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Roland Steinacher deposited Richard Heuberger (1884 – 1968). Mediävist und Althistoriker in Innsbruck on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
In der Reihe der in Innsbruck tatigen oder aus Innsbruck stammenden Historiker der ersten Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts hat Richard Heuberger seinen festen Platz, auch wenn er bis auf wenige Eintrage in den einschlagigen Tiroler und biografischen Lexika auf kein nennenswertes „Nachleben“ zuruckblicken kann1. Allerdings gilt das nicht nur fur ihn…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Wiener Anmerkungen zu ethnischen Bezeichnungen als Kategorien der römischen und europäischen Geschichte on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
Zusammenfassung: Aus der schriftlichen Überlieferung der antiken Ethnographie kennen wir ethnische Bezeichnungen oder Gentilnamen, deren Bedeutungen und Bedeutungskontinuitäten oft nur schwer zu fassen sind. In den Peripherieräumen des Imperiums agierten gentes bzw. ἔθνη. Die römische und griechische Literatur bietet diesbezüglich aber keine…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Gruppen und Identitäten. Gedanken zur Bezeichnung „vandalisch“ on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
Zwischen dem 5. und der Mitte des 6. Jahrhunderts bestand das Regnum der Vandalen und Alanen wie eine Reihe berberischer Territorien im römischen Nordafrika, welches sich in der althistorischen, mediävistischen und archäologischen Forschung zusehends als Testfall für ein besseres Verständnis der Umgestaltung der römischen Welt in Spätantike und Fr…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Rex Vandalorum – The Debates on Wends and Vandals in Swedish Humanism as an Indicator for Early Modern Patterns of Ethnic Perception in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoFor more than four hundred years, up to the accession of the present king Carl XVI Gustaf in 1973, did the Swedish monarchs hold the title “King of the Wends“. The first evidence of this claim dates from the reign of Gustav I Vasa (1523-1560), who adopted the title Sveriges, Göthes och Wendes Konung in official sources around the year 1540. In L…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Rex Vandalorum – The Debates on Wends and Vandals in Swedish Humanism as an Indicator for Early Modern Patterns of Ethnic Perception in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoFor more than four hundred years, up to the accession of the present king Carl XVI Gustaf in 1973, did the Swedish monarchs hold the title “King of the Wends“. The first evidence of this claim dates from the reign of Gustav I Vasa (1523-1560), who adopted the title Sveriges, Göthes och Wendes Konung in official sources around the year 1540. In L…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Rex Vandalorum – The Debates on Wends and Vandals in Swedish Humanism as an Indicator for Early Modern Patterns of Ethnic Perception in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoFor more than four hundred years, up to the accession of the present king Carl XVI Gustaf in 1973, did the Swedish monarchs hold the title “King of the Wends“. The first evidence of this claim dates from the reign of Gustav I Vasa (1523-1560), who adopted the title Sveriges, Göthes och Wendes Konung in official sources around the year 1540. In L…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Migrations and Conquest: Easy Pictures for Complicated Backgrounds in Ancient and Medieval Structures in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoWe must, first of all, ask what a barbarian is or could have been in our sources. There were different kinds of barbarians, based upon the Roman and Greek ethnographic tradition and view of geography. Greek writers defined identities of human societies in the known world and bequeathed ethnonyms. Since the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E., these…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Migrations and Conquest: Easy Pictures for Complicated Backgrounds in Ancient and Medieval Structures in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoWe must, first of all, ask what a barbarian is or could have been in our sources. There were different kinds of barbarians, based upon the Roman and Greek ethnographic tradition and view of geography. Greek writers defined identities of human societies in the known world and bequeathed ethnonyms. Since the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E., these…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Migrations and Conquest: Easy Pictures for Complicated Backgrounds in Ancient and Medieval Structures in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoWe must, first of all, ask what a barbarian is or could have been in our sources. There were different kinds of barbarians, based upon the Roman and Greek ethnographic tradition and view of geography. Greek writers defined identities of human societies in the known world and bequeathed ethnonyms. Since the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E., these…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited The So-called Laterculus Regum Vandalorum et Alanorum: A Sixth-century African Addition to Prosper Tiro’s Chronicle? in the group
Roman Frontier Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay will show, however, that the text is not linked to diplomas, but belonged to an African version of Prosper’s chronicle. I will propose a new edition, which will put the text back in its original context. Rather than looking for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ texts according to 19th-century categories, I will try to analyze the specific character…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited The So-called Laterculus Regum Vandalorum et Alanorum: A Sixth-century African Addition to Prosper Tiro’s Chronicle? in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay will show, however, that the text is not linked to diplomas, but belonged to an African version of Prosper’s chronicle. I will propose a new edition, which will put the text back in its original context. Rather than looking for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ texts according to 19th-century categories, I will try to analyze the specific character…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited The So-called Laterculus Regum Vandalorum et Alanorum: A Sixth-century African Addition to Prosper Tiro’s Chronicle? in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay will show, however, that the text is not linked to diplomas, but belonged to an African version of Prosper’s chronicle. I will propose a new edition, which will put the text back in its original context. Rather than looking for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ texts according to 19th-century categories, I will try to analyze the specific character…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited The So-called Laterculus Regum Vandalorum et Alanorum: A Sixth-century African Addition to Prosper Tiro’s Chronicle? in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay will show, however, that the text is not linked to diplomas, but belonged to an African version of Prosper’s chronicle. I will propose a new edition, which will put the text back in its original context. Rather than looking for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ texts according to 19th-century categories, I will try to analyze the specific character…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited The So-called Laterculus Regum Vandalorum et Alanorum: A Sixth-century African Addition to Prosper Tiro’s Chronicle? in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay will show, however, that the text is not linked to diplomas, but belonged to an African version of Prosper’s chronicle. I will propose a new edition, which will put the text back in its original context. Rather than looking for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ texts according to 19th-century categories, I will try to analyze the specific character…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Rex Vandalorum – The Debates on Wends and Vandals in Swedish Humanism as an Indicator for Early Modern Patterns of Ethnic Perception on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
For more than four hundred years, up to the accession of the present king Carl XVI Gustaf in 1973, did the Swedish monarchs hold the title “King of the Wends“. The first evidence of this claim dates from the reign of Gustav I Vasa (1523-1560), who adopted the title Sveriges, Göthes och Wendes Konung in official sources around the year 1540. In L…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Migrations and Conquest: Easy Pictures for Complicated Backgrounds in Ancient and Medieval Structures on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
We must, first of all, ask what a barbarian is or could have been in our sources. There were different kinds of barbarians, based upon the Roman and Greek ethnographic tradition and view of geography. Greek writers defined identities of human societies in the known world and bequeathed ethnonyms. Since the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E., these…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited The So-called Laterculus Regum Vandalorum et Alanorum: A Sixth-century African Addition to Prosper Tiro’s Chronicle? on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
This essay will show, however, that the text is not linked to diplomas, but belonged to an African version of Prosper’s chronicle. I will propose a new edition, which will put the text back in its original context. Rather than looking for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ texts according to 19th-century categories, I will try to analyze the specific character…[Read more]
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Ricky Broome's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
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Charles West deposited ‘Dissonance of Speech, Consonance of Meaning’: The 862 Council of Aachen and the Transmission of Carolingian Conciliar Records on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
One of the characteristics of Francia under Carolingian rule was an increase both in church conciliar activity and in the written records for this activity. This chapter examines the manuscript transmission of the records of one particular council, that which met in Aachen in 862 to discuss King Lothar II’s marriage. It assesses its the i…[Read more]
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Christian Cooijmans deposited The Controlled Decline of Viking-Ruled Dorestad on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
The emporium of Dorestad rose to prominence as a primary hub for goods coming down from the Rhenish heartlands during the eighth and early ninth centuries. Enticed by its growing wealth and prestige, Viking raiders sacked the settlement multiple times during the 830s and subsequent decades before politically attaching themselves to the rulers of…[Read more]
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