A dangerous book: the reception of the <i>Germania</i>

Krebs, Christopher B.

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“…Many of the general themes that are sources of vibrant debate in other parts of the worldfor example whether emphasis is placed on the study of individuals and small groups or on larger collectivities, or on questions of meaning as opposed to external causalities of changehave resulted as yet in little sustained debate in archaeology in the Middle East.' 23 Possibly this is a result of the role of colonialism and the Bible in 20Krebs (2009) provides a fascinating narrative of the influence of Tacitus' Germania in the development of modern German notions of racial purity from the fifteenth century through to the twentieth century ideology of National Socialism.…”

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Cultural identity in the Roman Near East: An historiographical exercise

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<p>The central premise of this thesis is that the concepts of hellenisation and romanisation are no longer useful as interpretive models of the Graeco-Roman Near East. Through most of the twentieth century they did good service generating research questions and providing innovative explanations of both existing and new data. On the one hand the notion of hellenisation focused attention on the historical importance of cultural change in the Hellenistic period, while the concept of romanisation focused scholarly attention on life in the provinces rather than on the court life of the imperial city and highlighted the importance of epigraphy and archaeology as against the philological study of literary texts. But the underlying assumptions of both concepts — the superiority of Graeco-Roman culture, the 'civilising' role of the intrusive powers, the passivity of the indigenous peoples of the region, the notion that Greek, Roman and Semitic cultures are bounded entities — are now dated. In the first part of the thesis I deconstruct the concepts of hellenisation and romanisation in detail and then develop an alternative framework which is avowedly postmodern and interdisciplinary, eschews eurocentrism, and uses postcolonial concepts as well as insights from modern social theory. In the second part of the thesis I use the alternative framework to review the evidence relating to the provincial city of Gerasa in the Roman province of Arabia. Looked at through this alternative prism it has been possible to offer some different readings of the evidence not apparent in earlier interpretations. In particular, in using the concepts of resistant strategy and cultural imperialism to discuss the emergence of the Antonine period city plan, I challenge the traditional view of Hadrian's urbanisation policy.</p>

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Justus Georgius Schottelius (1612–1676) and European Linguistic Thought

McLelland

2010

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Summary This article re-evaluates the significance of the 17th-century grammarian Justus Georgius Schottelius (1612–1676) not just for German linguistic thought (where the importance of his cultural-patriotic Spracharbeit and his contribution to grammatography and lexicography is undisputed), but also in Europe more widely. Contributing to the complex story of the rootword in European linguistic thought, it also demonstrates how the notion of grammatical analogy which Schottelius took from Vossius was applied, through his influence, in grammars of Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Russian, and how his development of the humanist cultural-patriotic concept of the rootword influenced debates on the origin of language, and European studies of the Semitic and even Sanskrit languages.

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Justus Georgius Schottelius (1612–1676) and European Linguistic Thought

McLelland¹

2010

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A dangerous book: the reception of the Germania

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Cultural identity in the Roman Near East: An historiographical exercise

Cultural identity in the Roman Near East: An historiographical exercise

Justus Georgius Schottelius (1612–1676) and European Linguistic Thought

Justus Georgius Schottelius (1612–1676) and European Linguistic Thought

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