Mythenauslegung, römische Königszeit und der Tod des Kaiser Valens: Christliche Interpretationen von Orosius bis Isidor von Sevilla

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 73-93
Author(s):  
Dirk Rohmann
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
The World ◽  
Isidore Of Seville ◽  
History Of

Chronicles became the dominant historical genre in the transition period between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. While individual authors tended to build one on another, they also exerted considerable licence in rearranging the tralaticious material they found in previous compilations. Comparing Latin with Greek authors– Orosius, Isidore of Seville, Gregory of Tours, and John Malalas – the present contribution argues that all of these historical works, while summarising the history of antiquity, reflect discourses of their own day and age. These differences can be appreciated in comparing their specific views on the origin of sin in the world, on king Numa, and on the death of the Arian emperor Valens.

scholarly journals THE NATURE OF THE ARAB UNIVERSAL BIBLIOGRAPHY KITAB AL–FIHRIST BY IBN AN-NADIM FROM 987 (377 HIJRAH) (A HIGHWAY OF SCIENCE AND INFORMATION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC ENCYCLOPEDIC INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE PLANET: HELLENISTIC EGYPT, LATE ANTIQUIT

ASJ. ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (52) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
S. Denchev ◽  
A. Kumanova ◽  
N. Kazanski
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The World

 For the goals of the e-library UNIVERSALICA has been presented the instruments of the world universal bibliography: 1) library (Hellenistic Egypt); 2) selective (Ancient Rome); 3) bio-bibliographic dictionaries  (Late antiquity – Germany on the eve of the Reformation); 4) bibliographic encyclopedia (Late antiquity, Early Middle Ages). : In this context, the multi-functional secondary documentary encyclopaedic work, which is an international and retrospective annotated bibliographic index, Kitāb al-Fihrist (987) by Abū’l-Faraj Muḥammad ibn AbīYa‘qūb ibn Isḥāq an-Nadīm al-Warrāq (932-990).

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander O'Hara
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The World

In the early Middle Ages Europe’s political landscape was significantly shaped by the emergence of new fundamental modes of identification, both ethnic and religious. These processes created new forms of social cohesion and conflict. The world into which the Irish ascetic exile and monastic founder Columbanus entered when he left Ireland toward the end of the sixth century was a world of gentes, new constellations of peoples. The pluralistic political landscape of the gentes had replaced a world of empire. This chapter introduces the themes and approach of this volume, which explores Columbanus’s influence on Robert Schuman, one of the founding fathers of the modern European Union; the emerging idea of Europe in the early Middle Ages, which Columbanus gave voice to; and how reciprocity and cultural hybridity can be useful lenses through which to study this period of transformation from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages.

Wer ist der Jüngling? Die Taufe des Gundaphor in den Thomasakten und der Kult des Asklepios

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clemens Leonhard
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
World Views ◽  
Literary Figure ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reverse Situation

AbstractThe Acts of Thomas relate the Apostle Thomas’ missionary journey to India and his missionary successes. The narrative tells that Thomas baptized important persons of the Indian society. The description of king Gundaphor’s baptism ends in a vision: “And when they had come up out of the water, a youth appeared to them, and he was holding a lighted taper; and the light of the lamps became pale through its light.”1 The following essay discusses the question of the identification of this literary figure of the young man in the context of similar evidence from the cult of Asclepius. It also reflects on the explanation of this figure from a methodological point of view. It analyzes the modern perception of these texts and its contribution to the understanding of the ancient liturgies of baptism and their ritual shape. While the rituals, procedures, places, and notions of the cult of Asclepius were firmly embedded in Christian world views of late antiquity and the early middle ages, the allusions to the cult of Asclepius in the Acts of Thomas rather suggest the reverse situation for that earlier epoch: The Acts of Thomas explain Christian baptism in terms of the theory of the cult of Asclepius. As it becomes difficult, furthermore, to distinguish between elements of ritual description and ritual explanation in the guise of the narrative, these observations advise caution in the use of the descriptions of the liturgies in the Acts of Thomas for reconstructions of the history of Christian baptism.

Rituali di corte. Il Triclinio dei XIX Letti del Grande Palazzo di Costantinopoli

2021 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-110
Author(s):  
Isabella Baldini
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
The Third ◽  
Great Banquet

Abstract The present contribution aims at reviewing the available data on the Triclinium of the Nineteen couches. It is divided into three parts: the first is intended to overview the information that Byzantine authors have handed down to us about this great banquet hall; the second aims at proposing reconstructive hypotheses about its dimensions and architecture, as well as to investigate the material aspects related to the organisation of the banquet in late antiquity; the third part deals with the ceremonial functions that were performed in it. Contrary to what is usually assumed, the Triclinium was probably not a huge hall with nine apses on each side, but a rectangular hall with a final apse and akkoubita arranged along the perimeter walls. In terms of ritual, the Triclinium must have continued to be in use throughout the early Middle Ages, with a particular revival in the 10th century.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ildar Garipzanov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Sources Of Authority ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Periods

The concluding chapter highlights how the cultural history of graphic signs of authority in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages encapsulated the profound transformation of political culture in the Mediterranean and Europe from approximately the fourth to ninth centuries. It also reflects on the transcendent sources of authority in these historical periods, and the role of graphic signs in highlighting this connection. Finally, it warns that, despite the apparent dominant role of the sign of the cross and cruciform graphic devices in providing access to transcendent protection and support in ninth-century Western Europe, some people could still employ alternative graphic signs deriving from older occult traditions in their recourse to transcendent powers.

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