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"Historiae" Grzegorza z Tours jako źródło informacji o diecie mieszkańców VI-wiecznej Galii

Author(s): Krzysztof Jagusiak,Jolanta Dybała,Maciej Kokoszko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

The present article focuses on the presentation of excerpts from the main historical work written by Gregory, bishop of Tours, which deal with food and drink in the diet of his contemporaries in Gaul. The author devoted most space to the menu of the Frankish state elite – royal families, bishops and secular nobles. In addition, he gave some information on a diet of people who avoided the luxury and pleasures for God. The narration of Gregory is our article supported in our article by other sources: medical, historiographical, gastronomical, patristic etc. The most important among them were these written by Venantius Fortunatus, Sidonius Apollinaris, Anthimus, Galen, Oribasius, and Athenaeus of Naucratis. The analysis of the sources, leads us to the conclusion that despite the deep, multidimensional changes that took place between the 5th and 6th centuries in the areas known as Gaul, there were no major changes in the nutritional habits of the local people. It does not mean that the Germanic population did not influence the culinary world of 6th-century Gaul in any way. Sources confirm such influence, however, on this field it was not great. On the basis of the preserved treatises – and the Historiae of Gregory of Tours is one of our key source – one can observe the survival (and continuation) of ancient culinary traditions in the Frankish state.

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"The Beginnings of Polish Jewry: Reevaluating the Evidence for the Eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries"

Author(s): Alexander Kulik,Judith Kalik / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

This article reexamines the evidence of Jewish presence in Poland from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries in connection with problems of origins, periodization, and localization of Jewish settlement in Poland. It deals inter alia with questions regarding the balance between Jewish and Christian evidence, as well as with reports of Jewish presence from neighboring areas of Eastern Europe such as Kievan Rus’. The reevaluation of evidence on medieval Polish Jews helps to illuminate the origins of eastern Ashkenazi Jewry, as well as to clarify diverse aspects of the history of early Eastern Europe. Thus, for example, among the most important general conclusions is the lack of continuity across three waves of Jewish migration and settlement in Poland. Since most Polish Jews were descendants of the third wave of Jewish migration into Poland, there is little doubt that the vast majority of them came from Germany and Bohemia, mostly via Silesia. We can also reliably conjecture that the Jewish population of southwestern Rus’—whatever its origins (possibly also at least partially Ashkenazi) and size (possibly reduced by the Mongol conquest)— came to be integrated with immigrants from the west due to the eastward expansion of Lithuania and Poland during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Thus, most modern Ashkenazi Jewry must go back to the melding of these two communities.

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"Коронування Богородиці" як дзеркало суспільних процесів

Author(s): Oleksandra Serhiyivna Isaykova / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 22/2012

The article shows the author’s attempt to consider iconography subject of "Madonna’s Coronation" that was new for the west European religious art of the 12th cent. through the prism of feudal model of society and to carry out its interpretation from point of display of secular ideals.

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(Un)usual? Glass finds from the site of the Hatshepsut Temple in Deir el-Bahari

Author(s): Renata Kucharczyk / Language(s): English Issue: XXX/2021

Abstract: A group of glass shards recovered from the fill of shaft tombs from the Third Intermediate Period on the Upper Terrace of the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari consists for the most part of non-diagnostic body vessel fragments. At least 17 different vessels are attested in this assemblage, assigned to the 4th century AD, with only two pieces dated to the 1st–3rd centuries AD. In addition to the vessels, a few windowpanes from the 6th–8th century AD were also found. This small group of glass finds is the first ever to be published from the Temple of Hatshepsut.

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10–11. SZÁZADI TEMETŐ KÖRÖSTARJÁN-CSORDÁSDOMBON (TĂRIAN, ROMÁNIA)

Author(s): Attila Lakatos / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1-2/2003

In the spring of 1967, at the village Köröstarján (Tărian), lying close to the western border of Romania, in the vicinity of the town Nagyvárad (Oradea) on the right bank of the river Sebes-Körös graves were found during the extraction of sand pits on the hill called Csordásdomb (Fig. 1). Rescue excavations were started in April of the same year by N. Chiodosan and D. Ignat, who opened altogether 41 graves. Apart from graves dated to Celtic, Sarmatian and uncertain periods, there were 12 Hungarian burials of 10–11th centuries (Fig. 2). The former 10–11th century cemetery must have contained much more graves as the excavations could not delimit the extent of the cemetery in any directions. The documentation concerning the excavations remained also in a deficient state. Thus it is very difficult to draw conclusions on the order of the burials. The graves were oriented, with minor divergences, to the west, with the exception of grave No. 29 oriented with the head facing south. Several of the graves were disturbed in the remote past. Horse harness was found in two graves (21, 29) and remains of a horse skull in one (this latter was a robbed grave, see Fig. 3/7). In grave No. 21 (Fig. 3/5) an arrowhead made of iron was found. This was the only grave with arms among the grave-goods. On the basis of the finds, all of the graves could be dated to the 10th century with one exception. Probably they started to use the cemetery before the middle of the 10th century and it was continued in this function till the end of the century. The only exception is one skull buried separately dated by a denar of Ist (Saint) László, King of Hungary in 1077–1096 (Fig. 3/2). According to the opinion of the author, this skull was dug into the already long forsaken cemetery by the end of the 11th century

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1189-1207 წლების ლიპარიტისუბნის სააღმშენებლო წარწერა ერთიანი საქართველოს მეფეების, თამარისა და მისი მეუღლის, დავითის მოხსენიებით

Author(s): Tamaz Gogoladze / Language(s): Georgian Issue: 4/2020

The paper deals with a new reading of a lapidary inscription attributed to the Theodore, concerning construction of the Liparitisubani church. Significant correction has been introduced into the text.Until this day, Georgian historiography (A. Bakradze, E. Kochlamazashvili, Z. Skhirtladze, G.Otkhmezuri) considered the reading of the above text introduced by Ekvtime Takaishvili acceptable.According to this reading, the church of Liparitisubani was built in XIIth century by Theodore, the“Iodosisdze” of the Qeen Tamar (1184-1210) and, her husband David. According to one part of Scientists(G. Otkhmezuri) founder of church was Theodore Iodomisdze. Our study has shown that the inscription must be read in a different way: The church of Liparitisubani was built in 1189-1207 by Theodore Ghodomisdze.

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16. SZÁZADI, KÉSŐ RENESZÁNSZ ÖLTÖZETŰ LEÁNYKA SÍRJA BOLDVÁN

Author(s): Ilona Valter / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2012

The actually standing Calvinist church of Boldva is of a royal founding. The building functioned as a Benedictine abbey around 1175–1180. The archaeological excavations conducted between 1976 and 1982 uncovered 68 graves within the church. A 14–16 years old girl lay in grave no. 21 in perfectly preserved renaissance clothes. She probably died in 1567 or 1568 and she was a member of the Putnoky family of the Rátót clan. This family owned Boldva until 1570, and then the Basó family owned it for about 160 years. The girl’s uncle Mihály Basó lay in grave no. 14 and her mother Klára Basó in grave no. 17.

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2021 YILI NİKSAR KALESİ KAZISI SERAMİK BULUNTULARINDA KAP TİPLERİ

Author(s): Davut Yiğitpaşa,Turgay Yazar,Şuayip Çelemoğlu,Bilge Bahar / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 14/2022

This study evaluated 655 ceramic kinds and types (form) found in the Niksar Castle 2021 excavation. The earliest examples of ceramics identified belong to the Hellenistic period, and the late examples belong to the last years of the Ottoman period. Most of the ceramics belong to the 11-14th century range, while the 81 examples introduced in total have typical medieval ware features. The ceramics spread over a broad period, with six main vessel types determined: Plates, bowls, pots, pottery, jugs and sphero-conical vessels. Pots are the numerically richest group in numbers, with 323 samples and their subtypes. Pottery ranks second with 143 samples, while pedestals rank third with 126 samples, jugs fourth with 31, caps fifth with 16, bowls sixth with 14 samples. Spherical-conical-bodied vessels rank last, with two samples making less than 1%. All of the ceramics were wheel-produced and constitute two main groups in terms of construction and decoration techniques: Glazed and unglazed, with glazed and unlined samples in both groups. In terms of paste, line, additives, baking degree, form, surface treatments, glaze and decoration features, the Niksar Castle finds show common features with other centers, and local production differences are not significant. The ceramics come from the building area in front of the eastern wall of the inner castle. The 2021 excavations could not yet reach the ground level of the buildings. This part shows the characteristics of the rubble of carelessly built walls, which were subsequently added to the main structure in the form of mortar or drywall, and that of a mixed structure including waste material that does not allow stratigraphy. The ceramics evaluated were daily used and came from areas in the trenches KIV-c5, KIV-d5, KIV-e5, KV-a5, KV-a5, LIV-d1, LIV-e1, LV-a1 and LV-b1; we could not define the functions of these trenches at the moment. Except for the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the ceramics are similar in terms of technology, form and decoration.

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568 – A HISTORICAL DATE AND ITS ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES

Author(s): István Koncz / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

Written sources reveal that a political power shift and an excessive change of population took place in Pannonia in 568. Archaeological data suggest, however, coexsistence between communities different origins despite the community level realignment of society. The author would like to highlight some neglected examples that could provide details of vital importance for the topic and connect it to well known sites, all too often having complex and unclear interpretations. Continuity is analysed through the last phase of Langobard Period cemeteries, presuming that they were still in use during the last third of the 6th century, and through the early phase of Avar Period cemeteries, as their connection networks are the same: an intensive interaction with the western Merovingian and the Mediterranean world. This connection is evident in certain arte fact types (belts, weapons, brooches) and in attireas a whole as well.

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6-10. YÜZYILLARDA KARADENİZ'İN KUZEYİNDE KÜRK TİCARETİ

Author(s): Engin Eroğlu / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 15/2018

The fur trade, which runs from the Scandinavia to the Caspian Sea,began to focus from the 6th century. The historical process that causes this situation, began with encounters of some of the Slavic tribes , spreading from the field of Middle Ozi(Dnieper) northerly to the surroundings of Lake Ladoga and İlmen with Fin societies in the 6-8th century. In the 8th century Normans which penetrated to the Ladoga and İlmen Lake surroundings, spread in the direction of upper Idil (Volga) and Ozi River. So Normans arrived the Khazar country through the Idil River and also came down to the Black Sea through the Ozi and contacted the Slavs there. In the following process, Normans and later Russian merchants, sold valuable furs they receive from Fin and Slavic people, especially to Islamic countries under the patronage of Idil Bulgarian states.

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9. SZÁZADI TELEPÜLÉS A HOSSZÚ-VÍZ VÖLGYÉBEN (VÁT–TELEKES-DŰLŐ, VAS MEGYE)

Author(s): Péter Skriba / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2010

Am Fundort Vát-Telekes-dűlő wurden in zehn von den freigelegten Objekten Tierknochen gefunden, insgesamt 294 Fragmente. In den meisten Objekten lagen durchschnittlich nur vier bis fünf Fragmente. In diesen Fällen kann auf Grund der kleinen Zahl angenommen werden, dass die Knochen zufällig hineingelangten. Drei Objekte enthielten jedoch anders als die übrigen eine beachtliche Menge von Tierknochen. Die 19 Fragmente in Objekt 81 deuten bereits eine gewisse Kausalität an. Die 98 Fragmente in Grube 320 und die 141 im Grubenhaus 8 weisen absolute Zwecklichkeit auf.

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9th century and Árpád Period settlement fragments at Újhartyán (Rescue Excavation on Road No. 405)

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9th century and Árpád Period settlement fragments at Újhartyán (Rescue Excavation on Road No. 405)

Author(s): Dénes Jankovich Bésán / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2009

I took part in the archaeological excavations preceding the construction of road no. 405 between March 1 and June 26, 1994. The stretch between 0 km and 3 km where I was the director of the excavation started at the Dabas exit of highway M5 (marked by a triangle in Fig. 1), and lay within to the administrative borders of Újhartyán village. The archaeologists of Pest county had already carried out field walking in the track and in its environment. It indicated a single site on my territory: site no. 42.1 About two thirds of the territory was covered with planted pine and acacia forests, while the stretch between 2000 m and 3000 m was a wheat field on a soil composed partly of wind-blown sand and partly by a more compact humic soil. The area was segmented by N-S directed, 1–2 m high elevations. It could already be observed before the excavations that a few of the depressions between the elevations were former water courses or the remains of a waterlogged territory.

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A 11. századi magyar–német háborúk

Author(s): László Veszprémy / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 03/2019

Following the famous Bratislava battle of 907, the country was invaded by alien troops in 1030, and the patriotic wars of 11th century Hungarian military history started with the successes against Conrad II and continued with the defeats of the year 1040. The Hungarians battled the Germans again in 1051 and 1052. These military actions involved significant forces, as also demonstrated by the fact that the sufferings of the war were frequently mentioned in later years by the Germans as well. The German Kaiserchronik turns the German defeat into a victory, while the legend of Saint Stephen immortalizes its memory with the description of a divine intervention. The Hungarian chronicle offers descriptions of the events of 1051-52, embellished with several mythical elements.

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A barbár múlt és a nemzeti dicsőség

Author(s): Bálint Varga / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2015

After settling in the Carpathian Basin in the early 10th century, pagan and nomadic Magyar tribes led a series of military campaigns against the organized states of Christian Europe. Based on the changing interpretations of these five decades, this study attempts to answer the question, how 19th century historians tried to interpret „inconvenient” events in a way that they could still insert into the master narrative of the glorious national past, utilizing the required methodology of historiography. Influenced by Göttingen scholar Ludwig Schlözer, authors of the late Enlightenment in Hungary depicted a rather negative picture about the Magyar raids. They condemned the Magyar campaigns as barbaric deeds, but at the same time used the ancient topos of noble savage to clear from the most negative charges of contemporary German authors. Romanticism brought about a significant change. In 1836 Mihály Horváth, the most influential romantic historian, wrote a comprehensive study Parallel between the Magyar nation moving to Europe and the civil and moral culture of Europe. In this bulky paper, Horváth argued that in the 10th century, Christian people of Europe had already lost their previous freedom but they developed no higher culture yet. Contrarily, Magyars were evidently free, though Christian Europe was somewhat ahead in terms of complexity of social structures and culture. The raids were outcome of the „young age” of the nation. This apologetic tone ruled the mid-19th century Magyar historiography. The late 19th and early 20th centuries witnessed the rapid development of Hungarian historical scholarship in methods, infrastructure, institutions and number of the staff. Critical historiographical standards became more common. The historians of this period became again critical towards pagan Magyars, whose society was now believed underdeveloped in terms of state-building. The Magyar campaigns were seen by critical historians as individual undertakings, which endangered the national unity. Two factors explain the change of the paradigm: first, the European intellectual environment, which Hungarian authors followed closely. Second, that the role of the state gained an increasing weight in Hungarian political discourse from the 1870s, replacing the former emphasis on people.

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A BÉKÉSCSABAI KÉSŐROMÁN KORI ARANY MELLTŰ

Author(s): Imre Szatmári / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1-2/2005

In 1878, a golden brooch was inventorised to the Hungarian National Museum, coming to the capital from Békéscsaba (Fig. 1a–b). The object is decorated with human figures, interpreted as a dancing couple of a couple of lovers, man and woman. Probably, the object was intended to clasp the neck-aperture of a lady’s dress. In most of the publications, this object was erroneously mentioned as coming from Tömörd, Komárom county and only most recent research could correctly identify its Békéscsaba provenance.

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A bizánci szónok: Michaél Psellos

Author(s): Zoltán Farkas / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2021

Analysing an epigram (poem. 86 Westerink) and passages from the Life of St Auxentius and Chronographia the paper focuses on how the rhetorical exercises (comparison, personification, description) used in the course of oratorical studies appear in the literary works of the Byzantine writer, Michael Psellus. It is the device of characterization applied in the gradually developing genre of historia what makes Psellus’ opus magnum, an account of contemporary Byzantine history, truly unique.

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A Byzantine Settlement on the Kalabaklı Valley in the Hellespont: Yağcılar

Author(s): Ayşe Ç. Türker / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The Kalabaklı Valley is an approximately 12-km-long valley which extends towards the Hellespont in the south-east — north-west direction between 440-meter-high Bayraktepe in its north-east and 407-meter-high Beşiktepe in its south. Located in the south of the point at which the Kalabaklı Tributary reached the strait, Dardanos was an episcopal center in the Byzantine period. Probably, the settlement of the episcopacy of Dardanos also spread to Kepez in the north of the point at which the river reached the strait. Kepez has an important port, and numerous Byzantine glazed pottery items were detected during our surveys in this area. Vessels which were very analogous to the pottery in this area in terms of their paste, shape, and decoration characteristics were documented during the surveys we carried on in the Yağcılar Village in the upper section of the Kalabaklı Valley. Yağcılar, which we first detected during our surveys, has very rich surface materials, and the quality of the finds indicates that a production center probably existed.

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A Challenge to the Contemporary Multiculturalism from a Historical Perspective: The Early Abbasid Era

Author(s): Emel Topçu,Ibrahim Halil Menek / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

This study examines the early multiculturalism of the Abbasid Empire. The purpose is to demonstrate the significance of historical multiculturalism in building a governmental-social system. The analysis of the early Abbasid multiculturalism also integrates Persian and Greco-Roman multicultural models. The study argues that the Abbasid Dynasty, which succeeded the Umayyad Dynasty after a revolution, had introduced a unique multicultural model by establishing a tolerant and libertarian imperial structure. In effect, the Abbasid Dynasty rejected the Umayyad emphasis on the so-called Arab nationalism in its early period (750-833). This study employs a comparative analysis of the early multiculturalism of the Abbasid Empire and modern practices of multiculturalism for textual analysis and conclusions. It is significant to demonstrate how the early multiculturalism of the Abbasid Empire could be correlated to modern multicultural practices. In this regard, the policy of support and encouragement of translation activities by the early Abbasid caliphs, rulers and intellectuals had strengthened this multicultural system, which was inclusive regardless of ethnicity, religion, and race.

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A csíkszentkirályi plébániatemplom kutatása (2002)

Author(s): Boglárka Tóth,István Botár,Miklós Rácz / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: II/2007

The presented data were collected on the occasion of the outer refurbishment of the church of Sâncrăieni. We did not have the opportunity to do archaeological research elsewhere, nevertheless we could form a comprehensive history of the main building periods. Sâncrăieni is situated int he eastern part of Transylvania, in the former Szekler seat Csík. The name refers to Saint Stephen I, the first king of Hungary as „Saint King" (Szentkirály), this village name and its church had therefore been created before 1192, the canonization of the second saint king of Hungary, László I. The Hungarian-speaking population of the Szeklers was settled in the region int he late 12th and early 13th centuries. Sâncrăieni and its church were probably founded by the new settlers, but they can as well be of an earlier origin. The walls of the nave preserve the remains of two medieval phases. The western gate and one fragment of a window can be identified as parts of a Romanic period Later the nave was elongated towards the east, on this part of the southern wall an early gothic window was discovered. None of the medieval periods of the chancel is known, as the present chancel was built to the nave in 1759. Like the most village churches of the region, the medieval church had no spire, nevertheless a bell from 1562 testifies to the existence of a wooden tower. Based on dendrochronological dating of the timbers, the present tower in the west was built in the early 18th century. The roof forms of the two medieval phases of the nave were reconstructed on the basis of the western gable remains.The presented data were collected on the occasion of the outer refurbishment of the church of Sâncrăieni. We did not have the opportunity to do archaeological research elsewhere, nevertheless we could form a comprehensive history of the main building periods. Sâncrăieni is situated in the Eastern part of Transylvania, in the former Szekler seat Csík. The name refers to Saint Stephen I, the first king of Hungary as „Saint King" (Szentkirály), this village name and its church had therefore been created before 1192, the canonization of the second saint king of Hungary, László I. The Hungarian-speaking population of the Szeklers was settled in the region in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. Sâncrăieni and its church were probably founded by the new settlers, but they can as well be of an earlier origin. The walls of the nave preserve the remains of two medieval phases. The western gate and one fragment of a window can be identified as parts of a Romanic period Later the nave was elongated towards the east, on this part of the southern wall an early gothic window was discovered. None of the medieval periods of the chancel is known, as the present chancel was built to the nave in 1759. Like the most village churches of the region, the medieval church had no spire, nevertheless a bell from 1562 testifies to the existence of a wooden tower. Based on dendrochronological dating of the timbers, the present tower in the west was built in the early 18th century. The roof forms of the two medieval phases of the nave were reconstructed on the basis of the western gable remains.

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A decorated bronze censer from the Cathedral in Old Dongola

Author(s): Maciej Wyżgoł / Language(s): English Issue: XXVI/2017

A bronze censer found in the Church of Brick Pillars in Old Dongola in 1968 provides unique insight into the role of such liturgical vessels in medieval Nubia. In this new study of the iconography and production technique of this vessel, coupled with an epigraphical analysis of the Greek and Old Nubian inscription around the edge, the author suggests that the vessel was crafted by Makurian craftsmen sometime in the first few hundred years after the conversion of the Nubian kingdoms to Christianity (in the 6th or 7th century AD). Seeking sources of inspiration for the Dongolan masters of the metal-working craft, the author looks to the Byzantine Empire, where close parallels for the decoration of the Nubian censer can be found in late antique silver objects. This leads to a discussion of trade relations between the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Makuria, and the possible exchange of official gifts.

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