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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade ordet barbarians.

  1. 1. Staging the world. Rome and the other in the triumphal procession

    Författare :Ida Östenberg; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; world mastery; kings; barbarians; conquest; aerarium; wealth; triumphator; representations; captives; spoils; enargeia; spectators; display; role-playing; processional sequence; self-definition; the other; ritual; performance; Rome; triumphal procession; oikumene.; Ancient history; Antikens och forntidens historia;

    Sammanfattning : The triumphal procession staged Roman conquest and supremacy, featuring the defeated ‘other’ as opposed to the victorious ‘self’ in a rather fixed role-playing. This thesis takes as its theoretical premise that these ritually recurrent and visually emphatic processions both conveyed and constructed Roman views of the self and the other, and that they can be studied as formative expressions of such conceptions. LÄS MER

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. Du och jag men inte vi : om omöjliga möten och deras orsaker i J. M. Coetzees fiktion

    Författare :Carolina Ignell; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; J. M. Coetzee; South Africa; 20th century; postcolonialism; Self; Other; writing back; language; shame; guilt; Fanon; thematic studies; encounters.;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of In the Heart of the Country (1977), Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Age of Iron (1990), Disgrace (1999), Diary of a Bad Year (2007), and Summertime (2009) written by J. M. Coetzee. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Vapnen i wreccornas tid, 150-500 e.Kr. : om de romerska auxiliarpilspetsarna och den västliga traditionens framväxt

    Författare :Peter Lindbom; Paul Sinclair; Neil Price; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Archaeology; Roman Iron Age; Migration Period; arrow points; Post Colonial theory; Germanic peoples; social capital; warfare; warrior bands; mercenaries; Weapons; Danish Bog finds; Norwegian Vestland; Arkeologi;

    Sammanfattning : Lindbom, Peter. 2006. Weapons in the time of the Wreccas, 150-500 AD., Roman auxiliary arrow points and the development of the Western tradition, AUN 36, Uppsala, 290 pp. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Beundrad barbar. Amasonen i västeuropeisk bildkultur 1789-1918 : Admired Barbarian. The Amazon in Western European Visual Culture 1789-1918

    Författare :Ulrika Stahre; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to study the Amazon as a motif in relation to a sex/gender hierarchy during the period 1789-1918. The myth of the amazons was an inheritance from Greek antiquity and told of a female warrior-people who were ruled by a queen. LÄS MER