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This edition forms the fourth volume of the series "Vorarbeiten zu einem Urkundenbuch des Patriarchats Aquileia". It thus complements the existing editions of documents from Friulian churches up to the middle of the 13th century. Around half of the texts or document extracts contained here were previously completely unknown to researchers. Moreover, a number of texts have now been edited verbatim for the first time, and others are now available due to a significantly better textual basis than...

In 1848 a comprehensive process of modernisation of the education system started in the Habsburg monarchy whose effects are still felt today. In keeping with the liberal, enlightened ethos, the standard of education was to be raised, the influence of the church reduced, the ability of people to make judgements improved, independent thinking encouraged, and young people were to be inoculated with a sense of patriotism centred around the emperor and the empire. The dissemination of practical...

In the southeastern Alpine region, German, Slavic and Romance cultures meet and shape one of the most culturally diverse regions in Europe. For a very long time, Germans and Slovenes lived under a political umbrella that covered economic, social and cultural structures common to people regardless of their language. It was only after 1918 that people found themselves living in two separate states in which distinguishing between the self and one’s neighbours in terms of nationhood was the norm....

The more than 300,000 documents discovered in a storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo in the late 19th century, now housed in the collections in St. Petersburg, Cambridge, and Paris, are known as the Cairo Genizah. These documents, which span a wide array of subjects, are invaluable sources for understanding the history of medieval Judaism, as well as for the social and economic landscape of the Mediterranean from the 10th to the 13th centuries. Among them are thousands of private...

The book accompanying the ‘Ice Age’ exhibition tells the story of the fascinating world of the Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers of the last Ice Age between around 40,000 and 11,700 years ago. This time frame is intrinsically connected to modern humans (Homo sapiens) and is illustrated by several sites around Krems an der Donau (Lower Austria). Different areas of daily life, from birth to death and complex survival strategies of the highly mobile societies are shown in an exciting and vivid way....

Band 74 enthält zehn Beiträge, die sich Editionen neuer Texte, Analysen byzantinischer Handschriften und historischen Fragestellungen widmen. Ediert sind ein Compendium zur geometrischen Metrologie (F. Acerbi), ein Brief des Nikolaos Mesarites zur Hochzeit des Theodoros I. Laskaris mit Philippa von Armenien (B. Daskas), eine Rede des Demetrios Chrysoloras auf den Heiligen Demetrios (M. Dessilani), Formulare zur Einsetzung eines „pater pneumatikos“ (Ch. Gastgeber), ein platonischer Traktat des...

The present volume documents eight haords of Late Kushan and Kushano-Sasanian copper coins from various sources. Apart from the presentation of the numismatics material, different topics such as rulers, mints, metrology, and additional marks are discussed in detail. Above all, however, is the first comprehensive attempt since Robert Göbl's studies from 1984 and 1993 to fit the Kushano-Sasanian copper coinage into the history of Eastern Iran in Late Antiquity on the basic of numismatic system...

The present volume explores the coins unearthed during the excavations at the ancient city of Barikot (Swāt Valley, northern Pakistan) between 1984 and 2022. The excavations of the Italian Archaeological Mission at Barikot have revealed numerous settlement phases from the prehistoric to the Islamic times. Of particular significance are over 500 coin finds, which are placed in their historical context in this volume to draw a clear picture of the monetary circulation in the Swāt Valley...

Die internationale und interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Zeitschrift „Ägypten und Levante“, die einmal jährlich im Druck und online erscheint, wurde im Jahr 1990 von Manfred Bietak begründet, um den Forschungen zu den Kulturkontakten zwischen Ägypten und seinen Nachbarländern eine Publikationsplattform zu bieten. Das Themenfeld der Zeitschrift umfasst Berichte zu archäologischen Grabungen in Ägypten und dem gesamten Vorderen Orient mit dem Sudan, wie auch Artikel zu allen Aspekten der ägyptischen...

This is the third and last volume of the “Repertorium” of the Greek and Latin inscriptions from Mysia. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the history and topography of Kyzikos. Today, only the pillars of the amphitheatre remain of the city, which according to Strabo (12.8.11) “can compete with the first cities of Asia in size, beauty and good organization for peace and war”; much of it was carried off to Constantinople for the construction of the palaces. In addition, on the basis of literary...

GI_Forum Journal is an international, peer reviewed Open Access journal that provides a forum for the critical examination of spatial enquiry. It publishes high quality original research across the transdisciplinary field of Geographic Information Science (GIScience), Media Geographies and Geomedia Education. The journal provides a platform for dialogue among GI-Scientists and educators, technologists, social scientists, and critical thinkers in an ongoing effort to advance the field and...