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Carol Atack deposited The History of Athenian Democracy, Now in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoReview article from History of Political Thought covering books on the history of Athenian democracy and its relevance to politics now (as of publication date in 2017)
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Ellen Muehlberger deposited The Will of Others in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoScholarly reflections on the concept of the will as it is articulated in late ancient texts have centered on the male individual and the difficulties he faces as he tries to train or direct his intentions. By contrast, in this article we seek to explore late ancient concepts and negotiations of the will by considering a cluster of ancient Jewish…[Read more]
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Natascha Mehler deposited Investigating the Norse Harbour of Igaliku (Southern Greenland) Using an Integrated System of Side-Scan Sonar and High-Resolution Reflection Seismics in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis study presents the results of a marine geophysical survey performed in the Igaliku fjord in southern Greenland in order to understand the harbour setting of the former Norse settlement Garðar (modern Igaliku). The aims of the survey were (a) to reconstruct the former coastline during the first centuries of the Norse settlement period (c.…[Read more]
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Rouco Collazo Jorge deposited Análisis arqueológico de la torre-puerta de la alcazaba de Guadix (Granada) in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoEste artículo tiene como objetivo realizar el análisis de la secuencia constructiva de la torre-puerta de la alcazaba medieval de Guadix (Granada). Para ello, se efectuó un levantamiento tridimensional de la estructura mediante fotogrametría, una lectura estratigráfica de paramentos en profundidad y una caracterización de técnicas constr…[Read more]
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Juliane Watson deposited iDAI.field 2: A Modern Approach to Distributed Fieldwork Documentation in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoAn archaeological field research database that can be used for different projects poses an advanced technical problem. It does not only have to deal with different needs of a variety of disciplines and methods like excavation and survey but also be usable for architectural or object studies. Therefore, a generic data model is required that can…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Richard Heuberger (1884 – 1968). Mediävist und Althistoriker in Innsbruck in the group
Roman Provincial Archaeology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoIn 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 in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoZusammenfassung: 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“ in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoZwischen 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, 5 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, 5 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
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 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, 5 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 Vom Ketzerkönig zum christianissimus rex. Politische Dimensionen der homöischen Christologie: Afrika im 5. und 6. Jahrhundert mit einem Ausblick nach Spanien in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoDas vandalische Afrika gilt als Musterbeispiel des „Kirchenkampfs“ zwischen homöischen Barbaren und katholischen Römern. Kronzeugen sind Victor von Vita, Fulgentius von Ruspe und Quodvultdeus von Karthago. Etwa 50 Jahre nach dem Ende der Vandalenkönige in Afrika 533 kam es in Spanien zum Ausgleich zwischen Katholiken und Homöern. Die westgot…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Who is the Barbarian? Considerations on the Vandal Royal Title in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Vandal royal title Rex Vandalorum et Alanorum is known from the reign of king Huneric (477-484) from two decrees preserved in Victor of Vita’s History of the Vandal persecution. This catholic polemic pamphlet itself derives from the eighties or nineties of the fifth century. As traditional diplomatics throughout the 19th and 20th centuries c…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Who is the Barbarian? Considerations on the Vandal Royal Title in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Vandal royal title Rex Vandalorum et Alanorum is known from the reign of king Huneric (477-484) from two decrees preserved in Victor of Vita’s History of the Vandal persecution. This catholic polemic pamphlet itself derives from the eighties or nineties of the fifth century. As traditional diplomatics throughout the 19th and 20th centuries c…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Minting in Vandal North Africa: coins of the Vandal period in the Coin Cabinet of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis paper offers a re‐examination of some problems regarding the coinage of Vandal North Africa. The coinage of this barbarian successor state is one of the first non‐imperial coinages in the Mediterranean world of the fifth and sixth centuries. Based on the fine collection in the Coin Cabinet of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, this art…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Minting in Vandal North Africa: coins of the Vandal period in the Coin Cabinet of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis paper offers a re‐examination of some problems regarding the coinage of Vandal North Africa. The coinage of this barbarian successor state is one of the first non‐imperial coinages in the Mediterranean world of the fifth and sixth centuries. Based on the fine collection in the Coin Cabinet of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, this art…[Read more]
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Matt Chalmers deposited Representations of Samaritans in Late Antique Jewish and Christian Texts in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoAbstract and introduction for PhD dissertation, defended and deposited in April 2019.
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Roland Steinacher deposited Zur Identitätsbildung frühmittelalterlicher Gemeinschaften. Überblick über den historischen Forschungsstand in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoSeit der frühen Neuzeit standen geschichtsmächtige Gruppen im Zentrum historischer Meistererzählungen. Vor allem die Umgestaltung der römischen Welt zwischen Antike und Mittelalter erklärte man durch die Wanderungen von Völkern, mit Dekadenzmodellen und konstruierten nationalen Charakteren. Meist wurde eine klare ethnische, kulturelle oder gar r…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Zur Identitätsbildung frühmittelalterlicher Gemeinschaften. Überblick über den historischen Forschungsstand in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoSeit der frühen Neuzeit standen geschichtsmächtige Gruppen im Zentrum historischer Meistererzählungen. Vor allem die Umgestaltung der römischen Welt zwischen Antike und Mittelalter erklärte man durch die Wanderungen von Völkern, mit Dekadenzmodellen und konstruierten nationalen Charakteren. Meist wurde eine klare ethnische, kulturelle oder gar r…[Read more]
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