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(0)Walter Pohl
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Karl Valentin once asked: "How can it be that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day?" He focussed on the problem that information of the past has to be organised, arranged and above all: selected and put into form in order to be perceived as a whole. In this sense, the process of selection must be seen as the fundamental moment - the "Urszene" - of making History. This book shows selection as highly creative act. With the richness...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Die zwanzig Beiträge des Sammelbandes gehen auf eine von Uta Heil und Volker Drecoll veranstaltete Tagung zu "Formation of European Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages" in Wien 2017 zurück. Sie stellen wichtige theologische Diskurse und Entscheidungen vor, die Kirche, Gesellschaft und Regentschaft prägten, und behandeln die zeitgenössischen Vorstellungen von Ethnien und Regionen, die Bedeutung des gehobenen Lateins, erkennbare...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
1. Aufl.
Description
How is ethnicity viewed by scholars of different academic disciplines? Can its emergences be compared in various regions of the world? How can it be conceptualized with specific reference to distinct historical periods?This book shows in a uniquely and innovative way the broad range of approaches to the political uses of ethnicity, both in contemporary settings and from a historical perspective. Its scope is multidisciplinary and spans across the...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Roman identity is one of the most interesting cases of social identity because in the course of time, it could mean so many different things: for instance, Greek-speaking subjects of the Byzantine empire, inhabitants of the city of Rome, autonomous civic or regional groups, Latin speakers under 'barbarian' rule in the West or, increasingly, representatives of the Church of Rome. Eventually, the Christian dimension of Roman identity gained ground....