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Early Christian Fetal Burials in the Egyptian Western Desert in the Midst of Magic and Inhumation. Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Archäologie|Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Archäologie 27 27|
No full textTextual and archaeological evidence confirms the use of fetuses in sorcery and magic in Roman Egypt, a practice that early Christians continued. A papyrus from Karanis (Fayum oasis) and the cords used in wrapping buried fetuses confirm this assessment. Such cords of beads were wrapped around a fetus excavated in Kellis 2 cemetery (Dakhla oasis) and an infant discovered in el-Bagawat (Kharga oasis). However, the Christians showed more interest in burying their children, even their fetuses, irrespective of their magical use. This transformation is based on the Christian belief concerning the identification of the soul and body. Every fetus was carefully buried in the same manner as adults. The deceased fetus was individually wrapped and placed in a grave oriented east-west. Christian fetal burials were found in Dakhla and Kharga, two oases of the Egyptian western desert. In the Dakhla oasis, the Kellis 2 cemetery, north tomb 1, cemetery D 7, and House 4 (Area A) are the most prominent areas in which this type of grave was discovered. Concerning Kharga oasis, early Christian fetal burials were excavated in el-Bagawat necropolis. According to their architectural design, four types can be categorized: homeburials, pit graves, funerary mausolea, and finally enclosure graves
Byzanz und das Konzil zu Basel und Ferrara Neue Dokumente der Kaiser- sowie Patriarchatskanzlei und der Umgang mit Latein im Kontakt mit dem Westen (Byzantium and the Council of Basle and Ferrara. New Documents of the Imperial and Patriarchal Chanceries and the Use of Latin in Communication with the West). Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik|Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 70. Band|
No full textThe 1430s are best documented for the correspondence of the Byzantine emperor and the patriarch of Constantinoplewith the West. Due to several embassies to the Council of Basel and Pope Eugenius IV, a lot of respective documentsissued by the emperor and the patriarch were copied in the acts and document collections of the council, alongside only a feworiginal ones. This extraordinary accumulation of preserved texts allows us to study the language policy of the two chanceries,which generally differs in many regards, but underwent a significant development in the preparation of the Church Unionunder Emperor John VIII Palaeologus who supervised and controlled the outgoing documents of the patriarch. The investigationof the manuscript tradition could reveal new texts of the two chanceries, among them even one original sigillion of thepatriarch. These (and some already—uncritically—published) texts are presented here in a new critical edition
Understanding the Genesis of a Multi-Layered Byzantine Manuscript. The Illuminated Copy of Elias of Crete’s Commentary on Gregory Nazianzen (Basel, UB, AN I 8). Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik|Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 70. Band|
No full textIt has been widely agreed that the manuscript Basel, UB, AN I 8, featuring the second part of Elias of Crete’scommentary to the “unread” homilies of Gregory Nazianzen, was decorated with an impressive set of full-page illuminationsserving as frontispieces to each commentary in a second phase, sometime after the text and initial portraits had been copied.Karin Krause’s recent and well-documented article called for a re-examination of this book’s genetic history. The study herefocuses on several of its most surprising features, offering a fresh look and a hopefully more plausible explanation for theorigin and production process of these images
Inhalt. Akten der Gesellschaft für Griechische und Hellenistische Rechtsgeschichte|(28) Symposion 2019 Akten der Gesellschaft für griechische und hellenistische Rechtsgeschichte Band 28|
No full textContents. Orea|Archaeology of Central Asia during the 1st millennium BC, from the Beginning of the Iron age to the Hellenistic period Oriental and European Archaeology Volume 18|
No full textEngaging the United States Network of Biosphere Reserves in a changing social-political context. eco.mont (Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management)|eco.mont Vol. 13 special issue 2021|
No full textThe United States was an integral part of the early growth of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB), yet changing political and social contexts have impacted the relationship between the US and MAB. Poised at the start of a new period of activity, as the US reviews its strategy on its current and future engagement with MAB, it is critical to discuss the factors that have influenced the history of US involvement in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) and how the US will engage in the future. For the purpose of this article, the US Biosphere Network (USBN) refers to the current recently reinvigorated network of biosphere reserves in the US. As many of the USBN sites are partially or fully mountainous ecosystems, the renewed engagement of the USBN will contribute to the conservation of some of the nation’s most prized mountain landscapes. This article provides an overview of the biosphere reserve concept and of US involvement with the intergovernmental programme. We discuss challenges facing the USBN, including relevancy and inclusion, political relations with UNESCO, and perceptions of zoning. We present examples of opportunities and strategies that have been implemented by the Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Network in a mountain region, followed by conclusions on revisioning MAB in the US and globally for the next 50 years
Teil II DAS ALTE SÜDARABIEN. Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse|In Stein gemeisselte Geschichte(n): Nikolaus Rhodokanakis (1876‒1945), Pionier der Altsüdarabistik Sammlung Eduard Glaser 19|
No full textReframing Medieval Anatolia, Caucasia, and the Aegean: Narratives, States, and Cities. 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 textThere is no single totalising modern historiographical narrative for thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Anatolia, Caucasia, and the Aegean. The modern narration of this past is constituted by a collage of narratives, each of which is centred on specific state projects. This article sketches the limitations of the statist common sense that has framed the modern narration of this period, with specific reference to the two most prominent narratives, the decline of Byzantium and the rise of the Ottomans. It then outlines in broad terms the heuristic potential in replacing the state with the city as the foundational unit of analysis for the study of medieval Anatolia, Caucasia, and the Aegean. This approach is intended to build on the theoretical groundwork laid by the pioneers of a holistic medieval Anatolian studies and the increasing number and quality of studies centred on urban centres. The study finishes with a case study, examining the manner in which the failed siege of Attaleia/Antalya/Satalia in 1206 and the successful conquest of the city in 1207 have been integrated into and made meaningful within state-centric reconstructions of the history of the early thirteenth century. In particular, it demonstrates how the centring of these states emphasises elite male characters and obscures the roles played by the city’s population. This article is intended to set out a broad framework for the other, more fine-grained contributions to this thematic section
