Suchergebnisse

The idea of the town in the Byzantine Empire / John Haldon -- Byzantine cities in the seventh and eighth centuries: different sources, different histories? / W. Brandes -- ∫αAnjar and early Islamic urbanism / R. Hillenbrand -- Ideas of the town in Italy during the transition from antiquity to the middle ages / G.P. Brogiolo -- Visual images of the town in late antiquity and the early middle ages / Carlo Bertelli -- The ideology of urban burials / G. Cantino Wataghin -- L'id(c)♭e chr(c)♭tienne de la ville: quelques suggestions pour l'antiquit(c)♭ tardive et le haut moyen age / Alba Maria Orselli -- La topographie chr(c)♭tienne entre id(c)♭ologie et pragmatisme / N. Gauthier -- Paganism and Christianity in Athens and vicinity during the fourth to sixth centuries A.D. / P. Castr(c)♭n -- Re-using the architectural legacy of the past, entre id(c)♭ologie et pragmatisme / Bryan Ward-Perkins -- Conclusions / G.P. Brogiolo

The connections between preaching, politics, and society have been manifold yet varied in the period from late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. In this multi-lingual volume, these associations are studied within their historical context over twelve new contributions, addressing a wide range of geographical areas and opening up a series of sources which have previously been neglected. Special attention is paid to the cultural and geographical circumstances in which the complex relationship between political thought and preaching should be explored. These contributions reveal the circumstances and the procedures that inspire various preachers to reflect upon political topics, which are often of a sensitive nature. In this way, the powerful and the general public of believers have access to an array of political ideas, allowing opinion-making and political discussion

Ancient Greece : some general considerations /Robert Sallares --I terreni sacri nel mondo greco in et àrcaica e classica /Carmine Ampolo --Ancient Greece : some general points /Michel Austin --Seleucid state and the economy /Robert van der Spek --Hellenistic economy /Daniele Foraboschi --Ptolemaic to Roman Egypt /Dominic Rathbone --Politisches system und wirtschaftliche entwicklung in der späten römischen republik /Helmuth Schneider --Comment la res publica ne pouvait pas ne pas influer sur la vie économique /Jean Andreau --Roman state intervention? /Peter Ørsted --Roman principate /Elio Lo Cascio --Governmental roles in the economy of late antiquity /Roger Bagnall --State and aristocracy in the economic evolution of the late empire /Jairus Banaji.

Foreword and acknowledgements / Jorge López Quiroga, Michael Kazanski, Vujadin Ivaniešević -- Interpreting identity and otherness: historical and archaeological approaches. Ethnicities, entangled identities and otherness in late antique and early medieval Europe. Views for an interdisciplinary research agenda / Jorge López Quiroga, Michael Kazanski, Vujadin Ivanišević -- The archaeology of identities and alterities. Opposite perspectives for the Early Middle Ages / Sebastian Brather -- Le refus de l'Altérité dans la loi romaine du Bréviaire d'Alaric / Michel Rouche -- Barbaria, Barbaricum and the location of the Barbarus / Michael Kulikowski -- La conversion au Christianisme comme un mécanisme d'Identité et d'Altérité chez les Barbares / Bruno Dumiézil -- Did the Goths really come from Poland? Changing interpretations in changing political situations / Jörg Kleemann -- Forensic anthropology, identification and identity. How it can help the identity and otherness problematic / Luis Ríos Frutos -- Bones don't lie. Bioarchaeological identity and entangled social identities in late antique and early medieval Europe / Jorge López Quiroga -- Ethnicity, social identity, otherness and the archaeological record: case studies. Les antiquités germaniques à l'Est européen au Bas-Empire et à l'époque des Grandes Migrations: État des recherches / Michael Kazanski, Anna Mastykova -- The many identities of the barbarians in the middle Danube Region in the early middle ages / Tivadar Vida -- Social identity on the platter, clay pans in sixth to seventh century ceramic assemblages / Florin Curta -- Ethnicity on the move, new evidence from Viking winter camps / Dawn Hadley -- Otherness and identity in the Merovingian cemetery / Guy Halsall -- Archéologie Funéraire et ethnicité en Gaule à l'́poque mérovingienne (Réponse à Guy Halsall) / Michael Kazanski, Patrick Périn -- Gender, kinship and social identity in the funerary dimensions of the Kingdom of the Lombards (568-774) / Annamaria Pazienza

International audience ; The contribution analyses the transformation process of Bliesbruck – a small town in the civitas of the Mediomatrici – in Late Antiquity. Despite the vicissitudes in the years 260-280 AD, there is no break in the occupation. The urban structure was preserved until after the middle of the 4 th c. AD, but the public centre lost part of its function and one of the districts is no longer occupied. Marked transformations occurred during the third quarter of the 4 th c. The occupation is restricted to the central part dominated by the public thermal complex. Some buildings are abandoned, others transformed by timber post constructions or using materials of re-use. The occupation – which continued until the middle of the 5 th c. – is characterised by a strong artisanal activity, such as copper alloys-working from recovered metal, the important diffusion of Argonne and Eifel ceramics and the circulation of numerous coins, including a remarkable proportion of the extreme end of the 4 th and 5 th c. The discovery of finery objects and militari , some of which have "germanic" or "oriental" characters, also raises the question of a military presence and shows that the town is integrated into long-distance commercial networks and inserted into the german-danubian cultural world of Late Antiquity. ; Cet article rend compte des évolutions durant l'Antiquité tardive de Bliesbruck, petite ville de la cité des Médiomatriques. Malgré les vicissitudes des années 260-280 apr. J.-C., elle est occupée sans rupture. La structure urbaine est ainsi globalement conservée jusqu'après le milieu du IV e s., même si le centre public a perdu partiellement sa fonction et que l'un des quartiers n'est plus occupé. Des transformations marquées surviennent au cours du troisième quart du IV e s. L'agglomération se resserre alors à sa partie centrale, dominée par le complexe des thermes publics. Des bâtiments sont abandonnés, d'autres transformés par de nouvelles constructions sur poteaux de bois ou utilisant des matériaux de ...

"The twenty essays brought together in this volume explore a wide range of perspectives relating to the materiality and textuality of medieval scripts and documents. The textuality and materiality of documents are an essential part of their communicative role. Medieval writing, as part of the interpersonal communication process, had to follow rules to ensure the legibility and understanding of a text and its connotations. This volume provides new insights into how different kinds of rules were designed, established, and followed in the shaping of medieval documents, as a means of enabling complex and subtle communicational phenomena. Because they provide a perspective for approaching the material they are supposed to organize, these rules (or the postulation of their use) provide powerful analytical tools for structural studies into given corpora of documents. Originating in talks given at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds between 2010 and 2012, the twenty papers in this collection offer a precise, in-depth analysis of a variety of medieval scripts, including books, charters, accounts, and epigraphic documents. In doing so, they integrate current developments in palaeography, diplomatics, and codicology in their traditional methodological set, as well as aspects of the digital humanities, and they bridge the gap between the so-called 'auxiliary sciences of history' and the field of communication studies. They illustrate different possibilities for exploring how the formal aspects of scripts took their place in the construction of effective communication structures."--

From the XX century, archaeologists and historians have been interested by the setting of archaeological sites, the structures and the people who specialised in the production of ceramics and tiles in Gaul. There are diverse sources : ancient texts, epigraphy, iconography as well as excavations reports, and the study of ceramics objects.Data for the IV to the VI centuries has been collated and studied during the realization of this thesis over five and a half years. A database was created to define the workshops and known productions areas, as well as those which are less well known or less well dated but which were at least partly active during the period studied. The database is composed of around 2055 records.The availability of clay and wood and the proximity of a navigable water course or a network of roads are clearly decisive factors in the setting of each workshop. However there are a number of other important factors: An active network of merchants, a positive economic and political context and sometimes regional or local legislation.The traditional artisanal structures and technics used remain unchanged between the IV-VI centuries. Overall, the evolution of the economy and the consumption of ceramics leads to a reduction in the size of these structures. Also the use of certain structures becomes more frequent. The kilns and supports for the soles, and ancillary structures, which are infrequently recorded and poorly understood, are discussed in this thesis. Certain technics and styles of fabrication and decoration become increasingly common.The density and frequency of the workshops underlines their economic and political importance and the evolution of the regions over the three centuries studied. The growth or decline of the ceramic production in some areas coincides with shifts in the centres of economic and political power in Gaul. ; Depuis le XXe siècle, les archéologues et les historiens se sont intéressés à l'emplacement des sites, aux structures et aux hommes spécialisés dans la production de ...

From the XX century, archaeologists and historians have been interested by the setting of archaeological sites, the structures and the people who specialised in the production of ceramics and tiles in Gaul. There are diverse sources : ancient texts, epigraphy, iconography as well as excavations reports, and the study of ceramics objects.Data for the IV to the VI centuries has been collated and studied during the realization of this thesis over five and a half years. A database was created to define the workshops and known productions areas, as well as those which are less well known or less well dated but which were at least partly active during the period studied. The database is composed of around 2055 records.The availability of clay and wood and the proximity of a navigable water course or a network of roads are clearly decisive factors in the setting of each workshop. However there are a number of other important factors: An active network of merchants, a positive economic and political context and sometimes regional or local legislation.The traditional artisanal structures and technics used remain unchanged between the IV-VI centuries. Overall, the evolution of the economy and the consumption of ceramics leads to a reduction in the size of these structures. Also the use of certain structures becomes more frequent. The kilns and supports for the soles, and ancillary structures, which are infrequently recorded and poorly understood, are discussed in this thesis. Certain technics and styles of fabrication and decoration become increasingly common.The density and frequency of the workshops underlines their economic and political importance and the evolution of the regions over the three centuries studied. The growth or decline of the ceramic production in some areas coincides with shifts in the centres of economic and political power in Gaul. ; Depuis le XXe siècle, les archéologues et les historiens se sont intéressés à l'emplacement des sites, aux structures et aux hommes spécialisés dans la production de ...