Melus, rendered “Meles” in Greek sources, first appears in 1009 when he and a relative named Dattus rebelled against the east Roman governor-general, the katepano, taking Bari, Ascoli and Troia, before being defeated by a new katepano in 1011 and fleeing to the prince of Salerno. This chapter looks at the evidence for identified Armenians in eas…[Read more]

This article analyses the agency of merchant capital and taxation in processes of urbanisation. The case study is Ani, now abandoned and straddling the Turkish-Armenian border, in the long thirteenth century c.1200-1350. This global-historical conjuncture is defined by the height of the medieval Commercial Revolution and its central Eurasian…[Read more]

The transformation of the Roman World into the Middle Ages is an ever-recurring theme in (art-)historical and archaeological scholarship. While there is some interest in material translations in prehistoric archaeology,1 the visual and material transformations and translations in the archaeological record of the Middle Ages have not been in the…[Read more]

[Please note: for the EXCEL and CSV files go directly to “Zenodo” via the DOI link!] This data set is a supplement to the book “Archäologische Chronologie und historische Interpretation: Die Merowingerzeit in Süddeutschland” (De Gruyter, 2016) and comprises the archaeological data and the results of the correspondence analysis of M…[Read more]

A list of publications

Recently, Frank Siegmund said that as “new basic chronological frameworks are widely and critically discussed […] established canonical schemes have to be regarded as broadly reviewed and verified”. This could not be approved in its entirety as far as the “Süddeutschland-Chronologie” is concerned. Close ties between the archaeological and writte…[Read more]

For several decades, early medieval inhumation burials have been found in various locations in the area around Klengen. In 1999, 20 graves from a large ‘row-grave cemetery (Reihengräberfeld) between Klengen and Kirchdorf were excavated, which are now presented here. These comprise childrens’, female and male burials in equal measure. The grav…[Read more]

Any reader of scholarship on the ancient and early medieval world will be familiar with the term ‘Germanic’, which is frequently used as a linguistic category, ethnonym, or descriptive identifier for a range of forms of cultural and literary material. But is the term meaningful, useful, or legitimate? The term, frequently applied to peoples,…[Read more]