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Writing Beyond Pen and Parchment : Inscribed Objects in Medieval European Literature
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ISBN: 3110645440 3110645432 3110645718 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter

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What can stories of magical engraved rings or prophetic inscriptions on walls tell us about how writing was perceived before print transformed the world? Writing beyond Pen and Parchment introduces readers to a Middle Ages where writing is not confined to manuscripts but is inscribed in the broader material world, in textiles and tombs, on weapons or human skin. Drawing on the work done at the Collaborative Research Centre "Material Text Cultures," (SFB 933) this volume presents a comparative overview of how and where text-bearing artefacts appear in medieval German, Old Norse, British, French, Italian and Iberian literary traditions, and also traces the paths inscribed objects chart across multiple linguistic and cultural traditions. The volume's focus on the raw materials and practices that shaped artefacts both mundane or fantastical in medieval narratives offers a fresh perspective on the medieval world that takes seriously the vibrancy of matter as a vital aspect of textual culture often overlooked.


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Materialität und Präsenz spätantiker Inschriften : Eine Studie zum Wandel der Inschriftenkultur in den italienischen Provinzen
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ISBN: 3110633566 3110633825 3110633272 Year: 2020 Publisher: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter

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Eine der jüngeren Erkenntnisse der antiken Epigraphik besteht darin, dass Inschriften nicht nur Texte, sondern zugleich materielle Objekte sind, die ihre Wirkung durch ihre Materialität und Präsenz entfalten. Diese Einsicht hat bislang zwar zu vielen Einzelstudien geführt, die bestimmte Inschriftengruppen oder -räume fokussiert haben - sie wurde bislang aber nicht systematisch, eine größere Region und eine gesamte Epoche betreffend angewendet. Diese Lücke will Katharina Bolle füllen, indem sie sich der gewandelten Inschriftenkultur der Spätantike widmet. Mit Blick auf die italische Halbinsel werden die Phänomene dieses Wandels präzise beschrieben, analysiert und in einem weiteren historischen Rahmen erklärt. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei auf der materialen Beschaffenheit und der räumlichen Präsentation der Inschriften, wodurch dem textbasierten Zugriff epigraphischer Untersuchungen ein neuartiger Zugang an die Seite gestellt wird, der auch Aussagen zur antiken Wahrnehmung und Rezeption inschriftlicher Monumente zulässt. Dem in der Forschung vorherrschenden Paradigma einer im Niedergang befindlichen Inschriftenkultur der Spätantike wird so ein wesentliches differenzierteres Bild entgegengesetzt, welches das innovative und kreative Potential dieser Epoche herausarbeitet und betont. That inscriptions are not only texts but also material objects of specific materiality and presence is one of the recent central insights of ancient epigraphy. This understanding is applied here for the first time systematically, across different regions and over an entire epoch, by examining the change in the inscriptions culture in late antiquity with a view of the Italian peninsula.


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Epidicus by Plautus : An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation.
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ISBN: 9781800642867 9781800642874 9781800646605 1800642865 Year: 2021 Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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This parallel edition in both Latin and English, with its accessible introduction and comprehensive notes, guides the reader through this popular Roman play. Tracy explores Epidicus's roots in Greek drama, its rich social resonances for a Roman audience and its life in performance. She transforms Plautus' colloquial Latin poetry into lively modern English prose, illuminating the play's many comedic references to the world of the Roman republic.


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Rural Granaries in Northern Gaul (Sixth Century BCE - Fourth Century CE) : From Archaeology to Economic History
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ISBN: 9004389040 9004389032 Year: 2019 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands : Brill,

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In recent years, storage has come to the fore as a central aspect of ancient economies. However studies have hitherto focused on urban and military storage. Although archaeological excavations of rural granaries are numerous, their evidence has yet to be fully taken into account. Such is the ambition of Rural Granaries in Northern Gaul (Sixth Century BCE – Fourth Century CE) . Focusing on northern Gaul, this volume starts by discussing at length the possibility of quantifying storage capacities and, through them, agrarian production. Building on this first part, the second half of the book sketches the evolution of rural storage in Gaul from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity, setting firmly archaeological evidence in the historical context of the Roman Empire.


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The impact of mobility and migration in the Roman empire : proceedings of the twelfth workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Rome, June 17-19, 2015)
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ISBN: 9004334807 9789004334809 9004334777 9789004334779 Year: 2017 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Following on previous workshops of the Impact of Empire network which looked at frontiers (Impact 9), integration (Impact 10) and the world(s) beyond the borders of the Roman empire (Impact 11), the twelfth meeting of the network focused on movement within the Roman world. The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire assembles a series of papers on key themes in the study of Roman mobility and migration. It discusses legal frameworks, the mobility of the army (both at war and in peace-time), ethnic identity, the mobility of women, the mobility of senators, diplomatic mobility, war-induced mobility, and deportations. The papers vary in geographical scope, ranging from empire-wide approaches to reconstructions of patterns at particular sites. It employs a rich variety of sources, ranging from classical authors to documentary papyri, from legal sources to shipwrecks.


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Empires of the sea : maritime power networks in world history
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ISBN: 9789004407664 9004407669 9789004407671 9004407677 Year: 2020 Volume: 4 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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"Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly 'non-western' perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean." -- Back cover.


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The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages : Form and Content
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ISBN: 9783110644838 3110644835 3110645122 3110645203 Year: 2020 Volume: 28 Publisher: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter

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In the Middle Ages, rolls were ubiquitous as a writing support. While scholars have long examined the texts and images on rolls, they have rarely taken the manuscripts themselves into account. This volume readdresses this imbalance by focusing on the materiality and various usages of rolls in late medieval England and France. Researchers from England, France, Germany and Singapore demonstrate in 11 contributions how this approach can increase our understanding of the rolls and their contents, as well as the contexts in which they were produced and used.


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Integration in Rome and in the Roman world : proceedings of the Tenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Lille, June 23-25, 2011)
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ISBN: 9004256679 Year: 2013 Publisher: Brill

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Integration in the empire under the political control of the city of Rome, her princeps, and the different authorities in the provinces and cities includes processes of inclusion and exclusion. These multifaceted processes take place at various levels in society and at different places, over a long period of time. In this volume, these processes are analysed and reflected on from different perspectives. Juridical, political, social and religious points of view are articulated, elaborating on epigraphic, literary, juridical and numismatic evidence. Notions of personal and collective identities have been linked to relevant Roman realia, so that various contents of Romanitas can be defined through contextualization.


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The impact of justice on the Roman Empire : proceedings of the thirteenth workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Gent, June 21-24, 2017) / edited by Olivier Hekster, Koenraad Verboven.
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ISBN: 9004400478 9789004400450 9004400451 Year: 2019 Volume: 34 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff,

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The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire discusses ways in which notions, practice and the ideology of justice impacted on the functioning of the Roman Empire. The papers assembled in this volume follow from the thirteenth workshop of the international network Impact of Empire. They focus on what was considered just in various groups of Roman subjects, how these views were legitimated, shifted over time, and how they affected policy making and political, administrative, and judicial practices. Linking all of the papers are three common themes: the emperor and justice, justice in a dispersed empire and differentiation of justice.


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The afterlife of Apuleius
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ISBN: 1905670958 9781905670956 9781905670963 1905670966 Year: 2021 Publisher: London

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Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection of essays is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, linguistics and philology, within a wide geographical scope. The volume gathers the proceedings of an international conference held in March 2016 at the Warburg Institute in London, in association with the Institute of Classical Studies. It includes both diachronic overviews and specific case-studies. A first series of papers focuses on The Golden Ass and its historical and geographical diffusion, from High Medieval Europe to early modern Mexico. The oriental connections of the book are also taken into account. The second part of the book examines the textual and visual destiny of Psyche’s story from the Apuleian fabula to allegorical retellings, in poetical or philosophical books and on stage. As the third series of essays indicates, the fortunes of the book led many ancient and early modern writers and translators to use it as a canonical model for reflections about the status of fiction. It also became, mostly around the beginning of the fifteenth century, a major linguistic and stylistic reference for lexicographers and neo-Latin writers : the last papers of the book deal with Renaissance polemics about ‘Apuleianism’ and the role of editors and commentators.

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