David Espinosa Espinosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 4045876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Espinosa Espinosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Espinosa |
| FAMILY NAME | Espinosa |
| SIGNATURE | ESPINOSA D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2337-9047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Archaeology of the Sky in Gaul in the Augustan Period
Ancient Gaul was transformed during the reign of Augustus (r. 31 BC–14 AD) through a major programme of city building. The new Roman cities were constructed according to topographic, health and ritual considerations, and we hypothesise that their orientations also reflect distinct celestial conceptions held by the Gauls and by the Roman emperor Augustus. Our study of the orientation of 60 cities verifies the existence of coherent patterns, and di…
The Winter Solstice as a Roman Cultural Fingerprint from the Mythical Origins of Rome to Augustus
The winter solstice shaped Rome and its landscape from the ancestral cult of Saturnus as primordial god of the Roman territory before the city’s founding to its use by Augustus as one of the signs of his multiple celestial and solar connections. The important feasts around this date are well known and, in this paper, we propose to demonstrate how some significant public monuments, possibly from the origins of Rome and certainly from during August…
Epigraphy in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges in the Recording, Analysis and Dissemination of Inscriptions
Exploring the landscape dimension of the early medieval churches. A case study from A Mariña region (north-west Spain)
Despite the long tradition of studies on early medieval churches, little is still known about the reasons behind the selection of specific places for building churches between the fifth to tenth centuries a.d. Thanks to some rich historical documents, the region of A Mariña (Galicia, north-west Iberia) represents an exceptional case study in order to analyse the spatial logic behind the creation of the early medieval ecclesiastical landscapes. Th…
The Question of the Oppida Veteris Latii in Pliny the Elder's Natvralis Historia
This article attempts to provide a plausible explanation of a series of expressions used by Pliny the Elder to designate a significant number of communities in Hispania: [oppida] Latio antiquitus donata , [oppida] Latinorum ueterum , oppidani Latii ueteris , [oppida] Latii antiqui and oppida ueteris Latii (Plin. HN 3.7, 3.18, 3.24, 3.25, 4.117). These phrases, commonly explained from a chronological or typological viewpoint, encompass fifty Augus…
Tailoring 3D modelling techniques for epigraphic texts restitution. Case studies in deteriorated roman inscriptions
Back to basics: A non-photorealistic rendering method for the analysis of texts from 3D Roman inscriptions
This paper presents the results of a non-photorealistic rendering approach to analysing Roman inscriptions, which uses line drawings to highlight the text of two epigraphs from Galicia in north-west Spain
Del fuego sagrado a la acción cívica: Los católicos frente al estado en Michoacán (1920-1940)
Book Review| August 01 2018 Del fuego sagrado a la acción cívica: Los católicos frente al estado en Michoacán (1920–1940) Del fuego sagrado a la acción cívica: Los católicos frente al estado en Michoacán (1920–1940). By Guerra Manzo, Enrique. Mexico City: Editorial Itaca, 2015. Map. Notes. Bibliography. 344 pp. Paper, Mex$300.00. David Espinosa David Espinosa Rhode Island College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic…
A. d. viiii Kalendas Octobres, dies natalis Augusti. Some Considerations on the Astronomical Orientation of Roman Cologne and the Imperial Cult
A key factor in planning and orienting towns in the Roman world, and in particular in Augustan towns, was cosmology. The application of cosmological criteria in these towns, associated with specific political and religious principles of the principate of Augustus, has been already identified in Italia, Gallia, and Hispania. In this article we examine the orientation of the Roman town of Ara Ubiorum (present day Cologne) that could be related with…
Considerations regarding the role of the "oppida veteris Latii" as ignition sources of the cultural and political romanization of Hispanian communities during the Republican period
A la luz de las recientes publicaciones sobre la probable existencia de un amplio programa de colonización latina en Hispania durante la República romana, el objetivo del presente trabajo es examinar dos comunidades como Salduie y Contrebia Belaisca que, pese a no disfrutar de un estatuto jurídico‐administrativo romano en época republicana, presentan instituciones, formas y productos culturales típicos de un horizonte privilegiado, circunstancia …
Student Politics, National Politics: Mexico’s National Student Union, 1926–1943
In 1926 students enrolled in Mexico City’s exclusive Catholic preparatory schools faced a crisis that threatened to ruin their academic careers. They were in a serious quandary because officials at the government-supported National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) were placing what were viewed as unfair obstacles to their plans of matriculating into the university, thereby threatening the aspirations that these students and their parents ha…
Restoring Christian Social Order”: The Mexican Catholic Youth Association (1913-1932)
[our goal] is nothing less that the coordination of the living forces of Mexican Catholic youth for the purpose of restoring Christian social order in Mexico ... (A.C.J.M.’s “General Statutes”) The Mexican Catholic Youth Association emerged during the Mexican Revolution dedicated to the goal of creating lay activists with a Catholic vision for society. The history of this Jesuit organization provides insights into Church-State relations from the …
Restoring Christian Social Order”: The Mexican Catholic Youth Association (1913-1932)
[our goal] is nothing less that the coordination of the living forces of Mexican Catholic youth for the purpose of restoring Christian social order in Mexico ... (A.C.J.M.’s “General Statutes”) The Mexican Catholic Youth Association emerged during the Mexican Revolution dedicated to the goal of creating lay activists with a Catholic vision for society. The history of this Jesuit organization provides insights into Church-State relations from the …
Tailoring 3D modelling techniques for epigraphic texts restitution. Case studies in deteriorated roman inscriptions
The Winter Solstice as a Roman Cultural Fingerprint from the Mythical Origins of Rome to Augustus
The winter solstice shaped Rome and its landscape from the ancestral cult of Saturnus as primordial god of the Roman territory before the city’s founding to its use by Augustus as one of the signs of his multiple celestial and solar connections. The important feasts around this date are well known and, in this paper, we propose to demonstrate how some significant public monuments, possibly from the origins of Rome and certainly from during August…
The Question of the Oppida Veteris Latii in Pliny the Elder's Natvralis Historia
This article attempts to provide a plausible explanation of a series of expressions used by Pliny the Elder to designate a significant number of communities in Hispania: [oppida] Latio antiquitus donata , [oppida] Latinorum ueterum , oppidani Latii ueteris , [oppida] Latii antiqui and oppida ueteris Latii (Plin. HN 3.7, 3.18, 3.24, 3.25, 4.117). These phrases, commonly explained from a chronological or typological viewpoint, encompass fifty Augus…
Restoring Christian Social Order”: The Mexican Catholic Youth Association (1913-1932)
[our goal] is nothing less that the coordination of the living forces of Mexican Catholic youth for the purpose of restoring Christian social order in Mexico ... (A.C.J.M.’s “General Statutes”) The Mexican Catholic Youth Association emerged during the Mexican Revolution dedicated to the goal of creating lay activists with a Catholic vision for society. The history of this Jesuit organization provides insights into Church-State relations from the …
Student Politics, National Politics: Mexico’s National Student Union, 1926–1943
In 1926 students enrolled in Mexico City’s exclusive Catholic preparatory schools faced a crisis that threatened to ruin their academic careers. They were in a serious quandary because officials at the government-supported National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) were placing what were viewed as unfair obstacles to their plans of matriculating into the university, thereby threatening the aspirations that these students and their parents ha…
Considerations regarding the role of the "oppida veteris Latii" as ignition sources of the cultural and political romanization of Hispanian communities during the Republican period
A la luz de las recientes publicaciones sobre la probable existencia de un amplio programa de colonización latina en Hispania durante la República romana, el objetivo del presente trabajo es examinar dos comunidades como Salduie y Contrebia Belaisca que, pese a no disfrutar de un estatuto jurídico‐administrativo romano en época republicana, presentan instituciones, formas y productos culturales típicos de un horizonte privilegiado, circunstancia …
A. d. viiii Kalendas Octobres, dies natalis Augusti. Some Considerations on the Astronomical Orientation of Roman Cologne and the Imperial Cult
A key factor in planning and orienting towns in the Roman world, and in particular in Augustan towns, was cosmology. The application of cosmological criteria in these towns, associated with specific political and religious principles of the principate of Augustus, has been already identified in Italia, Gallia, and Hispania. In this article we examine the orientation of the Roman town of Ara Ubiorum (present day Cologne) that could be related with…
The Question of the Oppida Veteris Latii in Pliny the Elder's Natvralis Historia
This article attempts to provide a plausible explanation of a series of expressions used by Pliny the Elder to designate a significant number of communities in Hispania: [oppida] Latio antiquitus donata , [oppida] Latinorum ueterum , oppidani Latii ueteris , [oppida] Latii antiqui and oppida ueteris Latii (Plin. HN 3.7, 3.18, 3.24, 3.25, 4.117). These phrases, commonly explained from a chronological or typological viewpoint, encompass fifty Augus…
Tailoring 3D modelling techniques for epigraphic texts restitution. Case studies in deteriorated roman inscriptions
Back to basics: A non-photorealistic rendering method for the analysis of texts from 3D Roman inscriptions
This paper presents the results of a non-photorealistic rendering approach to analysing Roman inscriptions, which uses line drawings to highlight the text of two epigraphs from Galicia in north-west Spain
Del fuego sagrado a la acción cívica: Los católicos frente al estado en Michoacán (1920-1940)
Book Review| August 01 2018 Del fuego sagrado a la acción cívica: Los católicos frente al estado en Michoacán (1920–1940) Del fuego sagrado a la acción cívica: Los católicos frente al estado en Michoacán (1920–1940). By Guerra Manzo, Enrique. Mexico City: Editorial Itaca, 2015. Map. Notes. Bibliography. 344 pp. Paper, Mex$300.00. David Espinosa David Espinosa Rhode Island College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic…
Exploring the landscape dimension of the early medieval churches. A case study from A Mariña region (north-west Spain)
Despite the long tradition of studies on early medieval churches, little is still known about the reasons behind the selection of specific places for building churches between the fifth to tenth centuries a.d. Thanks to some rich historical documents, the region of A Mariña (Galicia, north-west Iberia) represents an exceptional case study in order to analyse the spatial logic behind the creation of the early medieval ecclesiastical landscapes. Th…
Epigraphy in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges in the Recording, Analysis and Dissemination of Inscriptions
The Winter Solstice as a Roman Cultural Fingerprint from the Mythical Origins of Rome to Augustus
The winter solstice shaped Rome and its landscape from the ancestral cult of Saturnus as primordial god of the Roman territory before the city’s founding to its use by Augustus as one of the signs of his multiple celestial and solar connections. The important feasts around this date are well known and, in this paper, we propose to demonstrate how some significant public monuments, possibly from the origins of Rome and certainly from during August…
An Archaeology of the Sky in Gaul in the Augustan Period
Ancient Gaul was transformed during the reign of Augustus (r. 31 BC–14 AD) through a major programme of city building. The new Roman cities were constructed according to topographic, health and ritual considerations, and we hypothesise that their orientations also reflect distinct celestial conceptions held by the Gauls and by the Roman emperor Augustus. Our study of the orientation of 60 cities verifies the existence of coherent patterns, and di…
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