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Die Monographie versteht sich als Begleitband zur fünfbändigen Ausgabe der ,Ethnika' (2006-2017) und will gleichzeitig das Lexikon einer breiteren altertumswissenschaftlich interessierten Leserschaft erschliessen. Unter Justinian als ,Grammatikos' an der Kaiserlichen Hochschule in Konstantinopel tätig, beschliesst Stephanos die Tradition der alexandrinischen Philologie und fasst das gelehrte Erbe der Antike nochmals zusammen. Aufgefächert nach thematischen Aspekten, wie Attische Demen, Eponyme und Namensetymologien, Gründungslegenden, Umbenennungen verzeichneter Städte, berühmte Bürger, Mirabilien und Proverbien, stellt der Band den kulturwissenschaftlichen Informationsschatz der ,Ethnika' vor, auch wenn diese bloss in einer verkürzten Fassung auf uns gekommen sind. Die Rezeption des Lexikons in mittelbyzantinischer Zeit und in der Renaissance wird anhand von Eustathios, Ermolao Barbaro, Erasmus und weiteren belesenen Autoren nachgezeichnet. The Ethnica by Stephanus of Byzantium constitute a dictionary of geography and cultural history from the Justinian period that has been transmitted to us in abridged form. They record place names and terms of belonging (ethnica), generally using "es from source authors. Alongside their value as a source of lexicographical information, where authors' works have been lost, the Ethnica are hugely significant as a source of fragments.

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book uncovers cultural traces of the ancient Jewry of Eastern Europe from the 10th to 15th centuries. These traces take the form of translations from Hebrew into East Slavic, ranging from accounts of Old Testament prophets and other historical figures of interest to both Jews and Christians, such as Alexander the Great, to scientific and philosophical texts on everything from astronomy to physiognomy to metaphysics. Moshe Taube’s fine-grained analysis teases out a robust picture of this massive cultural enterprise: the translators, their erudition, their biases, and their collaborative method of translation with neighboring Christians. Summarizing over thirty years of philological and linguistic research, this book offers a substantial original contribution to the cultural history of Jews in Eastern Europe and their interaction with, and influence on, Slavic culture in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period.

Jews --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- History.

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At the end of the Western Middle Ages, the new notions of the legitimacy of royal power and its exercise were made more visible by the presence of royal favourites whose figure should be reconsidered. The present study links the reproach of sexual misconduct as a political argument in medieval discourse to medieval ideas about royalty and government, opening new perspectives of a cultural history of politics in the Later Middle Ages.

Constitutional history, Medieval.