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Author : Gunivortus Goos
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3758375525
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (583 download)
Download or read book Nehalennia written by Gunivortus Goos and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter S. Wells
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843464
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Barbarians Speak written by Peter S. Wells and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record of their lives and were often dismissed as "barbarians" by the Romans who conquered them. Accounts by Julius Caesar and a handful of other Roman and Greek writers would lead us to think that prior to contact with the Romans, European natives had much simpler political systems, smaller settlements, no evolving social identities, and that they practiced human sacrifice. A more accurate, sophisticated picture of the indigenous people emerges, however, from the archaeological remains of the Iron Age. Here Peter Wells brings together information that has belonged to the realm of specialists and enables the general reader to share in the excitement of rediscovering a "lost people." In so doing, he is the first to marshal material evidence in a broad-scale examination of the response by the Celts and Germans to the Roman presence in their lands. The recent discovery of large pre-Roman settlements throughout central and western Europe has only begun to show just how complex native European societies were before the conquest. Remnants of walls, bone fragments, pottery, jewelry, and coins tell much about such activities as farming, trade, and religious ritual in their communities; objects found at gravesites shed light on the richly varied lives of individuals. Wells explains that the presence--or absence--of Roman influence among these artifacts reveals a range of attitudes toward Rome at particular times, from enthusiastic acceptance among urban elites to creative resistance among rural inhabitants. In fascinating detail, Wells shows that these societies did grow more cosmopolitan under Roman occupation, but that the people were much more than passive beneficiaries; in many cases they helped determine the outcomes of Roman military and political initiatives. This book is at once a provocative, alternative reading of Roman history and a catalyst for overturning long-standing assumptions about nonliterate and indigenous societies.
Author : Miranda Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134893930
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Symbol and Image in Celtic Religious Art written by Miranda Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical new interpretation of Celts and their way of life
Author : Ben Waggoner
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1941136214
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Heathen Garb and Gear: Ritual Dress, Tools, and Art for the Practice of Germanic Heathenry written by Ben Waggoner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Germanic tribes, Goths, and other Germanic-speaking tribes are renowned today in myth, legend, and popular culture. But how did they live? What did they wear? How did they worship? What did they eat? And how did their traditional ways of life reflect their spiritual beliefs? Heathen Garb and Gear takes you on a tour of the world that our forebears knew. More importantly, it shows you how their ways of dressing and living-from weaving woolen cloth and cooking food, to making music and taking steam baths-are reflected in the myths and traditions that have come down to us. Anyone who's ever wanted to wear Viking clothing, or serve authentic Viking feasts, will find plenty of practical tips here. But even if you're not interested in re-enacting the old ways, you'll find much vital information and inspiration for the practice of Heathenry as a living religious tradition.
Author : Steven J. Sutcliffe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351904817
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Religion: Empirical Studies written by Steven J. Sutcliffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treating 'religion' as a fully social, cultural, historical and material field of practice, this book presents a series of debates and positions on the nature and purpose of the 'Study of Religions', or 'Religious Studies'. Offering an introductory guide to this influential, and politically relevant, academic field, the contributors illustrate the diversity and theoretical viability of qualitative empirical methodologies in the study of religions. The historical and cultural circumstances attending the emergence, defence, and future prospects of Religious Studies are documented, drawing on theoretical material and case studies prepared within the context of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR), and making frequent reference to wider European, North American, and other international debates and critiques.
Author : Adam Rogers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004249753
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Water and Roman Urbanism written by Adam Rogers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain offers a new perspective for investigating Roman settlement and how urban spaces were created and experienced by focusing on the relationship between settlement and water and the meanings attributed to these places. Rather than a descriptive approach to the urban fabric it emphasises social context and cultural meaning through interpretative frameworks of analysis. Central are the cultural and experiential implications of water forming part of towns, rather than economic and practical arguments, and the way in which these places were used and altered over time. The book emphasises a social approach and has considerable implications for our understanding of life in the Roman period as a whole.
Author : Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719025792
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (257 download)
Download or read book Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe written by Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ton Derks
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789053562543
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Gods, Temples, and Ritual Practices written by Ton Derks and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bevölkerungsgeschichte - Gallien - Siedlungsgeschichte - Tempel - Ritus - Religion - Götter.
Author : Guus Besuijen
Publisher : Sidestone Press
ISBN 13 : 9088900167
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Rodanum written by Guus Besuijen and published by Sidestone Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the surface of Aardenburg, a small town in the south-western part of the Netherlands, lie the remains of a Roman settlement that is presumed to have been named Rodanum. Extensive archaeological excavations from the late 1950s to the late 1980s revealed that the settlement was similar in size or even larger than the modern town. Its centre was formed by a large castellum-type fortification wall that enclosed several large stone buildings. The settlement was connected to the sea by a natural watercourse that defined its economic and logistical importance in the region. Rodanum's military function was to secure the regional coast against attacks by Germanic tribes via the North Sea, which occurred around AD 175. It continued to be inhabited until the late third century or the beginning of the fourth century, after which the settlement was deserted until the early Middle Ages. The first part of this study provides an overview of Aardenburg during the Roman period, in which its economic and military functions within the region are explored. In particular, the military and civilian character of the town is discussed. The second part contains a study of the metal objects and aims to present significant additional information. This part concludes with a critical review of the current state of research at this site.
Author : Yves Bonnefoy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226064573
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book American, African, and Old European Mythologies written by Yves Bonnefoy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-05-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 80 articles on mythologies from around the world, including Native Americans, African, Celtic, Norse, and Slavic, and about such topics as fire, the cosmos, and creation. Also includes an overview of the Indo-Europeans and an essay on the religions and myths of Armenia. Illustrations.
Author : Malcolm Todd
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405137568
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Early Germans written by Malcolm Todd and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many centuries Germanic peoples occupied much of northern and central Europe. From the fourth century onward migrant groups extended their power and influence over much of western Europe and beyond to North Africa. In so doing, they established enduring states in France, Spain, Italy and Britain. This illustrated book makes use of archaeological and literary sources to outline the ethnogenesis and history of the early Germanic peoples. It provides an overview of current knowledge of these peoples, their social structure, settlements, trade, customs, religion, craftsmanship and relations with the Roman Empire. In this second edition, the author incorporates important new archaeological evidence and reports on advances in historical interpretation. In particular, he offers new insights into developments in central and eastern Europe and the implications for our understanding of migration and settlement patterns, ethnicity and identity. Ten new plates have been added featuring significant new sites discovered in recent years.
Author : Anneke Mulder-Bakker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134819420
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Sanctity and Motherhood written by Anneke Mulder-Bakker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, recent scholarship has focused on those married women and mothers in the Middle Ages who achieved holiness. The Merovingian Waldetrudis and Rictrudis; Ida, mother of the crusader king Godfrey of Bouillon; Elisabeth of Hungary and Bridget of Sweden are among them. Unlike Mary and her mother, Saint Anne (mother saints, whose sanctity was based on motherhood) these female parents were honored despite rather than because of their children. They were holy mothers, whose status as spouses and mothers gave them a public voice and opened for them the road to sanctification. They successfully combined marriage and motherhood with a religious life and functioned as holy women in their community. Despite increasing respect, tension between the roles of saint and wife persisted. Saintly women were not expected to be happily married: the ancient prejudice against sexual passion and physical ease mitigated the enjoyment of married life.The book's original essays focus on Northern Europe, where the cult of Saint Anne reached its climax around 1500. It does not explore Church doctrine and theology, as other studies do, but examines the religious experience of historical holy mothers and saints and how these women were perceived by their communities and their biographers.
Author : P J Casey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135782261
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Carausius and Allectus written by P J Casey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary episode in the history of Roman Britain has been brilliantly pieced together by John Casey, through a painstaking - and at times detective-like - sifting of the literary, archaeological and numismatic evidence.
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Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Mnemosyne written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susanne Luther
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110717514
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences written by Susanne Luther and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years. Some archaeologists and historians have applied globalization theories to ancient intercultural connections. Classicists have rediscovered travel as a literary topic in Greek and Roman writing. Scholars of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have been rethinking long-familiar pilgrimage practices in new interdisciplinary contexts. This volume contributes to this flourishing field of study in two ways. First, the focus of its contributions is on experiences of travel. Our main question is: How did travelers in the ancient world experience and make sense of their journeys, real or imaginary, and of the places they visited? Second, by treating Jewish, Christian, and Islamic experiences together, this volume develops a longue durée perspective on the ways in which travel experiences across these three traditions resembled each other. By focusing on "experiences of travel," we hope to foster interaction between the study of ancient travel in the humanities and that of broader human experience in the social sciences.
Author : Michael Pye
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605987530
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Edge of the World written by Michael Pye and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saints and spies, pirates and philosophers, artists and intellectuals: they all criss-crossed the grey North Sea in the so-called “dark ages,” the years between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of Europe’s mastery over the oceans. Now the critically acclaimed Michael Pye reveals the cultural transformation sparked by those men and women: the ideas, technology, science, law, and moral codes that helped create our modern world. This is the magnificent lost history of a thousand years. It was on the shores of the North Sea where experimental science was born, where women first had the right to choose whom they married; there was the beginning of contemporary business transactions and the advent of the printed book. In The Edge of the World, Michael Pye draws on an astounding breadth of original source material to illuminate this fascinating region during a pivotal era in world history.
Author : Karl A.E. Enenkel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004410651
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Ambitious Antiquities, Famous Forebears written by Karl A.E. Enenkel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph studies the constructions of ‘impressive’ historical descent manufactured to create ‘national’, regional, or local antiquities in early modern Europe (1500-1700), especially the Netherlands. This was a period characterised by important political changes and therefore by an increased need for legitimation; a need which was met using historical claims. Literature, scholarship, art and architecture were pivotal media that were used to furnish evidence of the impressively old lineage of states, regions or families. These claims related not only to Classical antiquity (in the generally-known sense) but also to other periods that were regarded as periods of antiquity, such as the chivalric age. The authors of this volume analyse these intriguing early modern constructions of appropriate “antiquities” and investigate the ways in which they were applied in political, intellectual and artistic contexts in Europe, especially in the Northern Low Countries. This book is a revised and augmented translation of Oudheid als ambitie: De zoektocht naar een passend verleden, 1400–1700 (Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2017).
