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A colorless Silesian footed beaker with wheel-cut and engraved decoration is described and analyzed in this article. The conical bowl is decorated on one side with a mythological scene featuring the nine Muses (all equipped with different musical instruments and dressed in costumes taken from opera seria), Apollo, Pegasus at the foot of Mt. Helicon, and aSpiegelmonogramm(mirror monogram) in a broad landscape. This scene appears above the Latin inscription “Et Mihi Pegasides doctissima Carmina dictant” (And I like the Muses to compose the most learned songs) and the date “1740.” The reverse shows an empty palmette, and the base of the bowl is faceted. The author suggests that the Latin motto allows us to conclude that the owner was a highly educated composer of opera seria or director of a musical ensemble in the year 1740. The initials in the elaborately constructed mirror monogram are “CHG.” On this basis, the author concludes that the beaker was made for Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759), the firstHofkapellmeisterat the court of Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, in Potsdam. Graun, who was considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera in his day, probably received the beaker as a gift from the court.

The 16th-century humanist Juan Maldonado in his Latin essays foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. Like Erasmus, with whom he corresponded,Maldonado advocated the use of Latin in a wide-range of activities. Maldonado’s Pastor Bonus, a lengthy open letter to a bishop, reviews in a vivid and satirical style the abuses of the churchmen in his diocese. His ludus chartarum is framed as a colloquium similar to Vives’ on the subject, entertaining while teaching a Latin terminology for card playing. His Bacchanalia, written for student actors, is a spirited play pitting the forces of Lent against those of Bacchus, as in the Libro de buen amor. These works have been edited and translated into English by Warren Smith and Clark Colahan for the first time, with illustrations of scenes from each work, and of 16th-century cards, by Richard Simmons and Caleb Smith.

Cryptotermes garifunae sp. nov. (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) is described from a single colony sample collected on the coast of Honduras. This species represents the twenty-second Cryptotermes species known from the Caribbean Basin and West Indies. The C. garifunae soldier and imago are the smallest of the New World Cryptotermes. Distribution maps, constructed from 1,452 new records, are given for all 31 species of New World Cryptotermes.

This essay considers the critical neglect of Thomas Patch in terms of a failure to appreciate the sophistication and intelligence with which the artist represented himself in a variety of self-portraits embedded within his larger works. Despite their smaller, incidental appearance these self-portraits when taken together constitute a narrative of self-disclosure significantly at odds with the myth of the unknowable artist in retreat from conventional morality. In fact, as the essay argues, Patch's mea culpa is both an acknowledgment of queer otherness and a spirited defense of transgressive sexual attraction, one that goes to some trouble to dramatize (and explain) a rather unconventional intimacy between the artist and his art.

This study aims to begin to fill the relative gap in research into ecstatic practices in subcultural scenes. To this end, it focuses on two more hardcore groups of football supporters (ultras and hooligans) and two extreme music scenes (black metal and crust punk). Its research methodology relies mainly on participant observation. It considers the ecstatic states of hardcore football supporters and extreme music fans with an emphasis on key contexts, practices and meanings. The study proposes to apply a model of Dionysiac ritual to interpret all these practices and discusses them in relation to the transgression of social norms and commodification in the context of late capitalism.

1. The effect of rabbit population density on transmission of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) is a critical aspect of disease ecology for rabbit control and rabbit conservation. We examined the interaction between rabbit control and spread of RHDV and a non-pathogenic calicivirus (bCV) in Australian wild rabbit populations, and reviewed existing recommendations for control in this context. 2. Rabbits were sampled at eight pairs of sites; from rabbit populations where densities had been reduced by conventional control and from matching uncontrolled populations. Sites chosen ranged from hot, arid areas where RHDV had greatly reduced rabbit numbers to cooler, higher-rainfall areas where rabbits remained more abundant. Virus activity was implied from antibody profiles in sera of surviving rabbits. 3. Reducing population density by conventional control had a similar effect on disease transmission despite a seven-fold difference in initial density. Populations reduced by 70% or more had lower RHDV antibody prevalence in juvenile rabbits but not in adult rabbits, indicating that reducing rabbit density slowed but did not stop RHDV transmission. We found no interactions between rabbit control, RHDV and bCV that could be exploited to improve rabbit management. 4. Synthesis and applications. Delayed RHDV infection in rabbit control sites is likely to be offset by higher mortality in older rabbits, so that conventional rabbit control does not reduce the impact of RHDV on rabbit populations. Only minor changes to delay the timing of summer rabbit control programmes in cooler areas of Australia are necessary to take best advantage of RHDV-induced reduction in rabbit numbers. For conservation management of rabbits in Europe, these findings indicate that RHDV may continue to have a severe impact on rabbit populations that have been reduced to low population density, but also raise the possibility that bCVs might be introduced to rabbit populations to aid their recovery.

Umm al-Surab, located near modern-day Mafraq in northern Jordan, was the focus of a building archaeology project carried out by the University of Siena, Italy, between 2009 and 2012. This article discusses the primary results obtained from that project—in particular, the research on the church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus and another complex in the southeastern corner of the archaeological area. The methodologies adopted are explored, as well as the results anticipated from the development of this type of research: the creation of an atlas of construction techniques for the southern Hauran and the development of a non-destructive, and therefore “sustainable,” investigation methodology.

In a recent article, Joel Pust argued that direct inference based on reference properties of differing arity are incommensurable, and so direct inference cannot be used to resolve the Sleeping Beauty problem. After discussing the defects of Pust's argument, I offer reasons for thinking that direct inferences based on reference properties of differing arity are commensurable, and that we should prefer direct inferences based on logically stronger reference properties, regardless of arity.