Social Mobility in Late Antique Gaul

Social Mobility in Late Antique Gaul
Author: Allen E. Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2009-07-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521762391

Barbarian Gaul -- Evidence and control -- Social structure I : hierarchy, mobility and aristocracies -- Social structure II : free and servile ranks -- The passive poor : prisoners -- The active poor : pauperes at church -- Healing and authority I : physicians -- Healing and authority II : enchanters

The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe

The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe
Author: Hyun Jin Kim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107067227

The Huns have often been treated as primitive barbarians with no advanced political organisation. Their place of origin was the so-called 'backward steppe'. It has been argued that whatever political organisation they achieved they owed to the 'civilizing influence' of the Germanic peoples they encountered as they moved west. This book argues that the steppes of Inner Asia were far from 'backward' and that the image of the primitive Huns is vastly misleading. They already possessed a highly sophisticated political culture while still in Inner Asia and, far from being passive recipients of advanced culture from the West, they passed on important elements of Central Eurasian culture to early medieval Europe, which they helped create. Their expansion also marked the beginning of a millennium of virtual monopoly of world power by empires originating in the steppes of Inner Asia. The rise of the Hunnic Empire was truly a geopolitical revolution.

Runes Across the North Sea from the Migration Period and Beyond

Runes Across the North Sea from the Migration Period and Beyond
Author: Livia Kaiser
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2021-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 311072832X

The scattered research history of the Old Frisian runic inscriptions dating to the early Medieval period (ca. AD 400–1000) calls for a comprehensive and systematic reprocessing of these objects within their socio-cultural context and against the backdrop of the Old English Runic tradition. This book presents an annotated edition of 24 inscriptions found in the modern-day Netherlands, England and Germany. It provides the reader with an introduction to runological methodology, a linguistic commentary on the features attested in the inscriptions, and a detailed catalogue which outlines the find history of each object and summarizes previous and new interpretations supplemented by pictures and drawings. This book additionally explores the question of Frisian identity and an independent Frisian runic writing tradition and its relation to the contemporary Anglo-Saxon runic culture. In its entirety, this work provides a rich basis for future research in the field of runic writing around the North Sea and may therefore be of interest to scholars of historical linguistics and early Medieval history and archaeology.

The Rome that Did Not Fall

The Rome that Did Not Fall
Author: Gerard Friell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2005-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134735456

The Rome that Did Not Fall provides a well-illustrated, comprehensive narrative and analysis of the Roman empire in the east, charting its remarkable growth and development which resulted in the distinct and enduring civilization of Byzantium. It considers: * the fourth century background * the invasions of Attila * the resources of the east * the struggle for stability * the achievements of Anastasius.

Through a Glass Brightly

Through a Glass Brightly
Author: Chris Entwistle
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2016-09-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1785702742

The twenty-five papers in this volume cover diverse aspects of the material culture of the late Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the metalwork and enamel of these times. Individual papers include major reinterpretations of objects in the British Museum's Byzantine collections as well as essays devoted to the Museum's recent acquisitions in this field. The volume celebrates the retirement of David Buckton, for over twenty years the curator of the British Museum's Early Christian and Byzantine collections and the National Icon Collection.

Astray

Astray
Author: Eluned Summers-Bremner
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2023-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789147042

A meandering celebration of the indirect and unforeseen path, revealing that to err is not just human—it is everything. This book explores how, far from being an act limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning—a force as intimately involved in the history of our universe as it will be in the future of our planet. In ancient Australian Aboriginal cosmology, in works about the origins of democracy and surviving disasters in ancient Greece, in Eurasian steppe nomadic culture, in the lifeways of the Roma, in the movements of today’s refugees, and in our attempts to preserve spaces of untracked online freedom, wandering is how creativity and skills of adaptation are preserved in the interests of ongoing life. Astray is an enthralling look at belonging and at notions of alienation and hope.

The Languages of Early Medieval Charters

The Languages of Early Medieval Charters
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2020-11-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004432337

This is the first major study of the interplay between Latin and Germanic vernaculars in early medieval records, examining the role of language choice in the documentary cultures of the Anglo-Saxon and eastern Frankish worlds.

The Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England

The Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Fran Colman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2014
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0198701675

This book examines the etymology, semantics, and grammatical behaviour of personal names in Anglo-Saxon England and considers their evolving place in Anglo-Saxon history and culture. The results of Dr Colman's wide-ranging investigation also have consequences for traditional analyses of linguistic structures.

The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage

The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage
Author: Anna Gannon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2003-04-24
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780199254651

This is the first scholarly art historical appraisal of early Anglo-Saxon coinage. Anna Gannon examines the many coins produced during this most vibrant period of English coinage. She analyses their prototypes and explores their sources and parallels with contemporary arts, literature, and theology, setting their meaning in context.