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Ancient Germanic Warriors
Fully illustrated with over fifty photographs, this book describes the ancient fighting styles and mythical self-images of Germanic warriors from 200 BC - AD 1000 and presents vivid and fascinating survey that adds a colourful new dimension to our understanding of the history of Europe.
Chlodwig I.
Seit dem 3.Jahrhundert brandeten – ausgelöst durch kriegerische Entwicklungen im Osten – immer wieder Wellen herandrängender Völker gegen die Grenzen des Imperium Romanum. Die Versuche der römischen Kaiser, die Fremden militärisch abzuwehren, scheiterten. Und auch dem Bemühen der römischen Verwaltung, die Entwicklung wenigstens zu steuern und dabei große Verbände von Goten, Franken und anderen Völkern ins Reich zu integrieren, ja, sie sich sogar dienstbar zu machen, war nur zeitweilig und letztlich um den Preis der eigenen Herrschaft Erfolg beschieden. Aber wenn auch die Kraft der neuen Gewaltgemeinschaften ausgereicht hatte, das weströmische Reich zum Einsturz zu bringen, war...
A Companion to Boniface
The eighth-century English missionary and church reformer Boniface was a highly influential figure in early medieval Europe. His career in what is now Germany, France, and the Netherlands is attested in an exceptional number of textual sources: a correspondence of 150 letters, Latin poetry, church council records, and other documents. Numerous saints’ lives and modern devotional materials further reveal how he was and is remembered by the religious communities that claim him as a foundational figure. This volume comprises the latest scholarship on Boniface and his fellow missionaries, examining the written materials associated with Boniface, his impacts on the regions of Europe where he worked (Hessia, Thuringia, Bavaria, Frisia, and Francia), and the development of his cult in the Middle Ages and today. Contributors: Michel Aaij, John-Henry Clay, Michael Glatthaar, Shannon Godlove, Leanne Good, Petra Kehl, Felice Lifshitz, Rob Meens, Michael Edward Moore, Marco Mostert, James Palmer, Janneke Raaijmakers, Rudolf Schieffer, Emily Thornbury, Siegfried Weichlein, and Barbara Yorke.
Prosopography Approaches and Applications
This collection of 29 essays, ranging from ancient to modern history and including Arabic-Islamic prosopography, covers all aspects of prosopography as currently practised.
Tyrants Writing Poetry
As conventional understanding would have it, the sometimes brutal business of governing can only be carried out at the price of distance from art, while poetic beauty best fl ourishes at a distance from actions executed at the pole of power. Dramatically contradicting this idea is the fact that violent rulers are often the greatest friends of art, and indeed draw attention to themselves as artists. Why do tyrants of all people often have a particularly poetic vein? Where do terror and fi ction meet? The cultural history of totalitarian regimes is unwrapped in ten case studies, in a comparative perspective. The book focuses on the phenomenon that many of the great despots in history were them...
The Land Between
"This is a history of a space - a space between the Panonian plain in the East and the most northernmost bay in the Adriatic in the West, from the eastern Alps in the North and the Dinaridic mountain area in the South. It is also a history of all the different people who lived in this area. The authors show that the Slavs did not settle an empty space and simply replace the Celto-Roman inhabitants of earlier times; they are, on the contrary, presented as the result of reciprocal acculturation. The authors show that the Slovenes made more than two important appearances throughout the entire feudal era; the same holds for later periods, especially for the twentieth century. This book offers a concise and complete history of an area that finally became an integral part of Central Europe and the Balkans."--Pub. desc.
Das Römerreich und seine Germanen
Wer waren die Germanen? Was war die Völkerwanderung? Was ist die europäische Kontinuität. Die Geschichte des Römerreichs und seiner Germanen beendete die Völkerwanderung. Der römische Staat gab das Gewaltmonopol auf. Die Steuereinhebung wurde privatisiert. Das allgemeine justinianische Kaiserrecht galt zwar im byzantinischen Rom und Ravenna, aber nicht mehr im langobardischen Pavia und Mailand, noch weniger an Rhein und Donau und auf den britischen Inseln. Die Städte schrumpften, die Provinzialisierung nahm zu. Herwig Wolfram beschreibt in diesem Buch die Entstehung, die Dauer und die Wirkungsgeschichte der germanischen Königreiche, die das Erbe Roms antraten. Die Geschichte dieser Herrschaftsbildungen, ihr vermeintlicher Glanz und ihr tragischer Untergang, den bloß das Frankenreich vermeiden konnte, erregen bis heute unser Interesse. Der Autor führt in Herkunft und Mythen, Leben und Wirken der Germanen ein, porträtiert ihre Stämme und erzählt die Geschichte der »Völkerwanderung". Eine grundlegende und kenntnisreiche Darstellung der Welt der Germanen, die zu einem tieferen Verständnis dieser Welt beiträgt.
The Civilian Legacy of the Roman Army
The Roman army represented an important social and organizational reference model for the Romano-Barbarian societies, which progressively replaced the Western Empire in the transition from Late Antiquity to Early Middle Ages. The great flexibility of the decision-making and organizational solutions used by the Roman army allowed the ‘new lords’ to readapt them and thus maintain power in early medieval Europe for a long time. From a perspective ranging from political, social and economic history to law, anthropology, and linguistic, this book demonstrates how interesting and fruitful the investigation of this specific cultural imprint can be in order to gain a better understanding of the origins of the civilization that arouse after the fall of the Roman world. Contributors are Francesco Borri, Fabio Botta, Francesco Castagnino, Stefan Esders, Carla Falluomin, Stefano Gasparri, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Soazick Kerneis, Luca Loschiavo, Valerio Marotta, Esperanza Osaba, Walter Pohl, Jean-Pierre Poly, Pierfrancesco Porena, Iolanda Ruggiero, Andrea Trisciuoglio, Andrea A. Verardi, and Ian Wood.
Evolution of the Synagogue
Studies about rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity that investigate the literary and archaeological evidence by which the evolution of the synagogue can be traced.
