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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Barbarian"”.
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The Classical Barbarian in the Íslendingasögur
… comparisons are made with descriptions of barbarians in classical Roman texts, primarily Sallust, but also Caesar and Tacitus. Taking into account the availability and significance of classical learning in medieval Iceland, the comparison with Roman texts yields striking similarities …
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Lucian and the Atticists: A Barbarian at the Gates
… It focuses on Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian “barbarian” writer of satire and parody in Greek, and especially on his works that engage with language-oriented topics of contemporary relevance to his era. The term “language ideologies”, as it is used in studies of sociolinguistics, refers to …
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The Armpit Sage V. the Golden Barbarian: Zhen Luan's Response to the Taoist Conversion Narrative
This work examines a single line of argument from a medieval Chinese dispute between the supporters of Taoism and Buddhism. Western rhetorical scholars have generally ignored Chinese argumentation. It seems that the Western understanding of China as a rigidly hierarchical society has lead to the …
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We are not the periphery: barbarian economies and Northern Europe in the exchange patterns of Western Eurasia, 1800 BC - AD 900
Examination of long-term exchange patterns involving northern Europe and neighboring regions of western Eurasia reveals that the world of the North has, typically, played an important role both as producer and consumer. Especially in the Carolingian period (AD 700 - 900), the system as a whole can …
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Decline and Fall? The Institutional History of Post-Imperial Western Europe, AD 400-800
… several kingdoms initially founded by so-called 'barbarian' tribes. This thesis is a thematic assessment of the evolutionary trends that shaped this period. It respects and integrates the highly interconnected nature of these themes (politics and social structures, for instance). It is driven by a …
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Becoming Zhongguo, Becoming Han : Tracing and Reconceptualizing Ethnicity in Ancient North China, 770 BC - AD 581
… of progressive ethnic assimilation of minority/'barbarian' peoples by a distinct 'Huaxia'/'Hua'/'Han' ethnic group is supported by a thorough examination of the evidence. My argument, developed through a critical study of the use of ethnonyms in ancient north China, is that the ethnic …
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Des Amazones parmi les pères de l'église : témoignage de la condition féminine durant la période de l'église primitive
… the Fathers of the Church have said about these 'barbarian' women. Since the main concern for the time was to convert pagan citizen to Christianity and as the social context of this conversion was set in a most patriarcal society, syncretism created the Amazons as an example of the non-christian …
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Writing Against The War Machine: Wiflred Owen's Poetic Challenge to World War I Pro-War Rhetoric
… of pro-war rhetoric, the myth of the German barbarian and what he called the old lie. This thesis uses four of Owen’s poems to examine the differences between what soldiers saw on the Western Front versus what information civilians were given or what opinions they held. The four poems used …
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In search of Xerxes: images of the Persian king
… of all that the Greeks represented: the barbarian despol, a figure to be both feared and mocked. This leads to the marginalisation - both literal and symbolic - of the king even in sources where we might expect him to play a key role in the Persian Wars narrative. My thesis examines the …
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Haunted Paradise: Remembering and Forgetting Among Ascetics of the Egyptian Desert
… (Scetis, Kellia, Nitria, and Pherme). After a "barbarian" raid of Scetis in the early fifth century supposedly exiled Christian monks from the desert, Egypt came to be remembered as the birthplace of ascetic practice. Interpreting texts (in Coptic, Latin, Greek, Syriac, and Classical Arabic) and …
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Archaeology and environment in the vale of York
… events of A.D. 296. The apparent evidence for barbarian attack in northern England is reviewed and a less histrionic interpretation suggested.
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Romans and Goths in late antique Gaul: asepcts of political and cultural assimilation in the Fifth Century AD
… interaction between Gallo-Romans and barbarians in fifth century Gaul. Its aim is to investigate how both Romans and barbarians, particularly the Gothic people, shared a common living space within imperial territory, how this space was created, and to which extent both sides …
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The European presence in Japanese screen painting of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
… is the so-called Nanban byobu l�J~ MOO. Southern Barbarian folding screen paintings, depicting the arrival of Portuguese merchants and missionaries on Japanese shores. The paintings are classified as kinsei shokifuuzokuga ili:t!t1'.JJ~OO.{~@ (Early Modern Genre Painting) depicting scenes from …
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Excavating the Nation: Archaeology and Control of the Past and Present in Republican Sichuan
… antiquity, particularly in transforming ""Barbarian Caves"" into ""Han tombs,"" yet even here there was resistance. Ultimately, archaeological knowledge production in Republican Sichuan proved to be too unwieldy for Chinese nationalists, as it could not overcome diverse local opinion on …
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Malory, Chivalric Medievalism, and New Imperialist Masculinity
… hypermasculine ideal of the “savage” and the “barbarian.” It turned to “primitive” models of masculinity which it located in non-Western cultures such as the Zulus, and in the past, celebrating the heroism of ancient Greeks and Romans, Viking warriors, and medieval knights. I argue that …
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The continuing image of African victimage : Ali A. Mazrui's The Africans: A Triple Heritage.
… continent presented an image of the African as barbarian. This view was used to support pseudo-scientific racial theories of the period. Biblical interpretations for African inferiority also emerged to defend the notion of African inferiority. The African as victim emerged during the European …
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Defense d'afficher : the wartime art of Jean Lurç̧at and Jean Dubuffet
… governing France, and combatted the Nazi 'barbarian'. Each artist reached out to a wider public in this period, one grown sensitive to coded forms of resistance. After all, at this time even the simple act of listening to the BBC was an act of defiance, and ordinary citizens were deemed …
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The Kingdom of the Gepids during late antiquity power, territory, and identity in a forgotten successor kingdom
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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La pirateria marittima negli stretti di Malacca e Singapore in prospettiva storica e attuale
… Zhi, the reports of the Song Dynasty about the barbarian peoples, is it possible to read about the piracy in the Great Southern Ocean (Nanyang) «the foreign ships were often attacked by pirates. The captives were the favourite of pirates, one captive can sell for 2 liang or 3 liang gold, the …