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Roland Steinacher deposited Who is the Barbarian? Considerations on the Vandal Royal Title on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
The 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 on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months ago
This 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 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
Early Medieval 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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Roland Steinacher deposited The Heruls Fragments of a History in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoSome gentes–armed social units or peoples such as the Goths, the Franks, the Burgundians or the Vandals–became an intrinsic part of European history. Others like the Heruli, the Sciri, the Gepids and the Rugians played their somewhat vague role, but disappeared from our sources without having had the opportunity to form any stable regnum on…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited The Heruls Fragments of a History in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoSome gentes–armed social units or peoples such as the Goths, the Franks, the Burgundians or the Vandals–became an intrinsic part of European history. Others like the Heruli, the Sciri, the Gepids and the Rugians played their somewhat vague role, but disappeared from our sources without having had the opportunity to form any stable regnum on…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited When not in Rome, still do as the Romans do? Africa from 146 BCE to the 7th century in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoStudying North Africa poses a variety of problems. Historical as well as archaeological research bears the burden of a colonial view on Africa’s past tending to overemphasize its Roman aspects. Berber (Numidian and Moorish) political entities together with Punic (Carthaginian) cities had a long history when Rome entered the African scene. The h…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited When not in Rome, still do as the Romans do? Africa from 146 BCE to the 7th century in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoStudying North Africa poses a variety of problems. Historical as well as archaeological research bears the burden of a colonial view on Africa’s past tending to overemphasize its Roman aspects. Berber (Numidian and Moorish) political entities together with Punic (Carthaginian) cities had a long history when Rome entered the African scene. The h…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Zur Identitätsbildung frühmittelalterlicher Gemeinschaften. Überblick über den historischen Forschungsstand on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
Seit 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 The Heruls Fragments of a History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
Some gentes–armed social units or peoples such as the Goths, the Franks, the Burgundians or the Vandals–became an intrinsic part of European history. Others like the Heruli, the Sciri, the Gepids and the Rugians played their somewhat vague role, but disappeared from our sources without having had the opportunity to form any stable regnum on…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited When not in Rome, still do as the Romans do? Africa from 146 BCE to the 7th century on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
Studying North Africa poses a variety of problems. Historical as well as archaeological research bears the burden of a colonial view on Africa’s past tending to overemphasize its Roman aspects. Berber (Numidian and Moorish) political entities together with Punic (Carthaginian) cities had a long history when Rome entered the African scene. The h…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
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Roland Steinacher deposited Von Würmern bei lebendigem Leib zerfressen…und die Läusesucht Phtheiriasis. Ein antikes Strafmotiv und seine Rezeptionsgeschichte on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
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