MILLENNIUM
Studies in the History and Culture of the First Millennium C.E.
Band 1: Diokletian und die Tetrarchie. Aspekte einer Zeitenwende-
Diokletian and Tetrarchy. Aspects of a Turn of Times
Edited by Alexander Demandt, Andreas Goltz and
Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen
September 2004. X, 259 pages. 1 map. Hardcover.
? 78,00
ISBN 3-11-018230-0
Renowned scholars from Germany, Great Britain, Croa-tia, Slovenia and Switzerland contributed to an inter-national conference held in Split in 2003. Their papers collected here the present state of research on the Tetrarchy in its political, social, economic, ideological, historico-religious and archaeological aspects and on the reception of Diocletian up to modern times.
Band 2: Paideia
The World of the Second Sophistic
Edited by Barbara Borg
November 2004. vi, 494 pages. 119 fig. Cloth.
? 98.00
ISBN 3-11-018231-9
In the World of the Second Sophistic, education, paideia, was a crucial factor in the discourse of power. Knowledge in the fields of medicine, history, philosophy and poetry joined with rhetorical bril-liance and a sumptuary outer appearance became the habitus of the elite of the Eastern Roman Empire. This habitus garanteed both a high social status and political and economical power for the individual as well as major advantages for their hometowns in interpolis competition. Since paideia was related par-ticularly to Classical Greek antiquity it was, at the same time, fundamental to the new self-confidence of the Greek East. This book presents, for the first time, studies from a broad range of disciplines on various fields of life and on different media, in which this ideology became manifest. These contributions show that the Sophists and their texts were only the most prominent exponents of a system of thoughts and values structuring the life of the elite in general
Band 3: Dennis Pausch
Biographie und Bildungskultur / Biography and Culture of Education
Personendarstellungen bei Plinius dem Jüngeren, Gellius und Sueton-
Personal Portrayals in Pliny the Younger, Gellius, and Suetonius
Oktober 2004. X, 408 pages - hardcover
? 88,00
ISBN 3-11-018247-5
What role did biographies play for the intelligentsia
the 2nd century AD? What literary forms were used by contemporary authors in their personal portrayals?
These two questions have led to this cross-genre investigation of the personal portraits in the letters of Pliny the Younger, in the miscellaneous work of Gellius, and in the Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius.
Band 4: Matthias Kloft
Oratores vestri monent
Das Bischofsamt des karolingischen Reiches im Spiegel juristischer und theologischer Texte - The Post of the Bishop in the Carolingian Realm as Reflected in Juridical and Theological Texts
2005. Ca. 340 pages - hardcover
Ca. ? 74,00
ISBN 3-11-018246-7
Whereas to date comprehensive analyses of the Mero-wingian bishopric and the Ottonian imperial church have been published, the role of the Carolingian bishops so far has only been studied selectively. The present work, based on well-recognised sources, demonstrates that the genesis of the bishopric was to provide a central pillar to the Carolingian kingdom and its imperial rule.
Carolingian kingdom and its imperial rule.recognised sources, demonstrates that the genesis of the bishopric was to provide a central pillar to the Carolingian kingdom and its imperial rule. Carolingian bishops so far has only been studied selectively. The present work, based on well-recognised sources, demonstrates that the genesis of the bishopric was to provide a central pillar to the Carolingian kingdom and its imperial rule.
Band 5: Post-Roman Towns Trade and Settlement in Europe and Byzantium
Volume 1: The Heirs of the Roman West
Volume 2: Byzantium, Pliska, and the Balkans
Edited by Joachim Henning
2005. 2 vols. approx. 900 pages. Num figs. 34 coloured figs. Hardcover.
Approx. ? 158.00
ISBN 3-11-018357-9
Volume 1: Approx. 450 pages. Num. figs. 8 coloured plates. Cloth.
Approx. ? 88.00
ISBN 3-11-018356-0
Volume 2: Approx. 450 pages. Numeous figs. 16 coloured plates. Cloth.
Approx. ? 88.00
ISBN 3-11-018358-7
The ?disappearance of towns and trade? (Pirenne) has been considered synonymous with the ?Dark Ages? of Post-Roman Europe and Byzantium for decades. Now, the scholarly and public understanding of the European and Mediterranean history of the later half of the first millennium is going through a dramatic change due to new archaeological findings, greater scientific investigation, and a reappraisal of written sources.
Thus, economic archaeology and the history of the early Middle Ages are emerging as decisive fields in the debate on the role of this period in the ?origins of the European economy? (McCormick). In this book, leading international authorities analyse the structures and economic functions of non-agrarian centres between ca. 500 and 1000 A.D. - their trade, surrounding settlements, as well as, the agricultural and cultural milieux.
The thirty-one papers presented by contributors from England, France, Spain, Italy and Germany at an international conference held in Bad Homburg focus on recent archaeological disco-veries in Central Europe (Vol. 1), as well as, those in southeastern Europe and Asia Minor (Vol. 2).
They are supplemented by the first broad survey of the results of recent fieldwork in The Pliska Project, which sheds new light on Europe?s biggest town-like agglomerations of the 8th and 9th centuries.
Band 6: Thomas Pratsch
Der hagiographische Topos - The Hagiographic Topos
Griechische Heiligenviten in mittelbyzantinischer Zeit / Greek Lives of Saints in Middle Byzantine Times
2005. XLVIII, 513 pages - hardcover
? 108,00
ISBN 3-11-018439-7
This is the first systematic study of literary formulae (topoi) in Greek medieval lives of the saints. Pratsch compiles a comprehensive systematic catalogue of the topoi and in his evaluation of them provides new insights into the genesis, transmission and historical development of the genre of Greek saints' vitae.
Band 7: Life and Works of Saint Gregentios, Archbishop of Taphar
Introduction, Critical Edition and Translation by Albrecht Berger
With a Contribution by Gianfranco Fiaccadori
2005. Approx. 880 pages. Cloth.
Approx. ? 128.00
ISBN 3-11-018445-1
On the occasion of a forced baptism of Jews in Byzantium in the late 9th century, an anonymous author wrote the fictitious account of a religious dia-logue between Archbishop Gregentios and the Jewish scribe Herban and inserted it into a life of his hero based on earlier sources, which makes of him a mis-sionary in Yemen in pre-Islamic times. Albrecht Berger examines and translates these texts, and he presents a critical edition of them.
Key Features
· first edition of a large proportion of the extant texts
· critical edition using all known manuscripts, including those which only recently have been discovered
Band 8: Johannes Fried
"Donation of Constantine" and "Constitutum Constantini"
The Misinterpretation of a Fiction and its Original Meaning
2005. Approx. 200 pages. Cloth.
Approx. ? 68.00 / sFr 109.00 / *US$ 95.20
ISBN 3-11-018539-3
Of interest to: Scholars, Libraries, Academic Departments
The Donation of Constantine is the most outrageous and powerful forgery in world history. The question of its precise time of origin alone kept generations of researchers occupied. But, what exactly is the Donation of Constantine? To find the answer, it is necessary to approach the question on two different semantic levels: First, as the Constitutum Constantini, a fictitious privilege, in which, among other things, rights and presents were bestowed on the catholic church by a grateful Emperor Konstantin. Secondly, as a reflection of the Middle Age mindset, becoming part of the culture landscape midway through 11th century AD. The author not only reinterprets the origin of this forgery (i.e. puts it down to the Franks' opposition of Emperor Louis the Pious), but retells, as well, the history of its misinterpretation since the High Middle Ages.
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