scholarly journals The Date of the Bucolic Poet Martius Valerius

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 301-335
Author(s):  
Justin A. Stover
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bucolic Poetry

ABSTRACTThe collection of four Latin bucolics ascribed to one Martius Valerius was only published in the twentieth century; they have been widely considered as twelfth-century compositions. Picking up on suggestions proposed by François Dolbeau, this study presents evidence that Martius drew directly on the bucolics of Theocritus, and that his poems are late antique, not medieval, literary productions, probably written in the sixth century. Such a conclusion will require a revision of the history of post-Virgilian Latin bucolic poetry.

Archery in the Preface to Procopius' Wars

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-406
Author(s):  
Marion Kruse
Keyword(s):  
Military History ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Rhetorical Tradition ◽  
Classical Models ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military

Historians have long taken Procopius' description of heavily armored mounted archers in the opening of his Wars to be a more-or-less accurate depiction of contemporary military practice. This paper argues that Procopius employs archery as a metaphor for authorship by drawing on the techniques of figured writing (which include metaphor) as developed by the late antique rhetorical tradition in which he was trained. The comparison between Homeric and contemporary warriors at the opening of the Wars is therefore a figured way for Procopius to engage in a self-referential discussion concerning authorship and, in particular, to develop his agonistic relationship with his primary classical models, Herodotus and Thucydides. This conclusion requires a reevaluation of the military history of the sixth century.

scholarly journals Armenia in Armenian in Arab Islamic Sources during the Sixth Century AH / Twelfth Century AD

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-162
Author(s):  
المدرس جواد كاظم عبدالحاج
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
History Of

Although the political and economic decline that occurred to Arabic Islamic world and the division that hit these countries in the sixth century of Hijra /Eleventh  A D and appearance of fighting states with spread of conflicts and battles s among them as well as the increasing crusade danger , bur this age and on the contrary witnessed great thinking production in various knowledge fields .Study the works of historians and thinkers expose the existence of insights , visions and rules that they dedicated from  through their living with these events .Each historian has his works in his specialization which its reflections  on his books .It seems that the scholars see that history is their first resource and their support which cannot get ride off .This is very i9mportant .Reading books in literature , geography and language helps the scholar to obtain very important information in his scientific study .study the history of Armenia impose on the historian to read these books specially that that the history of these nation that related with Arabs by important historical relations was not studied widely like histories of neighboring  people .Thus this research ( Armenia in the Resources of Sixth century of Hijra /Eleventh  A D  ) as complementary for hat we begins to study the resources of Armenia history

The Kiev State and Its Relations with Western Europe

1947 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 27-46
Author(s):  
F. Dvornik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Early History ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
The Many

The early history of Russia is still in many respects an unexplored field, and the place which the first Russian political organisation occupied in Europe from the tenth to the twelfth century is not yet appreciated as it deserves to be, even by Russian scholars themselves. The research carried out in this field in Russia at the end of the nineteenth and in the early twentieth century was cut short for almost three decades by political events. It is only recently that the history of Kievan Russia has aroused a keener interest among the historians of Soviet Russia, as witness the many studies published in Vestnik Drevnei Istorii and especially the work of B. D. Grekov.

scholarly journals Tibetan Bonpo Mendrup: The Precious Formula’s Transmission

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-180
Author(s):  
Anna Sehnalova
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Present Form ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Medical Tradition ◽  
History Of

The article presents the traceable history of the Tibetan Bonpo mendrup ritual practice in textual sources, as it has been recorded by the Bonpos themselves. These records are put into context with the current performance of the practice by the Bonpo exile community. The study aims to embrace all the relevant Bonpo historical material accessible, and thus deals with documents of a wide time spam, from the eleventh or twelfth century onwards until the early twentieth century. The Bonpo mendrup is a healing, longevity, rejuvenation and enlightenment-seeking contemplative meditational practice of the Tibetan tantric tradition with a strong emphasis on its medicinal component. It embodies various spheres of knowledge and their principles, as the Indian tantrism, a strong Buddhist cosmological organisational and soteriological framework, the Tibetan medical tradition, with embedded elements of alchemy and Tibetan indigenous religious notions. As the studied sources reveal, its origin can be traced to the intellectually vibrant times in Tibet of around the twelfth century, where all these fields of expertise came together. Thus the case provides an example of such a complex composed of tantra, medicine and alchemic influences specific for Tibet. Since then, the Bonpo mendrup can be followed by varied records in a number of Bonpo literary sources of different genres. These are compared with the present form of the ritual. The sources support the ritual’s anticipated transmission and practice throughout the history. They show that different ideas apply to its origin, and particularly its revelation as a treasure text, and that the ritual existed in varied forms, and was shared and imparted among different lineages of Bon. The most important finding is that the practice is actually traceable throughout the history, and likely have never ceased to be active over the centuries from the very early times until today. 

The Provenance of Ecumenius' Commentary On the Apocalypse

1998 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-108
Author(s):  
John C. Lamoreaux
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Significant Source ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
Severus Of Antioch ◽  
Textual Critic

AbstractThe earliest extant Greek commentary on the Apocalypse was written by a certain Ecumenius. Many questions surround the provenance of this commentary. Was it written early in the sixth century or does it rather stem from the later decades of that same century? Was it written by a Monophysite? or by a Chalcedonian? Was the author of this commentary a friend and ally of Severus of Antioch? If not, who then was he? Such questions are important because Ecumenius' commentary is important. It offers an early uncial text of the Apocalypse of great moment for the New Testament textual critic. It is a significant source for understanding late antique efforts to support the canonical authority of the Apocalypse.' It contains crucial evidence of developing Mariological doctrines. Even more interesting, however, is the commentary's place in the history of polemic against Origen. Such themes are subtle, yet so frequent that one could read the text primarily as an attempt to provide an eschatological vision orthodox enough to replace that of Origen and his followers. But these are matters for another time.2 Here our concern is that of establishing the provenance of this text-who wrote it? when? and where?

Miracles in the Making of Twentieth-Century Spanishness: Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Buñuel’sViridianaandIsidro El Labrador

2005 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 464-475
Author(s):  
Anthony Lappin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ramon Menendez Pidal ◽  
History Of

This paper will suggest how the recounting of miracles (the first textual, the other filmic) was designed to support a particular ideology of Spanishness during the twentieth century. Both miracles here analysed were presented as having taken place during the late eleventh or early twelfth century, a key moment in the history of Spain, a point at which its Christian kingdoms began successfully to challenge the dominance of the Muslim states of Al-Andalus.

Vehicles of the Soul from Plato to Philoponus

2021 ◽  
pp. 6-34
Author(s):  
Simon Cox
Keyword(s):  
Sixth Century ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Subtle Body ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History

This chapter traces the prehistory of the subtle body, developing out of late antique Neoplatonic conceptions of the ochema-pneuma, “vehicles of the soul,” which bear souls from one incarnation to the next. It goes through the entire history of late antique Neoplatonism surveying how major thinkers engaged with and formulated ideas about these soul-bearing vehicles, from the mystical existentialism of Porphyry and Iamblichus (third century) to the detailed and philosophically sophisticated descriptions of Damascius and John Philoponus (sixth century). It ends with the ascendance of Christianity for which this notion was no longer useful, jettisoning the subtle body and sending the idea into a thousand-year slumber.

Nicopolis ad Istrum: Backward and Balkan?

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. WHITTOW
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of

The story of Nicopolis ad Istrum and its citizens exemplifies much that is common to the urban history of the whole Roman Empire. This chapter reviews the history of Nicopolis and its transition into the small fortified site of the fifth to seventh centuries and compares it with the evidence from the Near East and Asia Minor. It argues that Nicopolis may not have experienced a cataclysm as has been suggested, and that, as in the fifth and sixth century west, where landowning elites showed a striking ability to adapt and survive, there was an important element of continuity on the lower Danube, which in turn may account for the distinctive ‘Roman’ element in the early medieval Bulgar state. It also suggests that the term ‘transition to Late Antiquity’ should be applied to what happened at Nicopolis in the third century: what happened there in the fifth was the transition to the middle ages. This chapter also describes late antique urbanism in the Balkans by focusing on the Justiniana Prima site.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Davis-Secord
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Intellectual Networks

This book examines Sicily's place within the religious, diplomatic, military, commercial, and intellectual networks of the Mediterranean world. It traces the history of Sicily, from the sixth-century incorporation of the island into the Byzantine empire, through the period of Muslim rule (827–1061), until the end of Norman rule there in the late twelfth century. In particular, it investigates how Sicily moved from the Latin Christian world into the Greek Christian one, then into the Islamicate civilization, and then back into Latin Christendom. In order to understand Sicily's role(s) within the broader Mediterranean system of the sixth through twelfth centuries, the book explores patterns of travel and communication between Sicily and elsewhere—between Constantinople and Rome, between Byzantium and the Islamic world. Finally, it describes Sicily in the dār al-Islām.

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