Stefan Brink

Hartmut Rensen

The work of the German Federal Constitutional Court has a significant effect on all three branches of government. While public interest and the media primarily focus their attention on spectacular court decisions, the academic study of law strives to record, analyze, and structure the case law of the Federal Constitutional Court in its entirety. Research associates are the first to observe patterns and trends in case law and follow them in their work. From this intimate perspective, this volume strives to address central, characteristic, and significant topics and questions and discuss them at an academic level. The contributions to this volume range from judgment discussions to summaries of case law. The particular value of this volume lies in its presentation: it is court employees themselves that present the reader with background information as well as trends in constitutional case law and the current and practical bearing on the activities of other branches of government.

Linien der Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts - erörtert von den wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern

Judy Quinn

John Hines

The conception of the field is broad, extending chronologically from the Viking Age and the sources of Viking activity to the end of the medieval period. The multidisciplinary focus will be enhanced by a newsletter section in future issues, in which recent discoveries, major publications and updates on long-term projects will be reported.

Viking and Medieval Scandinavia

Neil Price

Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field. Bringing together today’s leading scholars, both established seniors and younger, cutting-edge academics, Stefan Brink and Neil Price have constructed the first single work to gather innovative research from a spectrum of disciplines (including archaeology, history, philology, comparative religion, numismatics and cultural geography) to create the most comprehensive Viking Age book of its kind ever attempted. Consisting of longer articles providing overviews of important themes, supported by shorter papers focusing on material of particular interest, this comprehensive volume covers such wide-ranging topics as social institutions, spatial issues, the Viking Age economy, warfare, beliefs, language, voyages, and links with medieval and Christian Europe. This original work, specifically oriented towards a university audience and the educated public, will have a self-evident place as an undergraduate course book and will be a standard work of reference for all those in the field.

The Viking World

Slavery in Europe during antiquity and the first millennium -- Scandinavian slavery -- Where did the slaves come from? -- Thralls in Old Norse poetry and sagas -- Thralls in runic inscriptions -- Terms for thralls and their meanings -- How were thralls used? -- Evidence for thralls in Scandinavian place-names -- How were thralls identified? -- Thralls' names in Scandinavia -- The special case of Älmeboda parish in southern Småland -- Thralls in the archaeological material - Can we excavate slavery? -- The rise and fall of Scandinavian thraldom - when did slavery appear in Scandinavia? -- The status of slaves in Prehistoric Scandinavian society.

A History of Slavery in the Viking Age

Thraldom

Stephen A. Mitchell

Jürg Glauser

Joseph Harris

Pernille Hermann

Studies in Honour of Stephen A. Mitchell

Myth, Magic, and Memory in Early Scandinavian Narrative Culture

Astrid van Nahl

Lennart Elmevik

Namenwelten ist eine breit angelegte Dokumentation zu Namen und Namenforschung im deutsch-skandinavischen Raum. Einen Schwerpunkt bilden Beiträge, die Fragen nach Herkunft, Entstehung und Bildungsweise von Ortsnamen nachgehen und dabei umfangreiches neues onymisches Material vorstellen. Die Erforschung der Personennamen umfasst auch theoretisch-methodische Aspekte, allgemeine Prinzipien sowie Kontinuität und Tradition der Namengebung. Eine Reihe runologisch orientierter Artikel widmet sich den in Runeninschriften überlieferten Namen und verknüpft sie mit sprach(geschicht)lichen Problemen; dabei werden in Einzelfragen auch benachbarte Forschungsgebiete gestreift. Der Index erschließt annähernd 5000 Orts- und Personennamen.

Orts- und Personennamen in historischer Sicht

Namenwelten

Stefan Brink

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