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Table of Contents. Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse|Cultural Politics, Transfer, and Propaganda. Mediated Narratives and Images in Austrian-American Relations Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 916. Band|
No full text»These are the narratives of bygone years«: Conquest of a Fortress as a Source of Legitimacy. Medieval Worlds|Urban Agencies: Reframing Anatolian and Caucasian Cities (13th-14th Centuries) & Movement and Mobility in the Medieval Mediterranean: Changing Perspectives from Late Antiquity to the Long-Twelfth Century, II - Volume 14. 2021 medieval worlds Volume 14. 2021|
No full textIn 1502 or 1503 Kemāl paşa-zāde (d. 1534), also known as Ibn-i Kemāl, the future Şeyh’ül-İslam (chief Muslim judge) under Sulaymān the Magnificent, described the world of Byzantium which the Ottomans had conquered. There, he reproduced the realia of the »fortress past« of the Ottomans. Ibn-i Kemāl described Byzantium as a commonwealth of fortresses, each headed by a tekvur (»emperor«), which was at odds with historical accuracy. This pointed to the period of the second half of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth century as a time of transition, when the cities in the frontier zone in Anatolia were sometimes reduced to the size of a fortress, and their inhabitants were forced to find a new location. The extant tales about the initial fortress, from which a new state formation (beylik) had begun, and the stories about the conquests of the chain of neighboring fortresses, per se reflected the growing importance of the small cities as chief colonization centers in the boundary zone in Asia Minor. The vision of the »fortresses’ past«, still remembered at the time of Sulaymān the Magnificent, even affected the imperial aspirations of the Ottomans and their self-representation as the new masters of the conquered lands
Vorausschätzungen für die Entwicklung der Gesamtbevölkerung und der Beschäftigung in Österreich bis 2035
No full textThis paper investigates the future development of the Austrian population for the periodfrom 2005 to 2035. The main focus of our investigation lies on the working age populationand its age structure. Our calculations are based on the population projection released byStatistik Austria in 2005. We present three different scenarios with respect to age specificlabour force participation rates and discuss their impact on the Austrian labour force. Weshow that both the main variant and the low migration variant of the population projectionallow for an annual increase in the total size of labour force of 0.3% until the end of ourobservation period by applying labour force participation rates which are already put intopractice in the Nordic countries. An increase in labour force participation rates does notonly help to maintain an increase in the labour force but also leads to a more homogenousage distribution of the labour force
Where the Long Way Ends: Descriptions of the Mediterranean Sea and Holy Land and the Criticism of Crusading at the Court of Henry II of England (1154-1189). Medieval Worlds|Urban Agencies: Reframing Anatolian and Caucasian Cities (13th-14th Centuries) & Movement and Mobility in the Medieval Mediterranean: Changing Perspectives from Late Antiquity to the Long-Twelfth Century, II - Volume 14. 2021 medieval worlds Volume 14. 2021|
No full textThe purpose of this essay is to explore Gerald of Wales’s Topographia Hibernica and Walter Map’s De Nugis Curialium, to assess how the authors treated and described the Mediterranean space, with particular reference to the Holy Land. The selected texts are often cited as typical of the style of literary production that took place at the court of Henry II of England (1154-1189) and of the strong correspondence that existed between the policies of the English king and the works of his courtiers. The first version of the Topographia Hibernica was written between 1186-1188 and is the first treatise on Ireland composed by a non-Irish author. The De Nugis Curialium, a collection of satirical invectives, folktales, and personal experiences, was written during the latter half of the twelfth century. In their respective texts, Gerald of Wales and Walter Map focus primarily on topics regarding the British Isles. Noticeably, however, both writers make relevant digressions in order to report information about Sicily, Greece and the Holy Land, and that both authors witnessed the arrival of the patriarch of Jerusalem in London. The present article has two goals: first, bearing in mind Henry II’s reluctance as a response to possible crusade, the aim of this analysis is to see if and how the descriptions of the Mediterranean space coincided with Henry II’s reluctance to travel to Jerusalem. The second aim is to show how such descriptions accorded with the structure of both works and, in particular, how they might serve the authors’ specific interests beyond their adherence to Henry II’s policies
Un nuovo complesso episcopale nel Corno d’Africa di età tardo antica? Gli scavi del Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana ad Adulis (Eritrea): 2018–2020. Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Archäologie|Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Archäologie 27 27|
No full textSince 2018 the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana (Rome) is in charge of the excavation of one of the churches of the Aksumite town of Adulis, in the Red Sea coastline, in present day Eritrea. The aim of this paper is to present the new archaeological data coming from the recent excavations in the so-called “Church of the British Museum”, discovered in 1868 by Captain Goodfellow. New excavations run from 2018 onwards have led to highlight the biggest church known so far in Adulis, probably the ecclesia episcopalis. It stands as a 30 meters long building, which follows the typical Aksumite architectural layout. Also, the great quantity of decorated marbles coming from the church are of great interest, revealing important contacts with Yemen and Byzantium, mostly in the 6th century. The new archaeological data will be contextualized in the wider scenario of the rise and establishment of early Christianity in the Aksumite kingdom
Komparative Zeitreihenanalyse der lexikalischen Stabilität und Emotion in österreichischen Korpusdaten
No full textAnhand von zwei unterschiedlich aufgebauten Textkorpora wird untersucht, inwiefern sich lexikalischer Gebrauch und der emotionale Gehalt im Diskurs über politische Parteien in österreichischen Zeitungsbeiträgen und im Diskurs der Parteien selbst in ihren Reden vor dem österreichischen Nationalrat über die Zeit verändern. Welche Charakteristika des Diskurses verändern sich, auf welche Faktoren sind diese Dynamiken zurückzuführen und kann dies kontrastiv anhand von unterschiedlich aufgebauten Textkorpora untersucht werden? Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird anhand zweier Teilstudien diesen Fragen nachgegangen. Die beiden Teilstudien wenden eine komparative Zeitreihenanalyse an, um die Dynamiken lexikalischer Stabilität und emotionalen Gehalts im typischen Wortgebrauch dreier österreichischer Parteien herauszuarbeiten. Für komparative Untersuchungen werden üblicherweise Vergleichskorpora verwendet; in dieser Studie wird hingegen auf sehr unterschiedlich aufgebaute diachrone Korpora zurückgegriffen: Das Austrian Media Corpus (AMC) und das Korpus der Österreichischen Parlamentsprotokolle (ParlAT). Um die Textkorpora, welche sich in ihrer Textsorte und Größe deutlich unterscheiden, als Datenbasis für die komparative Analyse nutzen zu können, wird in diesem Beitrag auf die notwendige spezielle Datenaufbereitung eingegangen und gezeigt, dass wenig datenintensive (insbesondere unüberwachte) Methoden zur quantitativen Messung von diachronen Dynamiken lexikalischen Gebrauchs eingesetzt werden können. Auf diese Weise werden auch kleine Datenmengen nutzbar gemacht. Exemplarisch werden die Methoden auf den politischen Diskurs von und über österreichische Parlamentsparteien angewandt, wobei insbesondere durch Kombination zweier psychologischer Maße (Valenz und Erregung) Rückschlüsse auf den emotionalen Status des jeweiligen Diskurses gezogen werden könne
