanding how thermal exposure varies across urban areas is of great interest to public health practitioners, emergency managers, urban planners, and environmental scientists. Using the newly developed U.S. Census Bureau Community Resilience Estimates (CRE) for heat, this study investigates hyperlocal variability of thermal co…
A Date with the Two Cerne Giants
The Second Ficino-Pico Controversy
The Alluvial Geoarchaeology of the Upper River Kennet in the Avebury Landscape
Geoarchaeological research as part of the AHRC funded Living with Monuments (LwM) project investigated the upper Kennet river system across the Avebury World Heritage landscape. The results demonstrate that in the early–mid-Holocene ( c. 9500–1000 bc ) there was very low erosion of disturbed soils into the floodplain, with floodplain deposits confined to a naturally forming bedload fluvial deposit aggrading in a shallow channel of inter-linked de…
Critical physical geographies of air, atmosphere, and climate
The material condition of the earth's atmosphere exerts a significant influence on how humans live and die. Therefore, understanding how and why atmospheric processes unevenly impact communities, because of the changing material condition of air, provides an opportunity to address current and future climate risks through interdisciplinary perspectives. Using critical physical geography as a framework, this review provides perspective on how physi…
Thermal (In)equity and incarceration
Despite overall societal progress in reducing adverse impacts of heat and cold, incarcerated populations remain highly vulnerable to environmental stressors. Incarcerated populations experience a combination of risk factors related to their physical health and well-being that increase their thermal vulnerability: social isolation, disproportionate mental health issues, comorbidities, limited mobility, and a reliance on external factors to provide…
Dorstone Hill
Studies of early fourth-millennium BC Britain have typically focused on the Early Neolithic sites of Wessex and Orkney; what can the investigation of sites located in areas beyond these core regions add? The authors report on excavations (2011-2019) at Dorstone Hill in Herefordshire, which have revealed a remarkable complex of Early Neolithic monuments: three long barrows constructed on the footprints of three timber buildings that had been delib…
Observations of Delayed Changes in Respiratory Function among Allergy Clinic Patients Exposed to Wildfire Smoke
Wildfires have increased in frequency and magnitude and pose a significant public health challenge. The principal objective of this study was to assess the impact of wildfire smoke on respiratory peak flow performance of patients exposed to two different wildfire events. This longitudinal study utilized an observational approach and a cohort study design with a patient-level clinical dataset from a local outpatient allergy clinic ( n = 842). Mete…
Cases and Materials on Constitutional and Administrative Law
Cases & Materials on Constitutional and Administrative Law is an invaluable resource. Extracts have been chosen from a wide range of historical and contemporary cases and materials to illustrate the reasoning processes of the courts and to show how legal principles are developed. The extracts from the leading cases in the field are combined with legal, political, and philosophical materials and linked together with explanatory text, alongside ext…
Recent Trends in Heat-Related Mortality in the United States
Much research has shown a general decrease in the negative health response to extreme heat events in recent decades. With a society that is growing older, and a climate that is warming, whether this trend can continue is an open question. Using eight additional years of mortality data, we extend our previous research to explore trends in heat-related mortality across the United States. For the period 1975–2018, we examined the mortality associate…
Exploring Spatial Patterns of Virginia Tornadoes Using Kernel Density and Space-Time Cube Analysis (1960–2019)
This study evaluates the spatial-temporal patterns in Virginia tornadoes using the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center’s Severe Weather GIS (SVRGIS) database. In addition to descriptive statistics, the analysis employs Kernel Density Estimation for spatial pattern analysis and space-time cubes to visualize the spatiotemporal frequency of tornadoes and potential trends. Most of the 726 tornadoes between 1960–2019 occurred in Eastern V…
The inverted dead of Britain's Bronze Age barrows
Barrows are a prominent feature of Britain's Bronze Age landscape. While they originated as burial monuments, they also appear to have acquired other roles in prehistory. British prehistorians, however, have been hampered in their interpretations of these monuments, as they are wary of speculating about how Bronze Age people might have conceptualised their dead. Here, the authors suggest that a recurring pattern of inversion is significant. They …
Challenges in Upgrading Emergency Power in Florida Nursing Homes following Hurricane Irma
Maintaining and restoring electricity after a disaster helps to preserve the health and well-being of the elderly who are at increased risk of heat stress and may be dependent upon life-sustaining medical equipment. Mitigation policies altered in reaction to increased public interest without thorough consideration of industry-specific resources may contribute to delays in implementation and unrealized potential for emergency power coverage within…
The Mortality Response to Absolute and Relative Temperature Extremes
While the impact of absolute extreme temperatures on human health has been amply studied, far less attention has been given to relative temperature extremes, that is, events that are highly unusual for the time of year but not necessarily extreme relative to a location's overall climate. In this research, we use a recently defined extreme temperature event metric to define absolute extreme heat events (EHE) and extreme cold events (ECE) using abs…
The social organisation of metalworking in southern England during the Beaker period and Bronze Age
This paper attempts to consider the social dimensions of metalworking during the Beaker period and Bronze Age in southern England. However, any attempt to discuss the social context of metalworking in these periods, i.e. who was working metals and where these activities occurred, is confronted with an extremely low evidence base of excavated archaeological sites where metalworking is known to have taken place. This lack of data and subsequent und…
The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance
The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning. Christopher S. Celenza. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xvi + 438 pp. $120. - Volume 72 Issue 3
The Pain Was Unbelievably Deep
Temporal trends in human vulnerability to excessive heat
Over recent decades, studies have examined various morbidity and mortality outcomes associated with heat exposure. This review explores the collective knowledge of the temporal trends of heat on human health, with regard to the hypothesis that humans are less vulnerable to heat events presently than in the past. Using Web of Science and Scopus, the authors identified all peer-reviewed articles that contained keywords on human impact (e.g. mortali…
The Sage Encyclopedia Of Communication Research Methods
Participatory Augering
Public engagement is a significant feature of twenty-first-century archaeological practice. While more diverse audiences are connecting with the discipline in a multitude of ways, public perceptions of archaeology are still marred by stereotypes. Community excavations of ‘sites’ to discover ‘treasures’ which tell us about the ‘past’ overshadow other forms of public research output and hinder the potential of the discipline to contribute to contem…
Finding Alcatrazes and early Luso-African settlement on Santiago Island, Cape Verde
After the Portuguese discovered the Cape Verde Islands in AD 1456 they divided its main island, Santiago, into two governing captaincies. The founding settlement in the south-west, Cidade Velha, soon became the Islands' capital and a thriving trade centre; in contrast, that in the east, Alcatrazes, only lasted as an official seat from 1484-1516 and is held to have 'failed' (see Richter 2015
Changing Discourses in Climate Health
Marsilio Ficino and the phaedran charioteer
Holding on to the past
Perspectives on the Synoptic Climate Classification and its Role in Interdisciplinary Research
Synoptic climatology has a long history of research where weather data are aggregated and composited to gain a better understanding of atmospheric effects on non-atmospheric variables. This has resulted in an applied scientific discipline that yields methods and tools designed for applications across disciplinary boundaries. The spatial synoptic classification (SSC) is an example of such a tool that helps researchers bridge methodological gaps be…
Archaeological soil and pollen analysis of experimental floor deposits; with special reference to Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire, UK
Inscribed Landscapes
Thermal (In)equity and incarceration
Despite overall societal progress in reducing adverse impacts of heat and cold, incarcerated populations remain highly vulnerable to environmental stressors. Incarcerated populations experience a combination of risk factors related to their physical health and well-being that increase their thermal vulnerability: social isolation, disproportionate mental health issues, comorbidities, limited mobility, and a reliance on external factors to provide…
Finding Alcatrazes and early Luso-African settlement on Santiago Island, Cape Verde
After the Portuguese discovered the Cape Verde Islands in AD 1456 they divided its main island, Santiago, into two governing captaincies. The founding settlement in the south-west, Cidade Velha, soon became the Islands' capital and a thriving trade centre; in contrast, that in the east, Alcatrazes, only lasted as an official seat from 1484-1516 and is held to have 'failed' (see Richter 2015
An Early Mesolithic Seasonal Hunting Site in the Kennet Valley, Southern England
A small-scale excavation, undertaken in advance of building works at Faraday Road, Newbury, Berkshire, encountered an apparently intact Early Mesolithic layer containing abundant worked flint directly associated with animal bones. The site lay on the floodplain of the River Kennet in an area already well-known for Mesolithic remains and certainly represents an extension of the site found at nearby Greenham Dairy Farm in 1963. The flint assemblage…
New perspectives on Holocene landscape development in the southern English chalklands
A combination of on‐ and off‐site paleoenvironmental and archaeological investigations of the upper Allen valley of Dorset, conducted from 1998–2002, has begun to indicate a different model of prehistoric landscape development to those previously put forward for this part of the southern English chalk downlands. Woodland growth in the earlier Holocene appears to have been slower and patchier than the presumed model of full climax deciduous woodla…
Marsilio Ficino on Plato, the Neoplatonists and the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity
We are accustomed to thinking of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) as the great Renaissance champion of Plato from a Christian point of view and the leader of those who wished to effect an accommodation between Platonism (or more accurately Neoplatonism) and Christianity, as the most distinguished of Plato's several Medicean apologists. Many texts lend credibility to this interpretation of Ficino's goals, and it is essentially correct. However, it is i…
First Images of America
Journal Article First Images of America: The Impact of the New World on the Old. Ed. by Fredi Chiappelli, Michael J. B. Allen, and Robert L. Benson. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. Vol. I: xxii + 515 pp. Illustrations and notes. Vol. II: xviii + 442 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and indexes. $75.00/set.) Get access Alden T. Vaughan Alden T. Vaughan Columbia University Search for other works by this…
Durrington Walls to West Amesbury by way of Stonehenge
A new sequence of Holocene landscape change has been discovered through an investigation of sediment sequences, palaeosols, pollen and molluscan data discovered during the Stonehenge Riverside Project. The early post-glacial vegetational succession in the Avon valley at Durrington Walls was apparently slow and partial, with intermittent woodland modification and the opening-up of this landscape in the later Mesolithic and earlier Neolithic, thoug…
Neolithic Causewayed Enclosures and Later Prehistoric Farming
Developer-funded archaeology on the Isle of Sheppey resulted in the discovery of not one but two Neolithic causewayed enclosures on the same hilltop in very close (c. 300 m) proximity. In the later Bronze Age enclosures and cremation cemeteries were constructed immediately to the east, followed by Iron Age enclosures and, ultimately, field systems dating to the later Iron Age onwards. A radiocarbon programme enabled the chronological sequence and…
Food for the Living
The analysis of Bronze Age barrow sites excavated as long ago as 25 years can provide information on more significant and wide ranging topics than basic funerary rites. At Buckskin no primary burial rite was recorded nor any high status artefacts found. The analysis, of stored soil samples and animal bones however, produced evidence for ceremonial activity and feasting prior to the construction of the barrow mound. This encourages discussion on b…
Critical physical geographies of air, atmosphere, and climate
The material condition of the earth's atmosphere exerts a significant influence on how humans live and die. Therefore, understanding how and why atmospheric processes unevenly impact communities, because of the changing material condition of air, provides an opportunity to address current and future climate risks through interdisciplinary perspectives. Using critical physical geography as a framework, this review provides perspective on how physi…
Stonehenge's Avenue and 'Bluestonehenge
An Early Prehistoric Shaft on Cranborne Chase
Continuing field work on Cranborne Chase has examined a unique shaft in Fir Tree Field, Down Farm in the parish of Gussage St Michael. Although shafts are known in prehistoric contexts elsewhere in England in the form of Neolithic flint mines, ritual shafts and even Bronze Age wells (Wilsford), the shaft reported here is particularly early and remains, at present, unexplained. Excavation and augering has revealed a shaft over 25 m deep containing…
Heat–Health Warning Systems
Objectives. We compared the ability of several heat–health warning systems to predict days of heat-associated mortality using common data sets. Methods. Heat–health warning systems initiate emergency public health interventions once forecasts have identified weather conditions to breach predetermined trigger levels. We examined 4 commonly used trigger-setting approaches: (1) synoptic classification, (2) epidemiologic assessment of the temperature…
Beaker Settlement and Environment on the Chalk Downs of Southern England
This paper is dedicated to John Evans, environmental archaeologist extraordinaire, who died 14 June 2005, while this paper was in press. He continually reminded us that environmental data should address questions of people and landscape and be relevant to the understanding of Prehistory by our archaeological colleagues. The Beaker period in north-west Europe is abound with objects, burials, and monuments, but evidence of settlement and domestic l…
The inverted dead of Britain's Bronze Age barrows
Barrows are a prominent feature of Britain's Bronze Age landscape. While they originated as burial monuments, they also appear to have acquired other roles in prehistory. British prehistorians, however, have been hampered in their interpretations of these monuments, as they are wary of speculating about how Bronze Age people might have conceptualised their dead. Here, the authors suggest that a recurring pattern of inversion is significant. They …
A Final Upper Palaeolithic Site at La Sagesse Convent, Romsey, Hampshire
Excavations at La Sagesse Convent, Romsey, uncovered a Final Upper Palaeolithic flint assemblage representing an open-air, short-term camp. The site is in the Test Valley on a low gravel terrace at the edge of the river system. Two scatters were found. Although not in situ, little lateral movement is indicated for at least one of these scatters from which several core reduction sequences could be determined through a programme of refitting. The o…
Archaeological and Palaeo-environmental Investigations of the Upper Allen Valley, Cranborne Chase, Dorset (1998–2000)
A combination of on- and off-site palaeo-environmental and archaeological investigations of the upper Allen valley of Dorset conducted in 1998–2000 has begun to reveal a different model of landscape development than those previously put forward. A combination of off-site geoarchaeological and aerial photographic survey and palynological analyses of two relict palaeochannel systems, and sample investigations of four Bronze Age round barrows and a …
A Neolithic Trackway within Peat Deposits at Silvertown, London
Excavations at Fort Street, Silvertown, London revealed a short length of a prehistoric trackway constructed within the floodplain of the Thames. Two pollen profiles were obtained through peat together with four radiocarbon dates; two from the trackway itself, one from near the bottom and one from near the top of the peat. These dates indicate that the trackway was constructed in the Early Neolithic and that peat formation took place in the Neoli…
The Alluvial Geoarchaeology of the Upper River Kennet in the Avebury Landscape
Geoarchaeological research as part of the AHRC funded Living with Monuments (LwM) project investigated the upper Kennet river system across the Avebury World Heritage landscape. The results demonstrate that in the early–mid-Holocene ( c. 9500–1000 bc ) there was very low erosion of disturbed soils into the floodplain, with floodplain deposits confined to a naturally forming bedload fluvial deposit aggrading in a shallow channel of inter-linked de…
Dorstone Hill
Studies of early fourth-millennium BC Britain have typically focused on the Early Neolithic sites of Wessex and Orkney; what can the investigation of sites located in areas beyond these core regions add? The authors report on excavations (2011-2019) at Dorstone Hill in Herefordshire, which have revealed a remarkable complex of Early Neolithic monuments: three long barrows constructed on the footprints of three timber buildings that had been delib…
The social organisation of metalworking in southern England during the Beaker period and Bronze Age
This paper attempts to consider the social dimensions of metalworking during the Beaker period and Bronze Age in southern England. However, any attempt to discuss the social context of metalworking in these periods, i.e. who was working metals and where these activities occurred, is confronted with an extremely low evidence base of excavated archaeological sites where metalworking is known to have taken place. This lack of data and subsequent und…
Holding on to the past
Late Bronze Age Pottery Production
Excavations at Tinney's Lane, Sherborne in 2002 uncovered extensive evidence for Late Bronze Age settlement and pottery production, dating from a short time period probably within the 12th or 11th century cal bc . Well-preserved deposits of burnt stone, broken vessels, and burnt sherds, together with resulting debris redeposited in associated pits, were accompanied by a series of post-hole structures interpreted as round-houses and four-post sett…
The Absent Angel in Ficino's Philosophy
Ficino's Lecture on the Good
Diogenes Laertius has Plato reading the Phaedo and Lysis aloud to his students, but the only true lecture or series of lectures attributed to him by ancient sources was entitled On the Good, Aristotle's disciple the musical theorist Aristoxenus records that Aristotle attended the Lecture or Lectures (I shall henceforth refer to it in the singular); and Simplicius, writing in the sixth century A.D., notes first that the Lecture was also attended b…
First Images of America
Journal Article First Images of America: The Impact of the New World on the Old. Ed. by Fredi Chiappelli, Michael J. B. Allen, and Robert L. Benson. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. Vol. I: xxii + 515 pp. Illustrations and notes. Vol. II: xviii + 442 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and indexes. $75.00/set.) Get access Alden T. Vaughan Alden T. Vaughan Columbia University Search for other works by this…
Marsilio Ficino
Lessico Greco-Latino
Marsilio Ficino. Lessico Greco-Latino: Laur. Ashb. 1439. Ed. Rosario Pintaudi. (Lexica Humanistica, 1.) Rome: Ateneo & Bizzarri, 1977. 4 pls. + xxxi + 185 pp. L. 8,000. - The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, Vol. 2. Tr. Members of the Language Department, London School of Economic Science. London: Shepheard-Walwyn Ltd., 1978. xxi + 121 pp. £6.50. - Volume 32 Issue 4
Renaissance Thought and Its Sources
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Marsilio Ficino
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Astrology in the Renaissance
Eugenio Garin. Astrology in the Renaissance: The Zodiac of Life. Tr. Carolyn Jackson and June Allen, the translation being revised in conjunction with the author by Clare Robertson. London-Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. xiv + 145 pp. $19.50. - Volume 36 Issue 4
Marsilio Ficino on Plato, the Neoplatonists and the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity
We are accustomed to thinking of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) as the great Renaissance champion of Plato from a Christian point of view and the leader of those who wished to effect an accommodation between Platonism (or more accurately Neoplatonism) and Christianity, as the most distinguished of Plato's several Medicean apologists. Many texts lend credibility to this interpretation of Ficino's goals, and it is essentially correct. However, it is i…
Commentary on a Canzone of Benivieni
The Platonism of Marsilio Ficino
Measures of Wisdom
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The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy
Charles B. Schmitt, general editor, with Quentin Skinner and Eckhard Kessler, editors, and Jill Kraye, associate editor, The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xiii + 968 pp. $79.50. - Volume 42 Issue 3
Three Books on Life
Marsilio Ficino. Three Books on Life. Ed. and tr. Carol V. Kaske and John R. Clark. Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. State University of New York at Binghamton, 1989. xiv + 507 pp. $32. - The Letters of Marsilio Ficino. Volume 4 (Liber V). Tr. Members of the Language Department of the School of Economic Science. London. London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1988. xxiii + 184 pp. £13.95. - Volume 43 Issue 4
Western Rivermen, 1763-1861
Journal Article Western Rivermen, 1763–1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse. By Michael Allen. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. xvi + 261 pp. $25.00.) Get access Timothy R. Mahoney Timothy R. Mahoney University of Nebraska, Lincoln Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Page 1053, https://doi.org…
Icastes
Icastes
The Mistress-Knowledge
M.J. Doherty. The Mistress-Knowledge: Sir Philip Sidney's “Defence of Poesie” and Literary Architectonics in the English Renaissance. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1991. xxxi + 372 pp. $34.95. - Volume 46 Issue 4
Fredi Chiappelli
Food for the Living
The analysis of Bronze Age barrow sites excavated as long ago as 25 years can provide information on more significant and wide ranging topics than basic funerary rites. At Buckskin no primary burial rite was recorded nor any high status artefacts found. The analysis, of stored soil samples and animal bones however, produced evidence for ceremonial activity and feasting prior to the construction of the barrow mound. This encourages discussion on b…
Prophetic Rome in the High Renaissance Period
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Howard's Way—A Farewell to Freedom
Rape is now an offence which may be committed against a woman
Nuptial Arithmetic. Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic
An Early Prehistoric Shaft on Cranborne Chase
Continuing field work on Cranborne Chase has examined a unique shaft in Fir Tree Field, Down Farm in the parish of Gussage St Michael. Although shafts are known in prehistoric contexts elsewhere in England in the form of Neolithic flint mines, ritual shafts and even Bronze Age wells (Wilsford), the shaft reported here is particularly early and remains, at present, unexplained. Excavation and augering has revealed a shaft over 25 m deep containing…
The Journey to Wisdom
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