The Letter Collection of Ruricius of Limoges

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph W. Mathisen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Filing System ◽  
System P ◽  
Letter Collection ◽  
Transitional Phase ◽  
Rare Opportunity ◽  
Late Roman

The letters of Ruricius survive only in the Codex Sangallensis 190, written in the late eighth or early ninth century. They cover the period from ca.470 until ca. 507, the crucial transitional phase between imperial and barbarian Gaul, and are divided into two books, the first with eighteen letters and the second with sixty-five. The collection also contains 13 letters written to Ruricius. The collection therefore provides a rare opportunity to see sequences of letters in an exchange. These letters present a picture of life in late Roman Gaul that significantly complements that provided by Ruricius’ better-known confrères, such as Sidonius, Avitus, and Ennodius. The Ruricius collection has a very local flavor and, in an intimate and domestic way, describes everyday life in Visigothic Aquitania. The first book of letters was carefully organized as a unit in its own right. The second book is more difficult to assess.  Even though there are no indications of divisions in the manuscript, there are suggestions of attempts to organize some of the letters into internally consistent "dossiers." The second book also seems rather to preserve, at the beginning, traces of plans to create two additional books, and, toward the end, elements of a rudimentary filing system.

Amorium Excavations 1989: the second preliminary report

1990 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 205-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Harrison et al
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
General Survey ◽  
Major Site ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
Small Finds ◽  
The City ◽  
Rare Opportunity ◽  
Late Roman

This was the second season of excavation at Amorium in east Phrygia, and the team worked for five weeks, from 24 July 1989. Our main aim is to trace archaeological changes and developments within the city from Hellenistic times into the Selcuk period. We carried out a general survey of the Upper Town by a regular 25-metre grid, and we also excavated three trenches, one in the Upper Town and two (which we started last year) in the Lower (Fig. 1). A preliminary analysis is underway of the pottery and small finds, which in the Late Roman and Byzantine periods appear mostly of local manufacture. There are some relevant excavation-sites in Asia Minor for study of the Late Roman period, but there is very little research geared to the so-called Dark Ages, especially inland. Amorium is a major site, virtually untouched, and the city offers a rare opportunity to examine an early Byzantine urban landscape. The excavation so far has been very successful, and has highlighted the site's great potential. Next year, we shall try to clarify the chronology, by more intensive excavation of the existing trenches.

Article 4(6). Filing system

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Tosoni
Keyword(s):  
Personal Data ◽  
Filing System ◽  
System P ◽  
Manual Processing

In order to prevent creating a serious risk of circumvention, the protection of natural persons should be technologically neutral and should not depend on the techniques used. The protection of natural persons should apply to the processing of personal data by automated means, as well as to manual processing, if the personal data are contained or are intended to be contained in a filing system. Files or sets of files, as well as their cover pages, which are not structured according to specific criteria should not fall within the scope of this Regulation.

Making Gold-Mercury Amalgam: the Evidence for Gilding From Southampton

2008 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 37-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine Bayley ◽  
Andy Russel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Copper Alloys ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
The Third ◽  
Gold Mercury ◽  
Late Roman

Mercury gilding is a well-known decorative technique that was applied to both silver and a range of copper alloys from the third century AD until the introduction of electroplating in the nineteenth century. The process is well understood but, until recently, there has been no good archaeological evidence for it. Excavations in Southampton have discovered two rather different objects that were used to produce gold-mercury amalgam, the first stage in mercury gilding. One is a block of stone and the other a reused amphora sherd. The stone comes from a ninth-century context, while the amphora sherd's findspot is less well dated: it could have been reused in the late Roman or the Saxon period.

Neo-Assyrian and Israelite History in the Ninth Century: the Role of Shalmaneser III

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Lawson Younger
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
System P ◽  
Northern Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common

In historical studies, one of the common models of periodization is the use of centuries. In the case of the history of Assyria, however, the ninth century does not accurately reflect periodization, even if long or short century designations are used. In the history of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, Shalmaneser III's reign serves as a bridge between two important periods, impacting the Omride and Jehuite periods through his 853 and 841 campaigns. The resistance offered by Ahab in conjunction with the western alliance that fought Shalmaneser at Qarqar in 853 gave way to the tribute gift of Jehu towards the conclusion of Shalmaneser's 841 campaign. While many years would pass before the Assyrians would accomplish the conquest of Israel, the initial contacts between Shalmaneser III and Ahab and Jehu demonstrate the two options that the Israelite kings would implement throughout the stormy relationship with the ‘Great King(s) of Assyria’ until the fall of Samaria and the land's incorporation into the Assyrian provincial system.

Identity, Belonging and Migration

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Education System ◽  
European Society ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
System P ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Many

By investigating the narratives of everyday life, Identity, Belonging and Migration provides some understanding of the many socio-political, historical, discursive and socio-cognitive processes involved in expressions of everyday racism in European countries. Consisting of three parts, the book provides a contextual understanding of European society past and present, foregrounding race and discrimination’s place within it. Part one of the text analyses the theoretical perspectives on belonging within a European context, part two addresses the exclusionary discourses and practices of states and their institutions, and part three concludes the book with four thematic discussions on violence, resistance, Islamophobia in the Netherlands, and racism in the education system.

The Revival of Opus Sectile Pavements in Rome and the Vicinity in the Carolingian Period

1980 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 157-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles B. McClendon
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
Distinct Group ◽  
Structural Fabric ◽  
Architectural Sculpture ◽  
Church Decoration ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church ◽  
Rare Opportunity

The churches in Rome built between the end of the eighth and the middle of the ninth century are among the best preserved monuments of the Carolingian era anywhere in Europe. As such, they have afforded scholars the rare opportunity to study in detail the various media utilised in Carolingian church decoration. The floor pavement, however, is an aspect of this decoration that has received little attention and it is my purpose here to point out the presence of a small but distinct group of opus sectile floors in Rome that seem to belong to this period.Of the Carolingian churches in Rome, S. Prassede, built for Pope Paschal I (817–824), is by far the most complete in its structural fabric, architectural sculpture and mosaic decoration. The best preserved part of the church is the S. Zeno chapel adjoining the right aisle, and the opus sectile pavement of this chapel is perhaps the most luxurious in our series. Indeed, it is the only one to have received previous notice, beginning with its publication by R. Cattaneo in 1890.

Lamluda: from the excavation to the archaeometric analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 65-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliva Menozzi ◽  
Sonia Antonelli ◽  
Angela Cinalli ◽  
Maria Cristina Mancini ◽  
Silvano Agostini
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Data ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Main Road ◽  
Coarse Wares ◽  
The Many ◽  
Late Roman

AbstractIn the last ten years the Archaeological Mission of Chieti University in Cyrenaica has investigated, through intensive field surveys and excavations, several contexts of the Cyrenaican chora. Among the many recorded settlements, Lamluda is the most interesting because of its urban organisation, productivity and location at the intersection of the main road network. Our aim is to present the preliminary data from the mapping, survey and excavation of the site, including the results of the archaeometric analysis and the epigraphic study. Among the copious ceramic finds the Roman coarse wares and amphorae are particularly numerous, dating mainly to the Imperial, Late Roman and Byzantine periods. The pottery illustrates not only the longevity of the settlement, which lasted until the eighth or ninth century AD, but also helps to trace the evolution of agricultural wealth and trade. Through archaeometrical and archaeological research it is possible to identify the main local products and their circulation, as well as the imported or exported amphorae and hypothesise on the nature of their contents.

Children’s Material Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 263-288
Author(s):  
Ellen Swift ◽  
Jo Stoner ◽  
April Pudsey
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Functional Properties ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Roman World ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Egyptian History ◽  
Late Roman

This chapter explores the material culture of children in the Petrie collection, and what these items can reveal about children’s experience, agency, and concerns in the Roman and late Roman periods of Egypt. It considers informal spheres of everyday life for children: the family, peer relationships, play, and religion, asking how children themselves would have had some agency in shaping their perspectives of the world around them. The chapter considers the designed and functional properties of wooden and ceramic dolls, within a framework of dolls in earlier periods of Egyptian history and across the Roman world more broadly. It asks of these, and other objects of children’s cultures, how they held the capacity to be played and interacted with in a range of ways, individually or with peers, that were more nuanced than their designed use in socializing children in different social groups. The chapter examines ceramic boats, wooden pull-along horses, and animal figurines. The chapter also studies the commonplace figure of Harpokrates, the child-protector deity, as represented on small objects, and his familiarity with children.

scholarly journals Ármin Vámbéry (1832-1913) as a Historian of Early Hungarian Settlement in the Carpathian Basin

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 18-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nándor Dreisziger
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Carpathian Basin ◽  
Linguistic Family ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Late Roman

In the English-speaking world Ármin Vámbéry is known as a traveler in Central Asia and a student of Turkic cultures and languages. In his native Hungary he is also known for his disagreement with linguists who believed that Hungarian belonged to the Ugric branch of the Finno-Ugric languages—a part of the Uralic linguistic family. Rather than accepting this theory, Vámbéry contended that Hungarian was largely a Turkic language that belonged more to the Altaic family. Few people know that Vámbéry also expressed strong opinions about the genesis of the Hungarian nation. The most important aspect of Vámbéry’s theory about Hungarian origins is the thesis that Hungarian ethnogenesis took place—beginning with late Roman times or even earlier—in the Carpathian Basin. A corollary of this proposition is that the nomadic tribes that conquered the Carpathian Basin at the end of the ninth century were Turkic peoples who were few in numbers and were assimilated by the region’s autochthonous—and by then Hungarian-speaking—population. This paper outlines Vámbéry’s arguments and describes to what extent research on this subject in the century since Vámbéry’s death has confirmed or contradicted his unconventional ideas.

Reconciling Excavated Textiles with Contemporary Documentary Evidence: a Closer Look at the Finds from a Sixth-Century Tomb at Astana

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-221
Author(s):  
FENG ZHAO ◽  
LE WANG
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
The Silk Road ◽  
Rare Opportunity

The excavation of tombs in the Astana graveyard, Turfan, has provided a wealth of evidence for studying everyday life on the Silk Road. Manuscripts and textiles constitute two major groups of the excavated finds. Among the manuscripts are over 60 burial inventories (yiwushu), listing items that would accompany the deceased to the afterlife. Some of the items on the inventories were real and can be identified with objects found in the tombs; some were represented symbolically: for example in miniature form; and others, probably included for formulaic purposes, were imagined. Although there have been several studies on the burial inventories and textiles from Turfan, the two are usually considered separately, with little attention to their correlation, mainly because burial inventories tend to be studied by specialists working on documents, and textiles are usually studied by textile specialists. In 2005 we were fortunate to be able to examine all the textiles from a mid-sixth century tomb at Astana (72TAM170), and to study the three burial inventories found in that tomb. Comparing the physical textile remains against the burial inventories from the same tomb offered us a rare opportunity to test the accuracy of the burial inventories, and also to identify the physical textile remains with the textile terminology of that time. This article is arranged in four parts which present a brief description of the tomb, details of the burial inventories, a comparison of the textile remains against the burial inventories and a closer look at the silk textiles found in the tomb.

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