The fall of Merovingian Italy, 561–5
After the end of the Gothic War in the mid‐sixth century, northern Italy remained divided between the Merovingian Franks and the eastern Roman Empire. In the 560s the Frankish territories were finally taken by imperial armies, but the end of Merovingian Italy is variably dated between 561 and 565.
Sihong Lin
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This paper aims to shed light on the mobility of people and relics in the seventh century. It will show that Emperor Heraclius strategically designed his movements and those of his household, citizens, and officials, as well as those of relics within and beyond the borders of Byzantium, in order to consolidate the empire and his position in it.
Paraskevi Sykopetritou
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The Ghost and the Rock: Albert Renger‐Patzsch and the Shape of Time
The career of photographer Albert Renger‐Patzsch began in the early 1920s in the storerooms of Germany's ethnographic museums, and ended in 1966 with the publication of his last photobook, Gestein (Rock). His reputation as a leading exponent of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) developed in tandem with heated debates over sculptural facsimiles and ...
Megan R. Luke
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This article addresses Salvian of Marseille’s treatise on God’s governance (De gubernatione Dei), one of the most important sources for the Germanic peoples’ period of migration at the beginning of the fifth century. It focuses in particular on Salvian’s critique of public entertainment, in the middle of Book VI.
Jonathan Stutz
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NEUE MENSCHEN, NEUE POETEN: EXPRESSIONISMUS, GENIE UND ARBEITERDICHTUNG
ABSTRACT While the German Expressionists announced an end to bourgeois art, hopes of a literary revolution also rose in the labour movement. Since the 1910s, worker poets, such as Gerrit Engelke and Karl Bröger; literary critics, such as Julius Bab; and leading political figures of the Social Democratic Party such as Clara Zetkin, proclaimed a poetical
Annika Hildebrandt
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Political discourse in football coverage : the cases of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana [PDF]
Football coverage in newspapers is both an arena for and a mirror of political discourse within a society. The paper argues that discourses within football coverage referring to political issues reflect dominant – and, possibly, contesting – “truths ...
Mehler, Andreas
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Die Rolle von Religionen in Gewaltkonflikten und Friedensprozessen. 2. Interdisziplinärer Workshop von DSF, EAD und FEST zur Einrichtung eines multidisziplinären Forschungsverbundes "Religion und Konflikt" am 12. und 13. Mai 2006 in Loccum [PDF]
Minor child physical abuse has decreased in Sweden since 1979, when a law banning corporal punishment of children was passed, but more serious forms have not decreased.
Annerbäck, Eva-Maria +2 more
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Erweitertes Literatur- und Archivalienverzeichnis zu: Holger Gast, Antonia Leugers, August H. Leugers-Scherzberg, Uwe Sandfuchs: Katholische Missionsschulen in Deutschland 1887-1940, Bad Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt 2013 [PDF]
Bei dieser Online-Ressource handelt es sich um das erweiterte Literatur- und Archivalienverzeichnis zu der Studie: Holger Gast, Antonia Leugers, August H.
Gast, Holger +3 more
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Crafting political institutions in Africa : electoral systems and systems of government in Rwanda and Zambia compared [PDF]
Scholars of institutional design attribute large importance to the choice of new institutions. The comparative analysis of how Rwanda and Zambia crafted their new electoral systems and the systems of government regards procedural, structural and rational
Stroh, Alexander
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Entwicklungschancen von Demokratie und Föderalismus in einem Entwicklungsland am Beispiel des Sudan im Vergleich zu Nigeria und Südafrika [PDF]
Im Rahmen diese Arbeit wurden die politischen Systeme der Länder Süd-Afrika, Nigeria und Sudan vorgestellt und miteinander verglichen. Den drei Staaten ist gemeinsam, dass sie eine heterogene Gesellschaft aufweisen.
Ali Abdelrahman, Zakaria Mohamed +1 more
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