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The Heirs of the Roman West
In this collection leading international authorities analyse the structures and economic functions of non-agrarian centres between ca. 500 and 1000 A.D. – their trade, their surrounding settlements, and the agricultural and cultural milieux. The thirty-one papers presented at an international conference held in Bad Homburg focus on recent archaeological discoveries in Central Europe (Vol.1), as well as onthose from southeastern Europe to Asia Minor (Vol. 2).
Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia
Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape itself. For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered or stalked through the same environments inhabited by their human contemporaries. Others were objects that a modern beholder would be unlikely to think of as living things, but could yet be considered to possess a vitality that rendered them potent. Still others were things half glimpsed on a dark night or seen only in the mind's eye; strange beasts that haunted dreams and visions or inhabited exoti...
United City, Divided Memories?
"Each topic is very thoroughly documented, weaving together historical information and current political debates surrounding memorial sites ... Highly valuable as a chronicle of the politics of memory. ... Recommended."---Choice, March 2009 --
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Historische Kompetenzen und Museen
Der Tagungsband 'Historische Kompetenzen und Museen' unternimmt den Versuch, die bislang überwiegend im Modus der Theoriediskussion geführte geschichtsdidaktische Auseinandersetzung mit Kompetenzen einem Praxistest zu unterziehen, und dies auf einem außerschulischen Feld der Geschichtskultur, in dem zwar auch, aber sicherlich anders historisch gelernt wird als in der Schule. Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der akademischen Geschichtsdidaktik, der Museumspädagogik und der Museen unterschiedlicher Typen vom Kunst- über das Völkerkunde- bis hin zum Technikmuseum diskutieren gemeinsam darüber, ob und inwieweit im Lernort Museum ein Auf- und Ausbau historischer Kompetenzen erfolgt. Die Rahmen...
