The Well Spring Of The Goths

Author : Ingemar Nordgren
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fornnordisk religion
ISBN : 9780595336487

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The Well Spring of the Goths by Ingemar Nordgren Pdf

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.

Author : Arthur A. Jones; Robin Wiseman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440138027

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The Goths by Arthur A. Jones; Robin Wiseman Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Rix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317589693

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The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination by Robert Rix Pdf

This book examines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting interpretations. To Christian Europe, the pagan North was an abject Other, but it also symbolized a place from which ancestral strength and energy derived. Rix maps how these discourses informed ‘national’ legends of ancestral origins, showing how an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend can be found in works by several familiar writers including Jordanes, Bede, ‘Fredegar’, Paul the Deacon, Freculph, and Æthelweard. The book investigates how legends of northern warriors were first created in classical texts and since re-calibrated to fit different medieval understandings of identity and ethnicity. Among other things, the ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ tale was exploited to promote a legacy of ‘barbarian’ vigor that could withstand the negative cultural effects of Roman civilization. This volume employs a variety of perspectives cutting across the disciplines of poetry, history, rhetoric, linguistics, and archaeology. After years of intense critical interest in medieval attitudes towards the classical world, Africa, and the East, this first book-length study of ‘the North’ will inspire new debates and repositionings in medieval studies.

Author : Edward Pettit
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783748303

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The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' by Edward Pettit Pdf

The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf. This meticulously researched book investigates the nature and significance of this golden-hilted weapon and its likely relatives within Beowulf and beyond, drawing on the fields of Old English and Old Norse language and literature, liturgy, archaeology, astronomy, folklore and comparative mythology. In Part I, Pettit explores the complex of connotations surrounding this image (from icicles to candles and crosses) by examining a range of medieval sources, and argues that the giant sword may function as a visual motif in which pre-Christian Germanic concepts and prominent Christian symbols coalesce. In Part II, Pettit investigates the broader Germanic background to this image, especially in relation to the god Ing/Yngvi-Freyr, and explores the capacity of myths to recur and endure across time. Drawing on an eclectic range of narrative and linguistic evidence from Northern European texts, and on archaeological discoveries, Pettit suggests that the image of the giant sword, and the characters and events associated with it, may reflect an elemental struggle between the sun and the moon, articulated through an underlying myth about the theft and repossession of sunlight. The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' is a welcome contribution to the overlapping fields of Beowulf-scholarship, Old Norse-Icelandic literature and Germanic philology. Not only does it present a wealth of new readings that shed light on the craft of the Beowulf-poet and inform our understanding of the poem’s major episodes and themes; it further highlights the merits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach alongside a comparative vantage point. As such, The Waning Sword will be compelling reading for Beowulf-scholars and for a wider audience of medievalists.

Author : Emőd Veress
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783031221668

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Constitutional History of Transylvania by Emőd Veress Pdf

This book examines the constitutional history of Transylvania, a region of Central Europe that has experienced a compelling series of historical events and been governed by a variety of ancient, medieval, and modern entities, as well as its own peoples, who from time to time have jointly or separately exercised their right to self-governance. The book’s main goal is to provide, for the first time in English, a comprehensive source for those interested in the variety of states, constitutional and public legal orders which have succeeded one another during Transylvania’s tumultuous history. It serves to underline the region’s uniqueness as a space where (for better or worse) several nationalities, multiple religions and varied cultures have had to find a way to get along, under the pressures of external state and constitutional orders. It seeks to show both the positive and the negative solutions found, which advanced or hindered this goal of organised coexistence.

Author : Václav Blažek
Publisher : Masarykova univerzita
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9788028003586

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Old Germanic Languages by Václav Blažek Pdf

Monografie sestává ze dvou hlavních a dvou doplňkových částí. První část přináší nejstarší lingvistické, epigrafické a archeologické informace o raných uživatelích germánských jazyků. Druhá část shrnuje historie jednotlivých jazyků od jejich kmenové minulosti zaznamenané antickými autory a zachycené v raných epigrafických památkách přes jejich literární tradice až po současnost. Přílohy zprostředkovávají hlavní modely genealogické klasifikace germánštiny mezi ostatními indoevropskými větvemi i vlastních germánských jazyků; srovnávací fonetiku a morfologii starých germánských jazyků; několik delších textů antických a středověkých autorů; přehled starogermánských písem; lexikostatistickou klasifikaci starogermánských jazyků a fríských dialektů. Bibliografie je rozdělena do dvou sekcí: (1) primární prameny; (2) (převážně) diachronní studie.

Author : M. Danesi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137376855

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The History of the Kiss! by M. Danesi Pdf

How and when did the kiss become a vital sign of romance and love? In this wide-ranging book, pop culture expert Marcel Danesi takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the history of the kiss, from poetry and painting to movies and popular songs, and argues that its romantic incarnation signaled the birth of popular culture.

Author : Glennis Byron,Dale Townshend
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135053062

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The Gothic World by Glennis Byron,Dale Townshend Pdf

The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field whilst also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art and cyberculture. Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections look at: Gothic Histories Gothic Spaces Gothic Readers and Writers Gothic Spectacle Contemporary Impulses. The Gothic World seeks to account for the Gothic as a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional force, as a style, an aesthetic experience and a mode of cultural expression that traverses genres, forms, media, disciplines and national boundaries and creates, indeed, its own ‘World’.

Author : Council for Social and Economic Studies (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : NWU:35556035775717

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The Mankind Quarterly by Council for Social and Economic Studies (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401209847

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The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic by Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff Pdf

This book is a comprehensive study of the Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic. It includes an investigation of all Germanic words that were borrowed into Proto-Slavic until its disintegration in the early ninth century. Research into the phonology, morphology and semantics of the loanwords serves as the basis of an investigation into the Germanic donor languages of the individual loanwords. The loanwords can be shown to be mainly of Gothic, High German and Low German origin. One of the aims of the present study is to clarify the accentuation of Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic and to explain how they were adapted to the Proto-Slavic accentual system. This volume is of special interest to scholars and students of Slavic and Germanic historical linguistics, contact linguistics and Slavic accentology. Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff’s research focuses on Slavic historical linguistics and language contact between Slavic and Germanic. She studied Slavic languages and cultures and Comparative Indo-European linguistics at Leiden University, where she also obtained her doctoral degree. She currently lives in Zagreb, where she contributed to the Croatian-Dutch dictionary (Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics), and now contributes to the Croatian Church Slavic dictionary (Old Church Slavonic Institute).

Author : Herwig Wolfram
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0520069838

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History of the Goths by Herwig Wolfram Pdf

Provides an overview on the formation of the Gothic tribes, their migrations, and the later history of the Ostrogothic and Visigothic settlements.

Author : Felix Dahn
Publisher : Serapis Classics
Page : 1209 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9783962555931

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A Struggle for Rome by Felix Dahn Pdf

After the death of Theodoric the Great his successors try to maintain his legacy: an independent Ostrogothic Kingdom. They are opposed by the Eastern Roman Empire, ruled by emperor Justinian I. It is he who tries to restore the Roman Empire to its state before the Migration Period from his residence in Constantinople, which requires the capture of the Italian Peninsula and specifically Rome. Theodoric the Great is succeeded by his infant grandson Athalaric, supervised by his mother, Amalasuntha, as regent. The lack of a strong heir caused the network of alliances that surrounded the Ostrogothic state to disintegrate: the Visigothic kingdom regained its autonomy under Amalaric, the relations with the Vandals turned increasingly hostile, and the Franks embarked again on expansion, subduing the Thuringians and the Burgundians and almost evicting the Visigoths from their last holdings in southern Gaul. After Athalaric, Ostrogoths Theodahad, Witiges, Totila and Teia succeed Theodoric the Great as king of the Ostrogoths, in that order, and theirs is the task to defend what is left of their empire. They are assisted by Theodoric's faithful armourer Hildebrand...

Author : Julius Sophus Felix Dahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600078889

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A struggle for Rome, tr. by L. Wolffsohn by Julius Sophus Felix Dahn Pdf

Author : Felix Dahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : NYPL:33433100731920

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A Struggle for Rome by Felix Dahn Pdf

Author : Ludwig Julius Sophus Felix Dahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000565086

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A Struggle for Rome by Ludwig Julius Sophus Felix Dahn Pdf