Author: Danuta JaskanisPublisher:
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Category : Balts (Indo-European people)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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The Balts, the Northern Neighbours of the Slavs
Author: Danuta JaskanisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balts (Indo-European people)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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The Making of the Slavs
Author: Florin CurtaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139428888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
This book offers an alternative approach to the problem of Slavic ethnicity in south-eastern Europe between c. 500 and c. 700, from the perspective of current anthropological theories. The conceptual emphasis here is on the relation between material culture and ethnicity. The author demonstrates that the history of the Sclavenes and the Antes begins only at around 500 AD. He also points to the significance of the archaeological evidence, which suggests that specific artefacts may have been used as identity markers. This evidence also indicates the role of local leaders in building group boundaries and in leading successful raids across the Danube. Because of these military and political developments, Byzantine authors began employing names such as Sclavines and Antes in order to make sense of the process of group identification that was taking place north of the Danube frontier. Slavic ethnicity is therefore shown to be a Byzantine invention.
Historical Dictionary of Lithuania
Author: Saulius A. SuziedelisPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810875365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Lithuania will serve as a useful introduction to virtually all aspects of Lithuania's historical experience, including the country's relations with its neighbors. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets.
The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade
Author: Aleksander PluskowskiPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000603431
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade explores the archaeology and material culture of the crusades against the Prussian tribes in the 13th century, and the resulting society created by the Teutonic Order which endured into the 16th century. It provides an updated synthesis of the material culture of this unique, hybrid society in the south-eastern Baltic region, encompassing the full range of archaeological data, from standing buildings through to artefacts and ecofacts, integrated with written and artistic sources. The work is sub-divided into broadly chronological themes, beginning with a historical outline, then exploring the settlements, castles, towns and landscapes of the Teutonic Order’s theocratic state, the character and tempo of religious transformation and concluding with the roles of the reconstructed and ruined monuments of medieval Prussia in the modern world, particularly within the context of Polish culture. This remains the first work on the archaeology of medieval Prussia in any language, and is intended as a comprehensive introduction to a period and area of growing interest. This book represents an important contribution to promoting International awareness of the cultural heritage of the Baltic region, which has been rapidly increasing over the last few decades.
Digging Politics
Author: James KoranyiPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110697440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Digging Politics explores uses of the ancient past in east-central Europe spanning the fascist, communist and post-communist period. Contributions range from East Germany to Poland to Romania to the Balkans. The volume addresses two central questions: Why then and why there. Without arguing for an east-central European exceptionalism, Digging Politics uncovers transnational phenomena across the region that have characterized political wrangling over ancient pasts. Contributions include the biographies of famous archaeologists during the Cold War, the wrought history of organizational politics of archaeology in Romania and the Balkans, politically charged Cold War exhibitions of the Thracians, the historical re-enactment of supposed ancient Central tribes in Hungary, and the virtual archaeology of Game of Thrones in Croatia. Digging Politics charts the extraordinary story of ancient pasts in modern east-central Europe.
Science, Arts & Lithuania
Author: Polish encyclopaedia
Author: Polish National Committee of AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
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Geography and Ethnography of Poland
Author: Polish National Committee of AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Polish Encyclopædia: no. 3-5. Territorial development of the Polish nation
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Polish
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
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