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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Barbarians"”.
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Unlearned monsters: An archaeology of the Gothic romance
… myth and ""customary"" politics mythologized the barbarians who ""invaded"" Kent in 449 as native Goths whose return to their homeland redeemed its ""immemorial"" customs of political liberty and spiritual purity."
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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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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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Picturing a Nation Divided: Art, American Identity and the Crisis over Slavery
… of slavery was to educate these anti-slavery barbarians in the ways of the civilized south. Thus, the Arkansas Traveler reveals the role of art in communicating the complexity of ideology on the southern frontier on the eve of Civil War. </p>
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Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities in pre-Islamic Arabia
… Western produced) narratives framing them as ‘barbarians’ inhabiting the fringes of Rome and Iran and/or deterministic analyses in which they are depicted retrospectively as exemplified by the Muslims’ definition of the period as Jāhilīyah, ‘ignorance’.
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Genre and Empire: Historical Romance and Sixteenth-Century Chinese Cultural Fantasies
… practitioners, women, demons, and categories of barbarians. It argues that the historical romances have self-healing and self-assuring characteristics. They sublimate history into tales of triumphs, jokes, games, references, and historical reversions, and thus allow readers to imagine an …
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The Art of Perl: How a Scripting Language (inter)Activated the World Wide Web
… Web users, whom net artist Olia Lialina calls barbarians, or the indigenous. These users authored everything from database scripts to social spaces like chatrooms and bulletin boards. Perl, while largely ignored today, played a fundamental role in facilitating those social spaces and …
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Puritan iconoclasm : its origin and motivation
… themselves deserve to he seen not as aesthetic barbarians but as God-fearing men who acted out of a genuine concern for the individual’s as well as for their nation's relationship to God.
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Aspects of time and narrative in the novels of J.M. Coetzee
… In the Heart of the Country and Waiting for the Barbarians respectively, discuss how the novels oppose history thematically and formatically. The chapters on Life and Times of Michael K and Foe show characters escaping the restrictive terms of history, and how the novels establish a "fictional …
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Ancient Macedonian Ethnic Identity: A Study with Emphasis on the Literary Sources From the 5th c. B.C. to the 2nd c. A.D.
… in designating the Macedonian people as ‘barbarians.’ Although further literary evidence (especially in the form of an average Macedonian communicating their sense of ethnic self-perception) is needed before any definitive conclusions can be drawn, we may perhaps best understand the Greeks …
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The Writing on the Wall: Chinese-American Immigrants' Fight for Equality: 1850-1943
… of self-worth and their anger at the American “barbarians." The immigrants employed imagery that counteracted and even reversed the widely held negative images of the Chinese in American literature and speeches. As such, the poetry became a source of strength, a rallying cry providing the …
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Navigating the Smellscape of Medieval China
… from the corrupted, the civilised from the barbarians, and the sacred from the profane. This study situates medieval Chinese olfactory history in the context of an increasingly open world characterised by dynamic cross-cultural contacts, remaking of demographic and religious landscapes, as …
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Studies in Aetiology and Historical Methodology in Herodotus
… Histories where the struggle between Greeks and barbarians is concerned. The upshot is to make a novel case not only for the programmatic significance of the proem, but also for the cohesion of Herodotean methodology from cover to cover, a perennial concern for scholars of Greek history and …
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On evildoers: A Foucaultian analysis of the discursive structuring of contemporary terrorism
… century as an evil perpetrated by Arab/Muslim barbarians—Evildoers—waging a holy war against the Western civilisation. This study challenges not just this present understanding of terrorism, but the very existence of a ding an sich of terrorism. Using a combination of Foucault’s archaeological …
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The Expansion of the Mandarin Mind
… contempt for those it considered barbarians. Yet it has also been profoundly affected by outside forces. Chinese spiritual life was profoundly influenced by Buddhism imported from India. The country was forcibly made aware of the outside world during the rule of the Mongol Yuan …
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A Post-Colonial View of Thrace: Thracian-Greek Interactions From the Early Iron Age to the Early Hellenistic Period
The way we see relations between ‘Greeks’ and ‘Barbarians’ in the 1st millennium BC Mediterranean has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. Under the influence of post-colonial theory, the narrative has shifted from colonial conquest to multiple histories of diverse encounters. This thesis …
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La pirateria marittima negli stretti di Malacca e Singapore in prospettiva storica e attuale
… (longyamen) is between the two hills of Temasek barbarians, which look like dragon’s teeth’. Through the centre runs a waterway. The fields are barren and rice harvest is poor. The climate is hot with heavy rain in April and May. The inhabitants are addicted to piracy [...] when junks sail to the …
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Lucwaningo lolunzulu lolumayelana nekubaluleka kwemtsimba nalokuhambisana nawo emaSwatini
… who marry the customary way are considered as barbarians who know nothing, uneducated. This is because we have taken as respectable, the civil marriage-which according to the European culture as Christian marriage, and yet even that, is the same as the customary or traditional marriage because …
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