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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Sixth century"”.
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The Chinese colonization of Tongking, first century AD to sixth century AD
In 111 BC Emperor Wu of the Former Han dynasty conquered the independent kingdom of Nan-yüeh which was based in the Kuangtung region of modern China and extended south to include Tongking in northern Vietnam. After Wu-ti's conquest, Nan-yüeh was divided into 9 commanderies, one of which - …
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The Chinese colonization of Tongking, first century AD to sixth century AD
In 111 BC Emperor Wu of the Former Han dynasty conquered the independent kingdom of Nan-yüeh which was based in the Kuangtung region of modern China and extended south to include Tongking in northern Vietnam. After Wu-ti's conquest, Nan-yüeh was divided into 9 commanderies, one of which - …
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Social and Literary Aspects of Gaul in the Sixth Century, As Chronicled by Gregory of Tours
University of Minnesota Masters thesis. June 1920. Major: Literature. 1 computer file (PDF); 63 pages.
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The prose lives of Venantius Fortunatus: Hagiography, lay piety and pastoral care in sixth-century Gaul
… and the literary promotion of saints’ cults in sixth-century Gaul. Hagiography, however, was also becoming increasingly instrumental in bishops’ religious instruction of the laity and in the laity’s own efforts to achieve salvation. This study uses stylistic, semiotic and intertextual analysis …
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Road work ahead: the transformation of the colonnaded street in sixth and early seventh century Palestine and Arabia
… is shown to have continued to exist into the sixth century, at least in major urban centers, and despite the diminishing will and ability of municipal councils to maintain them from the late fourth century onward. By the late sixth century all colonnaded streets in Palestine and Arabia …
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The Pilgrimage Center of St. Symeon the Younger: designed by angels, supervised by a saint, constructed by pilgrims
… development of the site throughout the sixth century, although available archaeological and textual data concerning the preceding and successive periods is briefly presented. A full account of the state of the site at present is given in Chapter 2. This chapter is a detailed …
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Political Debate in the Age of Justinian I
This thesis examines how Romans in sixth-century Constantinople debated politics. It begins by observing that Justinian I ruled in a political culture far more open to conflicts of views and criticism of the régime than is often appreciated. It conducts intertextual, contextualist close readings of …
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"The ""Codex Argenteus Upsaliensis"": A codicological examination"
… information about the language of the Goths in sixth-century Italy, as well as serving as the primary resource for Gothic studies. Beginning in 1662 with Junius' Editio Princeps of the Codex Argenteus, scholars have investigated various aspects of the language and the text of this manuscript.
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Reforging history : the divine warrior in Persian period expansions in "The twelve".
… Empire to the rise of Persia, or the "Long Sixth Century." This dissertation argues that the Persian era expansions of the Book of the Twelve contain an embedded historiography that centralizes the role of Yahweh in all of the consequential events affecting Judah and Yehud by means of the …
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Burial Practices in Transition: A study of the cultural and religious cohesion of Early Medieval Europe
In the seventh century AD, burial practice fundamentally changed across northern and western Europe, transitioning from burial with varying provision of grave goods, to a standardised, simple burial, with no accompanying objects. This was a process that happened around the same time across many …
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The Sculpture of Roman Minturnae
… Latium which flourished from 295 B.C. until the sixth century A.C. Although most pieces have been previously published, the bibliography of each is brought up to date and new insights are offered with regard to identification, iconography, and dating. A special attempt is made to place the …
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Bastions of turf : frisians, terpen and the re-adoption of a "working" landscape
… Terpen are dwelling mounds constructed from the sixth century BCE through the present. This thesis examines the landscapes formation and re-adoption through the fifth century. These mounds were built in several waves by ancient inhabitants of the windswept flood prone tidal flats of northern …
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The Mari Lwyd and the horse queen : palimpsests of Ancient ideas.
… 1500 BCE. Documentary evidence in rock art, and sixth century BCE Tartessian inscriptions demonstrate that the ancient Celtic world saw this deity of the land as a Horse Queen that ruled the land and granted fertility. Evidence suggests that she could grant sovereignty rights to humans by uniting …
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The Influence of St. Gregory the Great
… forth a rich harvest. Europe at the close of the sixth century cannot be studied intelligently without surveying the life of the first Mediaeval Pope.
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The Relations of Saint Gregory the Great, while Pope, with the Imperial Exarch of Ravenna (590-604): Based on the Correspondences
In the sixth century the Roman Empire was in a deplorable state. For more than a hundred years, Italy had been divided between the Lombards and the Empire: The king of the Lombards lived at Pavia, the Imperial Exarch at Ravenna. The Emperor of Byzantium ruled over Romagna, Ferrara, and five cities …
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Mens immobilis. Recherches sur le corpus latin des actes et passions d'Afrique romaine (IIe-VIe siècles)
… Roman North Africa, dated from the second to the sixth century. None synthesis on this corpus had been made since P. Monceaux’s work in the early twentieth century. In the first part, all the latin texts were collected, together with a translation and an exhaustive research of the sources : for …
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Just Deserts: Losing Origen and Gaining Retributive Judgment in the Hagiographical Literature of the Early Byzantine World
… retributive through its progression toward the sixth century. A major focus of the argument will be the influence that Origen had on Christian theological interpretation. Beginning with a section on Origen, this research will move on through the five most prominent hagiographical compilations in …
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Cultural identities as reflected in the literature of the Northern and Southern dynasties period (4th-6th centuries A.D.)
… This thesis uses three books written in the sixth century to discuss how educated Chinese faced identity problems and how they dealt with them. The Buddhist monk Huijiao, dealt with the problems of sinifying a foreign religion. He constructed many different identities in addition to the …
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