This paper presents three computer games that are used in the teaching of ancient numismatics.All three applications-Craveler,NumisGames,and Graveler-were developed within the last years with the aim of teaching stude...This paper presents three computer games that are used in the teaching of ancient numismatics.All three applications-Craveler,NumisGames,and Graveler-were developed within the last years with the aim of teaching students numismatics through a playful approach.The different didactic goals,learning conditions,and outcomes are summarized and discussed.展开更多
This article examines the use of digital tools in research related to and the teaching of Byzantine Studies,a field with a strong scholarly tradition but often limited resources.Drawing on personal experiences from th...This article examines the use of digital tools in research related to and the teaching of Byzantine Studies,a field with a strong scholarly tradition but often limited resources.Drawing on personal experiences from the University of Cologne,the authors present a case study which considers how digital approaches might contribute to the field’s sustainability and broader accessibility.This case study focuses on two initiatives–DigiByzSeal and DiBS–which apply digital methods to related areas such as sigillography,epigraphy,numismatics,and manuscript studies,particularly in the context of teaching.Special attention is given to a workshop hosted by the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations(IHAC),Northeast Normal University(NENU)in Changchun(China),where students–many of whom being new to the subject–tested XML-based tools in a classroom setting.The article looks at how this workshop functioned in practice and argues that using digital methods in teaching not only raises the profile of Byzantine Studies but also contributes to broader methodological innovation in the Humanities.展开更多
This concise paper,delivered at a conference,addresses a broad topic with the goal of providing a condensed and inevitably subjective perspective.Initially,it outlines the primary characteristics that distinguish coin...This concise paper,delivered at a conference,addresses a broad topic with the goal of providing a condensed and inevitably subjective perspective.Initially,it outlines the primary characteristics that distinguish coins from other historical sources.Subsequently,it provides a succinct overview of numismatics,categorized into seven phases:1.Pre-1550(coins as reflections of vice and virtue);2.From circa 1550 to circa 1620(coins as testimony of authentic history);3.From circa 1650 to circa 1730(the heyday of the“Republic of Medals”);4.From circa 1730 to circa 1840(the decline of the“Republic of Medals”and the emergence of scientific practices by Viennese Jesuits);5.From circa 1840 to circa 1940(die-studies and art history);6.From circa 1940 to circa 2000(coins as instruments of exchange);7.Since 2000(cultural shift and digital humanities).展开更多
Soon after Roman mint masters began issuing the silver denarius （traditional date 187 B.C.）, they discovered that they could employ coinage as newspapers and PR by individualizing the imagery on each side of the coi...Soon after Roman mint masters began issuing the silver denarius （traditional date 187 B.C.）, they discovered that they could employ coinage as newspapers and PR by individualizing the imagery on each side of the coin with references to their ancestry, current events, and/or their religious offices to increase their name recognition in order to win votes. It should come as no surprise that the Divine Julius ordered his mint masters to issue coinage that advertised all of the above features to circulate his good reputation in what our modern political scientists would call propaganda. After Julius＇ enemies began to attack his reputation, some of his partisans boasted of their closeness to him on coinage by recycling specific coin images. What is surprising is how these partisans adopted the exact imagery Julius had used to advertise his own religious résumé on their coinage, even though these religious images could not and did not apply to them specifically. Apparently, Julius＇ religious résumé no longer demonstrated a religious portfolio, but had transformed into a badge of partisanship, however thinly it applied, so that the religious symbols themselves retained only the function of an association with Julius without their original and intrinsic meaning.展开更多
This article aims to make a brief presentation on the elements of material culture in the ancient Palestinian region,mainly coins,which were removed from their production context and placed in funerary contexts(coins ...This article aims to make a brief presentation on the elements of material culture in the ancient Palestinian region,mainly coins,which were removed from their production context and placed in funerary contexts(coins were often buried in graves),thus converted in amulets,acquiring magical and apotropaic senses.We will use examples verified in different parts of the Roman Empire,as in Pithekússai(modest island,which is in the Italian Peninsula),on the banks of the Thames,in Celtic contexts,more specifically in the current city of Lezoux,France,in the ancient city of Aquincum,present day Budapest,also in Tel Maresha and Tiberias,present-day Israel,to demonstrate how these practices were recurrent throughout the Empire.It is also our intention to observe iconographic elements that bring apotropaic content in their formulations,because,in addition to the role that coins could play in connecting the worlds of men and gods,many people believed that they had the power to project magical and apotropaic strength through images powerful that they portrayed.展开更多
文摘This paper presents three computer games that are used in the teaching of ancient numismatics.All three applications-Craveler,NumisGames,and Graveler-were developed within the last years with the aim of teaching students numismatics through a playful approach.The different didactic goals,learning conditions,and outcomes are summarized and discussed.
基金supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG),Award Number:469385434the Agence Nationale de la Recherche(ANR),Award Number:ANR-21-FRAL-0008the VolkswagenStiftung,Award Number:9B 191.
文摘This article examines the use of digital tools in research related to and the teaching of Byzantine Studies,a field with a strong scholarly tradition but often limited resources.Drawing on personal experiences from the University of Cologne,the authors present a case study which considers how digital approaches might contribute to the field’s sustainability and broader accessibility.This case study focuses on two initiatives–DigiByzSeal and DiBS–which apply digital methods to related areas such as sigillography,epigraphy,numismatics,and manuscript studies,particularly in the context of teaching.Special attention is given to a workshop hosted by the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations(IHAC),Northeast Normal University(NENU)in Changchun(China),where students–many of whom being new to the subject–tested XML-based tools in a classroom setting.The article looks at how this workshop functioned in practice and argues that using digital methods in teaching not only raises the profile of Byzantine Studies but also contributes to broader methodological innovation in the Humanities.
文摘This concise paper,delivered at a conference,addresses a broad topic with the goal of providing a condensed and inevitably subjective perspective.Initially,it outlines the primary characteristics that distinguish coins from other historical sources.Subsequently,it provides a succinct overview of numismatics,categorized into seven phases:1.Pre-1550(coins as reflections of vice and virtue);2.From circa 1550 to circa 1620(coins as testimony of authentic history);3.From circa 1650 to circa 1730(the heyday of the“Republic of Medals”);4.From circa 1730 to circa 1840(the decline of the“Republic of Medals”and the emergence of scientific practices by Viennese Jesuits);5.From circa 1840 to circa 1940(die-studies and art history);6.From circa 1940 to circa 2000(coins as instruments of exchange);7.Since 2000(cultural shift and digital humanities).
文摘Soon after Roman mint masters began issuing the silver denarius （traditional date 187 B.C.）, they discovered that they could employ coinage as newspapers and PR by individualizing the imagery on each side of the coin with references to their ancestry, current events, and/or their religious offices to increase their name recognition in order to win votes. It should come as no surprise that the Divine Julius ordered his mint masters to issue coinage that advertised all of the above features to circulate his good reputation in what our modern political scientists would call propaganda. After Julius＇ enemies began to attack his reputation, some of his partisans boasted of their closeness to him on coinage by recycling specific coin images. What is surprising is how these partisans adopted the exact imagery Julius had used to advertise his own religious résumé on their coinage, even though these religious images could not and did not apply to them specifically. Apparently, Julius＇ religious résumé no longer demonstrated a religious portfolio, but had transformed into a badge of partisanship, however thinly it applied, so that the religious symbols themselves retained only the function of an association with Julius without their original and intrinsic meaning.
文摘This article aims to make a brief presentation on the elements of material culture in the ancient Palestinian region,mainly coins,which were removed from their production context and placed in funerary contexts(coins were often buried in graves),thus converted in amulets,acquiring magical and apotropaic senses.We will use examples verified in different parts of the Roman Empire,as in Pithekússai(modest island,which is in the Italian Peninsula),on the banks of the Thames,in Celtic contexts,more specifically in the current city of Lezoux,France,in the ancient city of Aquincum,present day Budapest,also in Tel Maresha and Tiberias,present-day Israel,to demonstrate how these practices were recurrent throughout the Empire.It is also our intention to observe iconographic elements that bring apotropaic content in their formulations,because,in addition to the role that coins could play in connecting the worlds of men and gods,many people believed that they had the power to project magical and apotropaic strength through images powerful that they portrayed.
