Download or read book The Goths in Poland where Did They Come from and when Did They Leave written by Przemysław Urbańczyk and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northern Gold written by Audron? Bliujien? and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thi study presents a systematic analysis of the huge, and in most cases, completely new archaeological evidence for amber from Lithuania and the surrounding regions. A comprehensive synthesis of archaeological evidence and written sources provides an opportunity to develop new viewpoints about the sources of amber, extraction methods and amber-wearing.
Download or read book The Barbarians written by Peter Bogucki and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the Stone Age and continuing through the collapse of the Roman empire, a fascinating exploration of the increasing complexity, technological accomplishments, and distinctive practices of the non-literate peoples known as Barbarians. We often think of the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome as discrete incubators of Western culture, places where ideas about everything from government to art to philosophy were free to develop and then be distributed outward into the wider Mediterranean world. But as Peter Bogucki reminds us in this book, Greece and Rome did not develop in isolation. All around them were rural communities who had remarkably different cultures, ones few of us know anything about. Telling the stories of these nearly forgotten people, he offers a long-overdue enrichment of how we think about classical antiquity. As Bogucki shows, the lands to the north of the Greek and Roman peninsulas were inhabited by non-literate communities that stretched across river valleys, mountains, plains, and shorelines from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east. What we know about them is almost exclusively through archeological finds of settlements, offerings, monuments, and burials—but these remnants paint a portrait that is just as compelling as that of the great literate, urban civilizations of this time. Bogucki sketches the development of these groups’ cultures from the Stone Age through the collapse of the Roman Empire in the west, highlighting the increasing complexity of their societal structures, their technological accomplishments, and their distinct cultural practices. He shows that we are still learning much about them, as he examines new historical and archeological discoveries as well as the ways our knowledge about these groups has led to a vibrant tourist industry and even influenced politics. The result is a fascinating account of several nearly vanished cultures and the modern methods that have allowed us to rescue them from historical oblivion.
Download or read book The Well Spring of the Goths written by Ingemar Nordgren and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Goths-a rumored people first known by history around the river Vistula in present Poland-was the people that more than other contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. It was however also the Goths who preserved the Roman culture against other Germanic tribes. Earlier it has been generally assumed the Goths originated in Scandinavia but during the 20th c. many scholars have grown skeptical. The author has, using both Classical and Nordic sources and supplementary sciences, made probable there is an intimate connection between the Goths and the Nordic countries. Consequently it is quite possible that at least part of the Goths have a Nordic origin. The book rests on the basic hypothesis that the Goths are not a people but a number of tribes and peoples united through a common religious/cultic origin. The old dispute concerning the relationship between Svear and Gautar also gets quite a new meaning. The book is interdisciplinary and embraces history, religion, arts, linguistics and archaeology. In 1999 Ingemar Nordgren received his Ph.D. at Odense University, Denmark The book builds to a considerable extent on his dissertation but has been updated and partly rewritten with brand new material.
Download or read book The Oxford Gothic Grammar written by D. Gary Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Gothic, the earliest attested language of the Germanic family (apart from runic inscriptions), dating to the fourth century. The bulk of the extant Gothic corpus is a translation of the Bible, of which only a portion remains, and which has been the focus of most previous works. This book is the first in English to also draw on the recently discovered Bologna fragment and Crimean graffiti, original Gothic texts that provide more insights into the language. Following an overview of the history of the Goths and the origin of the Gothic language, Gary Miller explores all the major topics in Gothic grammar, beginning with the alphabet and phonology, and proceeding through subjects such as case functions, prepositions and particles, compounding, derivation, and verbal and sentential syntax. He also presents a selection of Gothic texts with notes and vocabulary, and ends with a chapter on linearization, including an overview of Gothic in its Germanic context. The Oxford Gothic Grammar will be an invaluable reference for all Indo-Europeanists, Germanic scholars, and historical linguists, from advanced undergraduate level upwards.
Download or read book The Roman and the Teuton A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Cambridge written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cassiodorus Jordanes and the History of the Goths written by Arne Søby Christensen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study in the myth of the origins and early history of the Goths as told in the Getica written by Jordanes in AD 551. Jordanes claimed they emigrated from the island of Scandza (Sweden) in 1490 BC, thus giving them a history of more than two thousand years. He found this narrative in Cassiodorus' Gothic history, which is now lost. The present study demonstrates that Cassiodorus and Jordanes did not base their accounts on a living Gothic tradition of the past, as the Getica would have us believe. On the contrary, they got their information only from the Graeco-Roman literature. The Greeks and Romans, however, did not know of the Goths until the middle of the third century AD. Consequently, Cassiodorus and Jordanes created a Gothic history partly through an erudite exploitation of the names of foreign peoples, and partly by using the narratives about other peoples' history as if they belonged to the Goths. The history of the Migrations therefore must be reconsidered.
Download or read book The Origin and Deeds of the Goths written by Active 6th century Jordanes and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordanes, an active writer in the 6th century, penned 'The Origin and Deeds of the Goths' as a crucial piece of early Gothic history. Written in a straightforward and informative style, this book provides a detailed account of the origins, culture, and conquests of the Goths. Jordanes draws upon various sources, including the works of Cassiodorus, to narrate the history of this influential Germanic tribe in the context of the declining Roman Empire. His work serves as a valuable resource for scholars of both Gothic history and late antiquity literature. Jordanes' meticulous attention to detail and unbiased presentation make this book a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the complex interactions between barbarian and Roman societies in the 6th century. Overall, 'The Origin and Deeds of the Goths' is a compelling read that sheds light on a lesser-known aspect of ancient history and provides valuable insights into the world of the Goths.
Download or read book Protestantism in Poland written by Charles E. Edwards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Protestantism in Poland: A Brief Study of Its History as an Encouragement to Mission Work Among the Poles The Poles belong to the great Slavonic race, which includes a majority Of the inhabitants in the Austrian and Russian empires, besides myriads of others in provinces subject to the Turk, and in kingdoms newly freed from his rule. The Polish people may be traced as far back as the sixth century At the time when all the lands forming the jagged margin of the Mediterranean were included in the vast empire Of the Roman Caesars, the Slave hians were decidedly the most numerous Of the four stock-races which divided amongst them the rest Of Europe - the Celts in the west, the Goths in the middle and north, the Slavonians in the east, and the Ugrians or Firms in the extreme circumpolar regions. Physically, they are a well-formed race, taller than the Celts, with complexions as fair or nearly as fair as the Goths, and with hair brown or reddish, but seldom black. Contrasted with the Goths they are what physiologists call brachy-ce phalic, - that is, their heads were proportionally broader across, and less deep from front to back. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book THREE KINGDOMS written by John Michael Wansor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is how a reporter from Egypt presents the problems facing Europe and the United States today using the third century as a mirror. as in the real world many people paranoid and are obsessed with spying on each other. As an Arab from Egypt the reporter experiences a cultural crisis which is not restricted to the language or physical move. He also has to deal with becoming wealth overnight. There are many comical events with the Professor working at CERN, the mysterious Madam Ni one of the richest women in the world, Doctor Lu who is also a martial arts master from China, Feldweibel Wilhelm Wallis who had spent most of his military service as a member of the Vatican Guard, and Brother Francis a monk at the local Abbey who is the gardener and unofficial historian. Combination of history science, Christianity, and world events; both historical and current bite by bite unravels the tangled knots in the series of events that have produced our modern version of Chaos. The answers are in the facts.
Download or read book Memoirs of the Polish Baroque written by Jan Chryzostom Pasek and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Download or read book The North in the Old English Orosius written by Irmeli Valtonen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vikings and Goths written by Gary Dean Peterson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vikings descended upon Europe at the close of the 8th century, invading the continent's western seas and river systems, trading, raiding and spreading terror. In the north, they settled Iceland and Greenland and reached North America. In the east, Swedish Varangians established a river road to the Orient. With the collapse of the Viking commercial empire, Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries struggled to survive, their hardships exacerbated by internal strife, foreign domination and the Black Death. This book details the development of Scandinavia--Sweden in particular--from the end of the Ice Age, through a series of prehistoric cultures, the Bronze and Iron ages, to the Viking period and late Middle Ages. Recent research suggests a Swedish origin of the Goths, who helped dismember the Roman Empire, and evidence of Swedish participation in the western Viking expeditions. Special attention is given to Eastern Europe, where Sweden dominated commerce through the conquest of trade towns and the river systems of Russia.
Download or read book The Goths written by Arthur A. Jones; Robin Wiseman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: March and live with the Gothic tribes as they soar across Europe and struggle against their enemies. Join them in their battles, their joys and sorrows, the horrific wars against the Roman Empire and their search for a permanent homeland. These are stories told by the Goths themselves, each in his or her own words, placing you in their midst as a first-hand observer of one of the most violent epochs of change in European history.
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Download or read book Mobile Technologies in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond written by C. N. Duckworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines key technological innovations, knowledge transfer, connectivity and social meaning in the ancient and Medieval Sahara.
Download or read book Eagles in the Dust written by Adrian Coombs-Hoar and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In AD376 large groups of Goths, seeking refuge from the Huns, sought admittance to the Eastern Roman Empire. Emperor Valens took the strategic decision to grant them entry, hoping to utilize them as a source of manpower for his campaigns against Persia. The Goths had been providing good warriors to Roman armies for decades. However, mistreatment of the refugees by Roman officials led them to take up arms against their hosts. The resultant battle near Adrianopolis in AD378, in which Valens lost his life, is regarded as one of the most significant defeats ever suffered by Roman arms. The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus called it the worst massacre since Cannae, nearly six hundred years previously. Modern historians have accorded it great significance both at a tactical level, due to the success of Gothic cavalry over the vaunted Roman infantry, and in strategic terms, often citing it as the beginning of the end for the Empire. Adrian Coombs-Hoar untangles the debate that still surrounds many aspects such claims with an insightful account that draws on the latest research.
