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Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300-900
Graphic Signs Of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages offers a cultural history of the graphic monogrammatic tools from antiquity to the Middle Ages. It examines the sign of the cross, christograms, monograms, and other similar devices, and how they were used during a time of great socio-political and religious change.
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.
The Power of Cities
The Power of Cities focuses on Iberian cities during the lengthy transition from the late Roman to the early modern period, with a particular interest in the change from early Christianity to the Islamic period, and on to the restoration of Christianity. Drawing on case studies from cities such as Toledo, Cordoba, and Seville, it collects for the first time recent research in urban studies using both archaeological and historical sources. Against the common portrayal of these cities characterized by discontinuities due to decadence, decline and invasions, it is instead continuity – that is, a gradual transformation – which emerges as the defining characteristic. The volume argues for a fresh interpretation of Iberian cities across this period, seen as a continuum of structural changes across time, and proposes a new history of the Iberian Peninsula, written from the perspective of the cities. Contributors are Javier Arce, María Asenjo González, Antonio Irigoyen López, Alberto León Muñoz, Matthias Maser, Sabine Panzram, Gisela Ripoll, Torsten dos Santos Arnold, Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Fernando Valdés Fernández, and Klaus Weber.
Local Societies and Peasantry Agencies in Medieval Iberia
Despite the significant attention medieval scholarship has devoted to the study of peasant societies, these groups have traditionally been depicted as passive and homogeneous, merely able of resisting pressures from the state or powerful individuals. However, in recent years, the availability of new records, the widespread adoption of microhistorical analyses, and the renewal of conceptual frameworks have enabled scholars to undertake more detailed and nuanced investigations. This collective volume aims to explore the political, economic, and social practices of Iberian medieval peasant societies. A key finding of this multivocal analysis is the revelation of the relative subalternity of medieval ruling groups and the constraints on peasant actions across various geographical and chronological contexts.
The Long Sixth Century in Eastern Europe
In The Long Sixth Century in Eastern Europe, Florin Curta offers a social and economic history of East Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe during the 6th and 7th centuries. It challenges the current model of transition from Antiquity to the early Middle Ages on the basis of an interpretation of the written sources, but especially of an enormous amount of archaeological evidence accumulated in the last 50 years or so. It deals with societies in close contact with the Roman world, as well with those located very far from it. It addresses questions of property, subsistence, crafts, trade, and social change.
The Art of the Eurasian Steppe
The Art of the Eurasian Steppe is a contextual analysis which traces the stylistic transformation of artefacts depicting animals from various cultures of the Eurasian steppe, and investigates its possible influence on Central and Northern European art. A wide range of individual cultures are "visited" and their historic, cultural, and geographic specifics are explored. The survey in this book is based on a chronological structure, including an East-West geographic direction. This accommodates to position described artefacts of certain styles within time periods, cultures, and locations. Most of the existing literature related to cultures of the Eurasian steppe is specialised on one particula...
Sepolture di prestigio nel bacino mediterraneo (secoli IV-IX). Definizione, immagini, utilizzo
Il periodo compreso tra la tarda Antichità e l’alto Medioevo fu segnato da profonde trasformazioni che investirono ogni ambito della sfera sociale e culturale, ivi compresa quella funeraria. La diffusione del cristianesimo e l’arrivo di nuovi popoli sulla scena europea e mediterranea determinarono l’affermazione di inedite forme di autorappresentazione dei defunti e dei loro gruppi familiari, prime tra tutte l’uso della deposizione ad sanctos e delle sepolture con ricco corredo. A quasi quarant’anni dallo storico incontro di Créteil L’inhumation privilégiée du IVe au VIIIe siècle en Occident, il convegno di Pella si è voluto proporre come una rinnovata occasione di dibattito sugli usi sepolcrali delle popolazioni del mondo tardo e postromano, cercando di offrire una visione il più ampia possibile, in senso geografico e cronologico, dei fenomeni che investirono la sfera funeraria tra il IV e il IX secolo. I testi dei contributi e dei poster raccolti in questi due volumi intendono, dunque, apportare nuovi spunti di riflessione riguardo a uno dei temi più vivacemente dibattuti dall’archeologia e dalla storiografia degli ultimi anni.
The European Countryside during the Migration Period
Research on late antique and early medieval migrations has long acknowledged the importance of interdisciplinarity. The field is constantly nourished by new archaeological discoveries that allow for increasingly refined pictures of socio-economic development. Yet the perspectives adopted by historians and archaeologists are frequently different, and so are their conclusions. Diverging views exist in respect to varying geographical areas and scholarly traditions too. This volume brings together history and archaeology to address the impact of the inflow and outflow of migrations on the rural landscape, the creation of new settlement patterns, and the role of migrations and mobility in transforming society and economy. Such themes are often investigated under a regional or macro-regional viewpoint, resulting in too fragmented an understanding of a widespread phenomenon. Spanning Eastern and Western Europe, the book takes steps toward an integrated picture of territories normally investigated as separate entities, and critically establishes grounds for new comparisons and models on late antique and early medieval transformations.
Archeologia Medievale, XLVII, 2020
Il volume XLVII (2020) è suddiviso, come di consueto, in tre sezioni più quella di recensioni/segnalazioni. La sezione saggi contiene una serie di contributi che vanno da una riflessione sul ruolo dell’archeologia medievale nelle riviste di divulgazione scientifica alla ricostruzione di un importante contesto funerario della prima età carolingia, da una valutazione critica della presenza delle monete nei depositi archeologici all’interno di chiese, alla ricostruzione dell’attività tessile della Roma medievale o all’uso dell’archeobotanica per ricostruire la biografia di specie vegetali domestiche. Completano il volume la serie degli articoli nella sezione “Notizie scavi e lav...
Romania Gothica IV – Barbares dans la ville de l’Antiquité tardive. Présences et absences dans les espaces publics et privés
Actes du Congrès International, Museu d’Història de Catalunya (Barcelone, 12-13 novembre 2010) En 2010, le 1600e anniversaire de l’élection d’Athaulf comme roi des Wisigoths a été célébré. Les vicissitudes de ce personnage historique et de son règne éphémère (410-415 ap. J.-C.) sont un exemple éloquent d’une période caractérisée par un changement rapide de la géographie du pouvoir et par une mobilité extraordinaire des personnes, des objets et des idées dans un contexte de multiculturalisme croissant. Cette éphéméride constitue donc une invitation aux historiens, philologues, archéologues et anthropologues à explorer les multiples matérialisations des échang...
