Germania inferior, province between the civilizations: Celtic periphery, immigration area for the Germanic tribes, Roman dominion. The South fertile and rich in raw materials, the North barren and ...inhospitable. Roman cities and native settlements, villas and farms; too Roman for the Germanic inhabitants, too Germanic for the Romans. Who did actually inhabit the province? To what social conditions did the regional environment give rise? What economic exchange was there between town and country, between the native inhabitants, the Romans and the free Germanic peoples? Archaeologists and historians now have more sophisticated tools and can provide new, more precise answers to these questions. The North of the province in particular has been explored more thoroughly, and the results of that research form the basis of this volume. The papers resultet from a colloquium with German and Dutch archaeologists and historians. They draw up an account of the current state of the art and show the perspective for future research.
Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 c.e. Exploiting neglected texts, ...author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene (“Catholic”) and Homoian (“Arian”) Christians and explores their rival claims to political and religious legitimacy. These contests-sometimes violent-are key to understanding the wider and much-debated issues of identity and state formation in the post-imperial West.
Die vorliegende Studie fragt nach der Entstehung des Königtums bei den germanischsprachigen Barbaren. Im Zentrum steht dabei zunächst die längst überfällige methodische Auseinandersetzung mit jener ...älteren Forschungsmeinung, nach der das völkerwanderungszeitliche Königtum als Heerkönigtum anzusprechen und von einem älteren, sakral fundierten Volkskönigtum zu unterscheiden ist. Ausgehend von neueren Forschungen und unter Einbeziehung archäologischer Befunde wird anschließend eine neue Perspektive auf die Herrschaftsentwicklung innerhalb der barbarischen Gesellschaften entwickelt.
Ethan Segal challenges expectations for medieval Japan by highlighting the prominent roles given to female performers in the great war tale Heike monogatari, revealing that connections between women ...and Buddhism were, at times, deemed more important than samurai and battles. Together, the three papers offer unique views of material that is less commonly studied in traditional Medievalism and raise questions about how we interpret (or misinterpret) medieval texts, how we project contemporary cultural expectations onto the past, and what we can learn about medieval religious beliefs by examining literary representations of women. ...several other causation models will be introduced to discuss the effectiveness of introducing students to various models of historical causation.
