The Formation and Transformation of Space and
Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations
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  • About
  • Research
    • Topoi I (2007-12)
      • Spatial Environment
      • Historical Spaces
      • Perception and Representation
      • Theory and Science
      • Transformations
    • Topoi II (2012–2019)
      • Spatial Environment
      • Historical Space
      • Perception and Representation
      • Theory and Science
      • Topoi Plus
      • Key Topics
      • Topoi Lab
      • Forum – Spatial Data Analysis
      • TOPOImap und TOPOIorganon
    • Early Career and professorships
  • Knowledge Transfer
    • Publications
      • Publication Database
    • Edition Topoi
      • Open Access
      • Book Series
      • eTopoi
      • Data Publication
    • Events
    • Teaching
    • Dialog
      • Spotlight on …
      • Journalist in Residence
      • Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
    • Exhibitions
      • KTESIPHON
      • LIENZO SELER II
      • The Soul is an Octopus
      • THRAKISCHE MÜNZEN
      • Forum Romanum 3.0.
      • MUSEUMSVISIONEN
      • ANTIKE BAUFORSCHUNG
      • IRON METALLURGY
      • Jenseits des Horizonts
      • Auf den Kopf gestellt!
      • Antike Welten
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  • Research Projects

  • (B-1-1) Waterways: border, access, infrastructures
  • (B-1-2) Legislation and Adjudication of "Water Law"
  • (B-1-3) Infrastructure of the late antiquity as early medieval governance resource: Continuity and transformation
  • (B-1-4) Infrastructures from judicial, gromatic and political perspectives
  • (B-1-5) Edition Miliaria provinciarum Hispanarum
    A Critical Edition of the Inscriptions from Roman Milestones in Hispania
  • (B-1-6) Die bildliche Darstellung von Raum in der Tabula Peutingeriana: Aneignung durch Kartographie?
  • (B-2-1) Roms "Größe" – von Großbaustellen, megalo-manen Bauprojekten und der Normalität kaiserlicher Bautätigkeit
  • (B-2-2) Monumentality as policy? The organization and function of oversized building projects in the ancient East
  • (B-2-3) Big buildings – big architecture? The cultural significance of size in the architecture of the ancient Near East
  • (B-2-4) Scythian tombs – between monumentality and gigantomania
  • (B-2-5) The ritual landscape in the area of the royal tomb of Seddin in the Prignitz
  • (B-2-6) The borders of Rome
  • (B-2-7) Resafa-Sergiupolis – Rusafat Hisham/Syria. Large Technical Infrastructure
  • (B-3-1) Economic theology / theological economy
  • (B-3-2) Oikonomia Rossica: genealogy and poetology of economical thought in Russia
  • (B-3-3) The Soul as Economic Space
  • (B-3-4) Parasitic Economies
  • (B-3-5) Aristoteles' Oikonomika
  • (B-3-6) Poetological Household Management
  • (B-3-7) Economic and social reproduction. The transformations of “Chrematistics”
  • (B-3-8) Oikonomia and Agora
  • (B-3-9) Aristotelian economics. Epistemic and normative aspects of Aristotle’s theory of the household and the πόλις
  • (B-4-1) The art of conjuration – an example of the regionalization of "global" knowledge
  • (B-4-2) Region and memoria: Local history and local myths on Thracian provincial coins
  • (B-4-3) Migration narratives and landscape of identity
  • (B-4-4) Shifting things and identity
  • (B-4-5) Thirdspaces: The early 1st Millennium in northern Mesopotamia
  • (B-4-6) Deir Anba Hadra. Socio-cultural and economic significance of a holy place in Upper Egypt from late antiquity to early Mamluk period
  • (B-5-1) The personal authorization of knowledge in ancient succession narratives
  • (B-5-2) Personal and nonpersonal authority in ancient Greek theoretical knowledge
  • (B-5-3) Authorization of early Christian knowledge claims in Asia Minor and Greece
  • (B-5-4) Places and authorities of the Christianization of knowledge
  • (B-5-5) Basic structures of Jewish genealogies in Hellenistic times
  • (B-5-6) Auctoritates magicae. Edition of the curse tablets of Attica (Corpus defixionum Atticarum)
  • (B-5-7) Genealogical and dynastic space
  • (B-5-8) The Construction of Personal and Nonpersonal Authority
  • Dissertations

  • (B-1-1-1) Rule of the Sea: The Evolution and Transformation of an Ancient Concept from Thucydides to the later Roman Republic
  • (B-1-1-2) To the Ends of the Earth. The Book of Acts as Universal History in the context of Roman and Jewish Historiography during the Roman Imperial Era.
  • (B-1-1-3) Stable Systems? Risk and Uncertainty in the Ancient Economy
  • (B-1-1-4) Maritime Revolution? Sextus Pompeius and the genesis of the Principate
  • (B-1-3-1) Law and Border Policy in the Late Roman Cyrenaica
  • (B-1-3-2) Via Britannica: Continuity and change and the Roman infrastructure in Britain from the end of the 4th to the 9th century
  • (B-1-4-1) Legal systems of land use in the Roman colonies and in the province
  • (B-2-1-1) The Medialization of Monumentality. The Representation of the Greatness of Rome in the Post Classical Period in two and three-dimensional Media
  • (B-3-4-1) Parasitic Economies
  • (B-3-5-1) Oikonomia and Domestic Economy in Classical Greece
  • (B-4-1-1) The global ritual knowledge and the local ritual schools in the Hittite tradition
  • (B-4-4-1) Travelling Things: Thinking on the character of ‘Roman imports’ in Central Germany’s ‘Barbaricum’
  • (B-4-5-1) Thirdspace in Assyria and Urartu
  • (B-4-6-1) Deir Anba Hadra. A socio-cultural study
  • (B-4-6-2) A medieval workshop from Deir Anba Hadra (Assuan, Egypt)
  • (B-4-JRG-1) Studies of the Assyrian Royal Narrative’s Transtextual Poetics
  • (B-5-2-1) Medical Experts in Imperial China (10th to 19th centuries) – Competition, Legitimation, and Professionalization
  • (B-5-2-2) Literary studies on imperial Greek doxographical texts
  • (B-5-2-3) Diagrammatic issues concerning Aristotle
  • (B-5-3-1) Early Christianity in Galatia
  • (B-5-4-1) Early Christianity in the Kalykadnos valley and adjacent areas
  • (B-5-8-1) Authority and the authorization of knowledge in a sociological perspective
  • (Z-BerGSAS-X-15) Das frühe Christentum zwischen der Donau, der Ägäis und dem Schwarzen Meer (Moesia Secunda, Haemimontus, Thracia und Rhodope, 3.-6. Jh. n. Chr.)
  • Third-party Funded Projects

  • (B-2-8) The Socio-political Production of Minoan and Mycenaean Architecture. An Energetic Perspective
  • (B-2-9) Energetics Calculator for Ancient Buildings
  • (B-4-COFUND-1) Sense of place and identity in the prehistoric Mediterranean Islands
  • (B-4-COFUND-2) The land and its people. Quantifying environment impact on identity in the late iron age of Europe through modelling techniques
  • (B-5-COFUND-1) Eastern Promises of Salvation: Religious Authority, Spiritual Pedigree, and the Globalization of Knowledge in Ancient Asian Christianities, c. 100 - c. 400 CE
    Eastern Promises of Salvation: Religious Authority, Spiritual Pedigree, and the Globalization of Knowledge in Ancient Asian Christianities

Spokespersons

Markus Asper
Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum

Coordinators

Sandra Feix
Arianna Zischow

Groups

(B-1) Routes – Water – Knowledge
(B-2) XXL – Monumentalized Knowledge
(B-3) Oikonomia
(B-4) Spatial Identity
(B-5) Personal Authorization of Knowledge

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