Sökning: "The Roman Empire"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 31 avhandlingar innehållade orden The Roman Empire.

1. 21. Runor, magi, ideologi : en idéhistorisk studie

   Författare :Björn Andersson; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Language; history of literacy; runology; magic; cultural dissemination; ideology; Nazism;

   Sammanfattning : The present dissertation deals with runology from the perspective of the history of science and ideas. Its point of departure is the controversial question among runologists of whether or not runes were used for magical purposes and places this question in atradition of magic writing, with its roots in early antiquity (when written language emerges in Mesopotamia), and in thoughts about symbolism, whose origins are lost to usin the mists of our prehistoric past. LÄS MER

3. 22. Relations of Absence : Germans in the East Indies and Their Families c. 1750–1820

   Författare :Francisca Hoyer; Margaret R. Hunt; Claudia Jarzebowski; Renate Dürr; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; British East India Company; Dutch East India Company; Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; 18th century; 19th century; Southeast Asia; India; Cape Colony; Brandenburg-Prussia; German history; global family history; new imperial history; gender history; history of emotions; concubinage; inter-ethnic unions; colonialism; slavery; Ostindienfahrer; petitions;

   Sammanfattning : In the early modern period thousands of Germans, mostly men but also a few women and children, travelled to the Indian Ocean world in the service of the Dutch and British East India companies (VOC and EIC). Family played a key role for these Ostindienfahrer (East Indies travellers). LÄS MER

4. 23. Accounts of Northern Barbarians in Tacitus' Annales : A Contextual Analysis

   Författare :Aske Damtoft Poulsen; Latin; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philology; Classics; Roman Literature; Classical Historiography; Tacitus; Intertextuality;

   Sammanfattning : The Roman historian Tacitus is not only our most important source for the Early Roman Empire, but also a literary artist second to none. His fragmentarily preserved Annales deals with the imperial rule established by the first emperor Augustus, the Julio-Claudian dynasty (AD 14 – 68). LÄS MER

5. 24. Luni sul Mignone och dess kringland. En diakronisk studie av ett mellanitaliskt landskap och dess arkeologi

   Författare :Johnny Bengtsson; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Antikens och forntidens historia; Ancient history; Arkeologi; diachronical; northern Latium; nucleated settlement; Luni sul Mignone; rural landscape; survey; Bronze Age; Iron Age; Etruscan period; fortifications; farmsteads; demographic change; Roman period; Archaeology; medieval.; Demography; Demografi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is an archaeological study of a small region in northern Latium and the diachronical relationship between a nucleated settlement and its rural landscape. The work has a twofold basis: a review of earlier research concerning the settlement Luni sul Mignone in the light of more recent research, and a survey conducted by the present author of the territory of Luni. LÄS MER

7. 25. Stilla flyter Maas : senromersk strategi och logistik i den arkeologiska rekonstruktionen

   Författare :Mikael Dahlgren; Arkeologi; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; logistics; fortifications; Limes; frontiers; defence-in-depth; Netherlands; Belgium; Maas; Maastricht; Nijmegen; Luttwak; provincial Roman archaeology; strategy; Warfare;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with antique warfare in general and late Roman warfare in particular. The overall aim is to discuss the concept of strategy in the archaeological and historical reconstruction, based on Edward N. Luttwak’s groundbreaking work The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire (1976). LÄS MER