Themes in European History: Essays from the 2nd International Conference on European History

Edited by Michael Aradas & Nicholas C.J. Pappas

ISBN: 960-88672-7-4, 450 pages, Hardback

First published in 2005 by ATINER

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PREFACE                                                                                                    

 G. T. Papanikos 

i

 

         

 

INTRODUCTION & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

iii

  N. Pappas

 

         

 

PART I –ANCIENT CULTURE AND SOCIETY       

 

           

 

 Mourning Rites into Religious Rites: The Roman Supplication and its Near       Eastern Affiliations

1

 J. Koenig  

 

         

 

 The Political Role of the Sophists in the Oligarchic Coups of 411 and 404   BCE in Athens

17

 D. Grey     

 

         

 

Oh Mist! Science, Religion and History in Aristophanes’ Clouds

33

 J. Lewis      

 

         

 

When Worlds Collide: Life and Death in Buddhist and Epicurean Thought

49

 G. S. Beirich       

 

 

 

Akropolis Korai as Cultural Historical Sign Vehicle: The Other and the Demos

63

 D. Dvorsky-Rohner        

 

         

 

Aphrodite’s Bath: Mediating Difference in Classical Antiquity     

75

 A. A. Gill   

 

         

 

PART II –PERSONALITIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

 

         

 

Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Judicial Assemblies  

89

 E. M. Anson       

 

           

 

Moses -Through Hellenistic-Tinted Eyes   

97

 M. M. Eisman       

 

 

 

Hannibal Crosses the Alps: Charting the Changing Perceptions of the Hannibal Figure in Polybius, Livy and other Ancient Sources

111

 F. A. Billot   

 

           

 

PART III –THE HELLENIC CULTURAL TRADITION IN MODERN EUROPE      

 

 

Ethnicity, Citizenship, and the Games in Ancient Hellas and the Modern World

 

119

 K. A. Thomas       

 

 

 

 Dulce Bellum Inexpertis: Stoicism, Erasmia Humanism and the Western    Peace Ethic      

125

 B. Lowe    

 

           

 

“Mothering” Mother Earth: the Path of the Nurturing Matriarch

from Ancient Greece to the 19th Century Parisian Salon

137

 S. C. Burns        

 

           

 

Classical Nazis, Modern Romans: Antiquity, Dictatorship and the

Masses

157

 J. Nelis       

 

 

 

PART IV – ASPECTS OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY   

 

         

 

The Legend of Charlemagne: Entertainment or Crusade Propaganda?          

173

 J. Stuckey 

 

         

 

Intellectual Relations Between the Latin Empire of Constantinople

and the University of Paris

183

 A. G. Traver       

 

         

 

The Cradle of Globalisation:  Venice’s and Portugal’s Contribution to a World Becoming Global     

191

 A. Exenberger    

 

         

 

PART V – ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY IN UKRAINE        

 

         

 

The Origin and Characteristic Features of the Early Urbanisation of

the Kyivan Rus’

209

 M. Sahaydak and V. Zotsenko        

 

           

 

Tustan’:  A Cliff-Side Fortress of the Kyivan Rus’ of Ukraine

225

 M. F. Rozhko       

 

 

 

Archaeological Investigation of the Monumental Architecture of the Principality of Halych, 12th-13th Centuries A.D.

239

 Y. Lukomskyy      

 

 

 

The Politics and Reality of Archaeology in Contemporary Post-Soviet Ukraine

255

 M. Stachiw

 

         

 

PART VI – SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE        

 

 

 

Hunting and Social Violence in France, 1450-1550: La Chase Déstructif

273

 M. Aradas   

 

 

 

“Where Shall we Find an Honest Judge?”: Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert (1522-1590) and his Idea of Spiritual Freedom as a Turning Point in Early Modern Europe

283

 G. Voogt   

 

         

 

Seventeenth-Century Miracle Healings of Children in the Southern Alps         

293

 J. Barry Davis      

 

 

 

 Witch-Hunt Historiography from the 18th Century Encyclopaedias to

 the Present Research: A New Geography

299

 M. Nenonen

 

 

 

PART VII – ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN EUROPEAN HISTORY 

 

           

 

 Jesuit Ideals and Catholic Reformation Orthodoxy: A Reading of the

Early Church Fathers in the Ceiling Panels of the Jesuit Church at

Antwerp

317

 B. M. Fahy  

 

 

 

 A Unique Approach to the Revival Architecture of Istanbul:  The Fener    Greek Male High School (Megale tou Genous Schole) and the Architect Dimadis

329

 E. A. Şarlak 

 

 

 

Ukrainian Folk Art:  Its Origin, and Social and Political Changes.           

345

 M. Selivatchov     

 

 

 

PART VIII – STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE   

 

         

 

Fiery Debate:  The Need to Use the Portuguese Dry Ports as a Way of Channelling Consular Duties to the Spanish Consuls Based in Portugal (1722 -1841)

363

 M. C. Moreira       

 

 

 

The Archaeology of Words: A Bird’s Eye View into the Historical Texts in Transylvania (the 18th Century)

371

 A-M. Roman-Negoi, I. Marza and L. Stanciu       

 

 

 

The Achievement of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte and the Second Empire: Balancing Liberty and Authority

383

 G.M.W. Kennedy  

 

 

 

PART IX – STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY EUROPE  

 

 

 

The Hellenization of Sephardic Jews in Thessaloniki in the Interwar Period, 1917-1941       

401

 K. Lagos     

 

 

 

Red Monks and Nuns? Russian Orthodox Monastery Collective Farms in the Soviet Union, 1917-1928

407

 J. Wynot   

 

 

 

Twentieth Century Russia as Viewed from Russian Communist Archives:  The Interwar Period, 1917-39

417

 A. Pantsov

 

 

 

Friedrich Rainer and the Paradox of Austrian National Socialism

427

 M. Williams 

 

 

 

The Question of the “Other” – Scandinavian Identity and the Image of Eastern Europe and America         

439

 V. Vares