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Die vorliegende Studie fragt nach dem Selbstverständnis der gallo-römischen Oberschicht in der zweiten Hälfte des 5. bis zum Ende des 6. Jahrhunderts. In dieser Zeit der Neuordnung Galliens zwischen Imperium Romanum und der Bildung der Reiche der Visigoten, Burgunder und Franken gingen alte Gewissheiten verloren und neue entstanden, die Verfügungsmacht über materielle und immaterielle Ressourcen wechselte, Vorstellungen und Wahrnehmungsmuster änderten sich. Diese Dynamik spiegelt sich auch in der Veränderung des kulturellen, sozialen und politischen Wissens über die eigene gesellschaftliche Gruppe wider. Die römische Oberschicht Galliens erscheint trotz der Umwälzungen jedoch keineswegs rückwärtsgewandt oder konservativ. Vielmehr zeigten sich schon die epistolographischen Übergangsrömer des 5. Jahrhunderts pragmatisch in Bezug auf ihr Selbstverständnis, das im Verlauf der Untersuchungszeit hybride Formen annahm und schließlich lediglich latent weiterexistierte. Bei diesem Prozess wurde die romanitas von der Oberschicht zunehmend nicht mehr als ethnisch konnotiert wahrgenommen oder im historischen Diskursraum auf diese Weise dargestellt. The study examines the space of historical discourse in which the self-image of the Roman upper class developed in Gaul between West Roman Empire and the gentile regna. It analyzes the performative potential of textual sources from antiquity and the early Middle Ages. The investigation shows that from Sidonius Apollinaris until Gregory of Tours, romanitas underwent phases of transition, hybridity, and latency.

Early Middle Ages. --- Frühmittelalter. --- Gallien. --- Gaul. --- Römische Oberschicht. --- Spätantike. --- late antiquity. --- Gaul --- History.

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This book discusses medieval Rome, adorned as it was by 'Byzantine' art, monuments, and culture, as a city that defined both East and West.

Rome --- Civilization. --- Art, Roman --- HISTORY / Europe / Italy. --- Byzantine influences. --- Byzantine Art. --- Byzantium. --- Early Middle Ages. --- Mosaics. --- Rome. --- Roman art --- Classical antiquities --- Civilization --- Byzantine Empire

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This book presents a reconstruction of the socio-economic, ethnic, cultural, and political history of the Carpathian-Danubian area in the eighth and ninth centuries at a period when nomadic peoples from the east including the Bulgars, Avars, and Khazars migrated here. The work is based on a comprehensive analysis of narrative and archaeological sources including sites, artefacts, and goods in the basin bordered by the Tisza river in the west, the Danube in the south, and the Dniestr river in the east, covering swathes of modern-day Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Serbia, and Hungary.

Archaeology. --- Avars. --- Bulgars. --- Carpathian Mountains. --- Danube. --- Early Middle Ages. --- Khazars. --- Material Culture. --- Nomads. --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Balkan Peninsula --- Europe, Eastern --- Carpathian Mountains --- Carpates --- Carpathians --- Carpații --- Karpaty --- East Europe --- Eastern Europe --- Balkan States --- Balkans --- Europe, Southeastern --- Southeastern Europe --- History --- Civilization

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Journal promoting the study of the sculptural objects in clay from all periods and regions

Terra-cotta sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian --- Terra-cotta sculpture, Classical --- Terra-cotta sculpture, Egyptian --- Terra-cotta sculpture, Indic --- Terres cuites assyro-babyloniennes --- Terres cuites antiques --- Terres cuites égyptiennes --- Terres cuites de l'Inde --- Periodicals --- Périodiques --- History of religions --- Cultural history --- History of art --- Prehistory and Antiquity --- Early Middle Ages --- Terra-cotta sculpture --- Terra-cotta figurines --- Ceramic sculpture --- Clay figurines --- Ceramic sculpture. --- Clay figurines. --- Terra-cotta figurines. --- Terra-cotta sculpture. --- Terra-cottas --- Sculpture --- Figurines --- Figurines, Clay --- Pottery --- history of religions --- cultural history --- history of art --- prehistory and antiquity --- early middle ages

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When a Spanish monk struggled to find the right words to convey his unjust expulsion from a monastery in a desperate petition to a sixth-century king, he likened himself to an aborted fetus. Centuries later, a ninth-century queen found herself accused of abortion in an altogether more fleshly sense. Abortion haunts the written record across the early middle ages. Yet, the centuries after the fall of Rome remain very much the "dark ages" in the broader history of abortion.
This book, the first to treat the subject in this period, tells the story of how individuals and communities, ecclesiastical and secular authorities, construed abortion as a social and moral problem across a number of post-Roman societies, including Visigothic Spain, Merovingian Gaul, early Ireland, Anglo-Saxon England and the Carolingian empire. It argues early medieval authors and readers actively deliberated on abortion and a cluster of related questions, and that church tradition on abortion was an evolving practice. It sheds light on the neglected variety of responses to abortion generated by different social and intellectual practices, including church discipline, dispute settlement and strategies of political legitimation, and brings the history of abortion into conversation with key questions about gender, sexuality, Christianization, penance and law. Ranging across abortion miracles in hagiography, polemical letters in which churchmen likened rivals to fetuses flung from the womb of the church and uncomfortable imaginings of resurrected fetuses in theological speculation, this volume also illuminates the complex cultural significance of abortion in early medieval societies.

Zubin Mistry is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.

241.633 --- Theologische ethiek: abortus --- Abortion, Induced --- Women's Health --- Religion and Medicine --- Christianity --- History, Medieval --- Abortion --- Abortion. --- Abortus provocatus. --- Ethische aspecten. --- Sociale aspecten. --- Aborter --- Schwangerschaftsabbruch --- history --- History --- historia. --- To 1500. --- Medeltiden. --- Europe. --- Europa. --- Schwangerschaftsabbruch. --- Religion and Medicine. --- History, Medieval. --- history. --- 241.633 Theologische ethiek: abortus --- History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 500-799 --- anno 800-899 --- To 1500 --- Feticide --- Foeticide --- Induced abortion --- Pregnancy termination --- Termination of pregnancy --- Birth control --- Fetal death --- Obstetrics --- Reproductive rights --- Surgery --- Abortion in Early Middle Ages. --- Attitudes to Abortion. --- Carolingians. --- Church law. --- Cultural History. --- Early Middle Ages. --- Gender Studies. --- Gender. --- History of Abortion. --- Late Antiquity. --- Medieval History. --- Medieval West. --- Merovingians. --- Penance. --- Post-Roman history. --- Preaching. --- Religion. --- Religious history. --- Reproductive Health. --- Secular law. --- Sexuality. --- Social History. --- Theology. --- Visigothic Spain.