scholarly journals Archaeopedological analysis of colluvial deposits in favourable and unfavourable areas: reconstruction of land use dynamics in SW Germany

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 171624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Henkner ◽  
Jan Ahlrichs ◽  
Sean Downey ◽  
Markus Fuchs ◽  
Bruce James ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Black Forest ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Land Use Dynamics ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
The Middle Ages

Colluvial deposits, as the correlate sediments of human-induced soil erosion, depict an excellent archive of land use and landscape history as indicators of human–environment interactions. This study establishes a chronostratigraphy of colluvial deposits and reconstructs past land use dynamics in the Swabian Jura, the Baar and the Black Forest in SW Germany. In the agriculturally favourable Baar area multiple main phases of colluvial deposition, and thus intensified land use, can be identified from the Neolithic to the Modern times. In the unfavourable Swabian Jura increased colluvial deposition began later compared to the more favourable areas in the Baar. The same holds true for the unfavourable areas of the Black Forest, but intensified land use can only be reconstructed for the Middle Ages and Early Modern times instead of for the Bronze and Iron Age as in the Swabian Jura. Land use intensity and settlement dynamics represented by thick, multilayered colluvial deposits increase in the Baar and the Black Forest during the Middle Ages. In between those phases of geomorphodynamic activity and colluviation, stable phases occur, interpreted as phases with sustainable land use or without human presence.

Protestant Rivalry — Metaphysics and Rhetoric in Germany c. 1590–1620

1990 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
The Middle Ages

One of the most remarkable changes to take place at German Protestant universities during the last decade of the sixteenth century and the first twenty years of the seventeenth century was the return of metaphysics after more than halfa century of absence. University metaphysics has acquired a reputation for sterile aridity which was strengthened rather than diminished by its survival in early modern times, when such disciplines are supposed deservedly to have vanished with the end of the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, this survival has attracted some attention this century. For a long urne it was assumed that German Protestants needed a metaphysical defence against the intellectual vigour of the Jesuits. Lewalter has shown, however, that this was not the case.

scholarly journals Deutsch als Minderheitensprache

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Claudia Maria Riehl ◽  
Rahel Beyer
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
World War ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
The Middle Ages

<p>This contribution focusses on varieties of German which are spoken in extraterritorial German communities. Many of these groups go back to emigration in the Middle Ages or in Early Modern Times and have developed a specific koiné which is characterized by dialect merger and language contact with the surrounding languages. Another group are so-called "border minorities", extraterritorial communities that emerged after World War I and are bordering German-speaking countries. The article first provides a historical overview of the various German-speaking minorities. Then, the different sociolinguistic settings of the respective language communities are addressed and illustrated by examples of communities with a different sociolinguistic and linguistic background.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals The Dating and Interpretation of a Field Wall in Öggestorp

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Leif Häggström ◽  
Joanna Baran ◽  
Alf Eriksson ◽  
Andrew Murray
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Optically Stimulated Luminescence ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Current State ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
Contextual Meaning

The interpretation of the use and contextual meaning of fossil agrarian forms is connected with their age. In this article we discuss the dating and interpretation of a field wall in Öggestorp, situated on the northern rim of the southern Swedish uplands in the province of Småland. Öggestorp is a complex archaeological site dating from the early Iron Age (500 BC to AD 550). The site was also used for various forms of agriculture during the Middle Ages and in early modern times, a fact which complicates the dating and the interpretation of the agrarian features. We discuss the possibility and practical issue of dating agrarian sediments by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL). By combining OSL and other methods, a reliable estimation of age can be established. The paper also deals with the possible implications of the OSL-method in relation to the current state of knowledge of agrarian structures. We show that a serious dating of agricultural remains must be based upon a critically used combination ofmethods. Without a well-argued date, it is difficult to relate any agrarian form chronologically to other remains in a fossil landscape of multilayered complexity.

Lexical contact in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: French

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2017) ◽  
pp. 255-276
Author(s):  
Laura Minervini
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
French Case ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
The Middle Ages

AbstractIn the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, French was variously involved in the dynamics of lexical contact in the Mediterranean. The study of lexical loans may display the stratification of influences and linguistic exchanges that is peculiar to the “French case”.

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