Reception and History of Research in the Roman Provinces of Germany

2015 ◽  
pp. 519-546
Author(s):  
Alexander Heising
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Roman Archaeology ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
History Of Research ◽  
Roman Provinces ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academic Recognition ◽  
Roman Germany

This chapter considers the reception and history of research in the provinces of Roman Germany. It begins by tracing the roots of the discipline of provincial Roman archaeology to the conceptual framework of ancient history and classical archaeology, and its methods to prehistory and protohistory. It then outlines the eight phases of the history of Roman research in Germany: creation of legends in the Middle Ages; rebirth of the ancient world in the Renaissance; the Roman Germany of the antiquarians and the beginnings of limes research; early science and civic societies; the emergence of modern organised science; the Römlingeat the time of National Socialism; academic recognition; and current research (dissertations and externally funded projects). The chapter concludes by discussing prospects for the discipline of provincial Romanarchaeology.

The Odessa Museum of Archaeology

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
S.B. Okhotnikov
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Soviet Academy ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

AbstractThe Odessa Museum of Archaeology was founded in 1825 by local antiquarians. The museum's collection grew in part due to excavations of classical sites in the region, in part due to gifts and purchases from dealers in classical antiquities. Up to the Second World War the focus of the Museum's activities was classical archaeology. In the post-war period this expanded to include the whole of the ancient history of the region from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages. The museum now houses one of the best collections of Classical Antiquities in the former Soviet Union and the third-ranking Egyptological collection. The museum formed from 1972 part of the Soviet Academy system and undertook fieldwork on the Lower Dniester at Bronze Age sites, as well as at classical sites such as Tyras, Nikonion, the site of the ancient Odessos, and Leuke and medieval sites such as Belgorod.

scholarly journals Augusto en las primeras historias de España y en los programas iconográficos del Renacimiento

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Gloria Mora
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Alfonso X ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

Resumen: Es frecuente en las historias de España la alusión a ciertos personajes de la historia de Roma destacando el papel fundamental que desempeñaron en la historia antigua de España y de la misma Roma, como César, fundador de ciudades, o Trajano y los llamados “emperadores españoles”. El propósito de este trabajo es rastrear el tratamiento que recibió Augusto en la historiografía española de época medieval y del Renacimiento desde las crónicas de Lucas de Tuy, Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada y las Estorias de Alfonso X el Sabio hasta los relatos de los cronistas reales Elio Antonio de Nebrija, Florián de Ocampo y Ambrosio de Morales. Se estudiará también la presencia de Augusto en las colecciones y los programas iconográficos de la monarquía.Palabras clave: Augusto, Historiografía española, Programas iconográficos del Renacimiento, Coleccionismo de antigüedades.Abstract: It is common in Spanish historiography to allude to certain characters in the history of Rome by highlighting their crucial role in the ancient history of Spain and in Rome itself, e.g., Caesar, founder of cities, or Trajan and the so-called “Spanish emperors”. The purpose of this paper is to follow the treatment received by Augustus in the Spanish historiography of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance using the chronicles of Lucas de Tuy, Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada, the Estorias of Alfonso X the Wise, and the stories of the royal chroniclers Elio Antonio de Nebrija, Florián de Ocampo and Ambrosio de Morales. The presence of Augustus in collections and iconographic programmes of the monarchy is also studied.Key words: Augustus, Spanish Historiography, Iconographic programs of the Renaissance, Collection of antiquities.

Roman Rural Landscape Occupation in Present-Day Germany

2015 ◽  
pp. 115-144
Author(s):  
Thomas Maurer
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Archaeology ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Rural Settlement ◽  
Spatial Studies ◽  
Settlement Archaeology ◽  
History Of Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Germany ◽  
Upper Rhine

This chapter deals with spatial studies concerning Roman settlement within the area of present-day Germany, paying special attention to the parts of the provinces of Germania Inferior and Germania Superior, as well as the parts of the province of Gallia Belgica and the northern part of the province of Raetia that lie within Germany’s modern borders. It begins with a brief survey of the history of research in ‘rural settlement archaeology’ in general and ‘landscape archaeology’ in particular in Roman Germany from the later 1980s to today. It then considers Roman settlement archaeology in the Lower and Middle Rhine regions, the Moselle region, the northern Rhine region, and the southern Upper Rhine and Neckar region. The chapter concludes by assessing settlement archaeology in northern Raetia.

Dares Compiled

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-116
Author(s):  
Frederic Clark
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

Chapter 2 surveys the transmission and reception of the Destruction of Troy in the Middle Ages, from the earliest attestations of the text in Carolingian Francia to the height of its popularity in twelfth-century England. Specifically, it examines how medieval scribes and compilers packaged the text in multi-text manuscripts, which survive today in great numbers. Many of these codices continued Dares with accounts of the Trojan origins of the Franks, Britons, and other medieval peoples. In this fashion the Destruction of Troy morphed from an ancient history into a medieval genealogy—it functioned as a means of linking the medieval present to the ancient past through claims of Trojan ancestry. The latter portions of the chapter explore Dares’ many connections with Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain, a twelfth-century pseudo-history that famously claimed Britain had been founded by the Trojan Brutus.

Historicity of the Qur’anic Dhu al-Qarnayn and the Myths of Alexander

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Ataullah Bogdan Kopanski
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Drama ◽  
Diodorus Siculus ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Christian Writer ◽  
Of Greece

Several verses of  SËrah al-Kahf (the Qur’an 18:85-98) contains   a didactic lesson of history  which  unlike the moralistic lesson of Plato on the rise, growth  and fall of mythical Atlantis, is  an abridged record on events in  the unnamed  Eurasian empire  threatened by  terror of the raiding hordes of ferocious nomads from the Northeast  in the Iron Age.  It is neither history of Alexander the Macedon’s conquest of Greece, Phoenicia, Egypt, Persia and India  reported  by Arrian, Quintus Curtius, Diodorus Siculus, Polybius, Appian, Plutarch and Justin  nor  the Alexandrine Romance  composed by the anonymous Syrian Christian writer (or writers) in the early Middle Ages of the Mediterranean.  Didactica of this Qur’anic SËrah  is  not based  on the Persian Iskander-name, either. Like the life of the historical Prophet Isa (Jesus,a.s.), the historicity of Qur’anic monotheistic ruler DhË al-Qarnayn deeply divides  the Muslim, Jewish, Christian and agnostic readers of the ancient history. Their opinions are intellectual mirrors of continuous struggle between monotheism, henotheism and secularism, contextualized into historical drama  of  divided  nations and empires. 

The Transformation into the Early Middle Ages (Fourth to Eighth Centuries)

2015 ◽  
pp. 490-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hubert Fehr
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
River Rhine ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Roman Provinces ◽  
Roman Germany ◽  
Medieval Archaeology

This chapter focuses on the transformation of Roman Germany into the early Middle Ages (fourth to eighth centuries). The final collapse of Roman rule in northern Gaul in the middle of the fifth century signalled the de facto end of the three Late Roman provinces: Germania Prima, Germania Secunda, and Maxima Sequanorum. The territories along the western bank of the River Rhine experienced quite different political destinies between the middle of the fifth and the middle of the sixth century. The chapter first looks at how migrations of peoples from Barbaricum into the Roman Empire caused the end of a Roman-style society and economy in former Roman Germany. It then discusses early medieval archaeology in Germany, with particular emphasis on cemeteries and churches. Finally, it analyses methodological developments in late antique and early medieval archaeology, along with the transformation of towns and landscape/rural settlements.

scholarly journals Finds of Artifacts from the Charyshsky District of the Altai Territory

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-60
Author(s):  
Grushin S. ◽  
◽  
Afanasieva E. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Fluorescence Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

The paper is devoted to the generalization and characterization of random finds from the territory of the Charyshsky district of the Altai Territory. The summary includes both previously published items and new artifacts, information about which was received by the authors during the archaeological research of the Ust-Teplaya burial ground in 2020. The collection of artifacts published for the first time consists of three items. This is a double-headed iron psalium with sculptural design of the tips in the form of the heads of mythical birds with an elongated beak, a horn double-headed psalium and a bronze knife with a ring pommel. These items supplement the body of random finds from the area under consideration, which includes items already published in the scientific literature, such as stone drilled axes belonging to the Afanasyevo culture of the Eneolithic era of the 31st — 27th centuries BC, stone mace pommel and bronze dagger of the early and Middle Bronze period of the 22nd — 15th centuries BC and bronze bits of the Early Scythian time of the 8th — 6th centuries BC. The paper also presents the results of X-ray fluorescence analysis of a metal knife and bit, which showed that the objects were cast from a copper-tin alloy. The analyzed artifacts, random finds from the territory of the Charyshsky district of the Altai Territory, reflect various historical and cultural stages of the development of the population of Northern Altai. The artifacts add to the collection of archaeological sources on the ancient history of the region, from the Eneolithic to the early Middle Ages inclusively. Keywords: random finds, artifacts, psalia, bits, knife and dagger, mace pommel, stone axes, Eneolithic, Afanasiev culture, Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Early Scythian time, Pazyryk culture, Early Middle Ages

scholarly journals XVI. Transcript of a Chronicle in the Harleian Library of MSS. No. 6217, entitled, “An Historical Relation of certain passages about the end of King Edward the Third, and of his Death:” communicated in a Letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. President, by Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S. Treasurer

Archaeologia ◽  
1829 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 204-284
Author(s):  
Thomas Amyot
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Relation ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Middle Ages

Conceiving that the pages of our Transactions cannot be better occupied than by the publication of such early and authentic manuscripts as may serve to throw light on obscure periods of our ancient History, I beg leave to lay before the Society a transcript which I have caused to be made from the Harleian Library of a Chronicle containing a very minute relation of some remarkable events in the two last years of Edward the Third, which, as our Vice President, Mr. Hallam, has observed in his History of the Middle Ages, have been slurred over by most of our general historians.

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