Diss.--Rechts- und staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät--Bonn--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 1994. / Contient un choix de documents. Bibliogr. p. 125-137. Index.

Basé sur : Doct-Diss. : Philos. : Cambridge, Mass. : 1978. / Bibliogr. p. 219-231. Glossaire. Index.

Diss.--Universität München, 1994. Titre de soutenance : Das Zollwesen im Fränkischen Reich und seine Bedeutung für das spätkarolingische Wirtschaftsleben. / Bibliogr. p. 237-266.

Texte révisé de: Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät--Universität des Saarlandes, 1988. / Bibliogr. p. 323-343. Index.

Diss.--Juristische Fakultät--Göttingen--Georg August-Universität, 1996. / Contient une chronologie. Bibliogr. p. 623-665. Index.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät--Frankfurt am Main--Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, 1963. / Bibliogr. p. VII-XVII. Notes bibliogr. Index.

This thesis explores the intersection of indigeneity and modernity in early-twentieth-century North America by examining Native Americans in competitive running arenas in both domestic and international settings. Historians have analyzed sports to understand central facets of this intersection, including race, gender, nationalism, assimilation, and resistance. But running, specifically, embodies what was both indigenous and modern, a symbol of both racial and national worth at a time when those categories coexisted uneasily. The narrative follows one main case study: the “Redwood Highway Indian Marathon,” a 480-mile footrace from San Francisco, California, to Grants Pass, Oregon, contested between Native Americans from Northern California and New Mexico in 1927 and 1928. That race and others reveal how indigenous runners asserted both Native and modern American/Canadian/Mexican identities through sport, how mainstream societies understood modern indigenous people, and to what extent those societies embraced images of “Indianness” in regional and national identities, economies, and cultures.

This dissertation traces the complex ways in which non-European military cultures - often designated as 'savage' - and the expeditions undertaken against them - regularly conceptualised as 'savage warfare' - were understood in the Victorian imagination. It addresses how these understandings shifted across time in relation to developments such as imperial expansion; cultural and intellectual shifts including the rise of evolutionary theory; and the practical issues that emerged in response to the undertaking of wars where such opponents were met on the field of battle. It is distinctive in working at the intersection of nineteenth-century intellectual, cultural, imperial and military history, and utilises a wide range of sources. The nineteenth century was a unique period during which this eclectic and differentiated debate - which both explored and contributed to the construction of ideas on 'savagery' - arose due to the proliferation of cross-cultural knowledge and the development of periodical culture. As members of the armed forces were on the front-line of cross-cultural interactions, the military context shines a light on the richness of this discourse and helps to frame a complex debate about the boundaries between 'civilisation' and 'savagery'. While understandings of 'savagery' that embodied assumptions of ruthlessness, bloodthirstiness, and a lack of moral understanding can be traced in British perceptions of 'savage' warriors during this period, this dissertation argues that the designation of a warrior culture as 'savage' was not uncontested, nor did it preclude the admission of 'civilised' characteristics, or criticisms with regard to British conduct in 'savage' wars. By uncovering the competing discourses on how 'savage' warriors were perceived during this period, this dissertation reinforces critiques of the 'cultural determinist' notion that military cultures are fixed; emphasises the lack of coherence with regard to British perceptions of 'savage' warriors, thus contributing to scholarship that has identified the inconsistent nature of 'orientalism'; and challenges conventional periodisation of the development of colonial racism and anti-humanitarianism during the nineteenth century.

The name, title, literary persona and office of Vegetius are discussed in ch. 1, and although a firm decision is unjustified, comes stabuli seems bettter-attested than praefectus praetorio, come sacrarum largitionum or comes rei privatae. It is suggested that 'Vegetius' is only a cognomen to a true gentilicium 'Flavius'. The author's self-presentation as the Emperor's director of studies-cum-secretary is noticed. Ch. 2 provisionally locates Vegetius in Spanish horse-breeding senatorial circles, and treats his conventional Latin education with little or no Greek, his Vergil-reverence and orthodox Christianity. The date of Vegetius' Epitoma Rei Militaris is analysed in ch. 3 as being before the sack of Rome but in the aftermath of the battle of Adrianople. The Emperor-dedicatee is provisionally identified as Theodosius I. Scholarly debate on the question is thoroughly aired. The genre, literary persona and date of the Anonymus De Rebus Bellicis are argued in ch. 4 against the comparison of Vegetius. The Anonymus is characterized as a thaumaturgical sophist who complied his 'inventions' from older mechanical sources. A late-4th. or early 5th. century date is supported in opposition to the A.D. 360's. Ch. 5 argues that Vegetius' Epitome was intended to describe a Republican legionary organization adapted to late-antique Field armies with the unstated aim of reversing in detail and with specific advantages in mind the rapidly increasing barbarization of the army. Ch. 6 addresses the extent to which tactics and strategic constraints, arms and equipment and siegecraft were understood by Vegetius in contemporary terms, particularly as shown by Ammianus Marcellinus. It is argued in ch. 7 that the sources Vegetius used were late epitomes of the named sources, Cato, Celsus, Frontinus and Paternus, apart from Varro whom he used directly. Massive authorial intervention by Vegetius in the organization and content of the text is analysed.

D.Litt. et Phil. / The aim of the present thesis has been to examine the course of Christianity and civilization in the medieval kingdoms of Nubia, in relation to the developments in the Byzantine Empire during the same period; that is, to look into the direct and indirect influences exerted by Byzantium on Nubia, at both political and cultural level. The study departs from the observation that there is a significantly close parallelism between the Nubian and the Byzantine history. More specifically, following the 7th century Arabic expansion, the Christian statal entities of Nubia and the Byzantium seem to run a parallel course, with rather similar fluctuations. Thus, there is a time when, initially, both Byzantium and Nubia – to a varying degree and in different ways – rally their forces against the Arabic threat. This is followed by a period of prosperity and growth, leading up to the 11th century and, finally, from the 12th century onwards, starts a gradual decadence that reaches its breaking point with the overthrow of both the Byzantine Empire and the remaining Christian statal formations of Nubia by the Ottomans. By way of conclusion then, we will summarise the most important observations and assumptions the present research has led to. Firstly, throughout the course of this study, the main goal has been to examine in juxtaposition and to correlate the developments in Nubia and Byzantium, through their relations with the Islamic world and its activity in the Mediterranean, and to ascertain whether there are substantial and considerable interrelations. At what time, to what extent and in what way did the Byzantine-Islamic relations affect the course of the Medieval Christian Kingdoms of Nubia? While various hypotheses have been formulated regarding the interrelation between Byzantium and Nubia, the issue has not as yet been subjected to a thorough and long-term study. The present dissertation intends to fill in this gap in research, thus contributing to a better understanding of the Nubian history.