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Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades. However, previous translations have either been broadly popular in nature or have failed to understand fully the colloquial qualities of the originals. This new version provides a complete Chinese/English edition of the poems, aimed at combining readability with scholarly accuracy. It will prove useful to students of Chinese poetry and of Chinese religion, as well as anyone interested in a better understanding of works that have proved so influential in the history of East Asian Buddhism and in world literature.

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Source:	OAPEN
Contributor:	Nugent, Christopher (Publisher)
Language:	English
Media type:	Ebook
Format:	Online
ISBN:	9781501501913; 9781501510564
Other identifier:	doi: 10.1515/9781501501913
Subjects:	Classical texts; Literature: history & criticism; Regional studies
Other subjects:	poetry; translation; Hanshan; Shide; Fenggan; Chinese; English
Scope:	1 electronic resource (423 p.)

Poems of Guido Gezelle: A Bilingual Anthology

Contributor: Vincent, Paul (Publisher)

Published: 2016

Publisher: UCL Press

The Bruges-born poet-priest Guido Gezelle (1830–1899) is generally considered one of the masters of nineteenth-century European lyric poetry. At the end of his life and in the first two decades of the twentieth century, Gezelle was hailed by the... more

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The Bruges-born poet-priest Guido Gezelle (1830–1899) is generally considered one of the masters of nineteenth-century European lyric poetry. At the end of his life and in the first two decades of the twentieth century, Gezelle was hailed by the avant-garde as the founder of modernFlemish poetry. His unique voice was belatedly recognised in the Netherlandsand often compared with his English contemporary Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889).In this bilingual anthology, award-winning translator Paul Vincent selects a representative picture of Gezelle’s output, from devotional through narrative, to celebratory and expressionistic. Gezelle’s favourite themes are childhood, the Flemish landscape, friendship, nature, religion and the Flemish vernacular, and his apparently simple poems conceal a sophisticated prosody and a dialogue with spiritual and literary tradition.

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Source:	OAPEN
Contributor:	Vincent, Paul (Publisher)
Language:	English
Media type:	Ebook
Format:	Online
Other identifier:	doi: 10.14324/111.9781910634943
Subjects:	Europe; Belgium; Luxembourg; Netherlands; English; Dutch; c 1800 to c 1900; Poetry
Other subjects:	european lyric poetry; low countries; guido gezelle; nature; Rhyme; Tim Van Eyken
Scope:	1 electronic resource (252 p.)

Stad en migratie in de literatuur

Contributor: Eeckhout, Bart (Publisher); Joosen, Vanessa (Publisher); Sepp, Arvi (Publisher)

Published: 2016

Publisher: Academia Press, Gent

Urbanity and migration are considered to be two basic components in definitions of modernity. They force us to reflect on how the boundaries between the local and the global are determined and surpassed. Often this results in politically charged... more

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Urbanity and migration are considered to be two basic components in definitions of modernity. They force us to reflect on how the boundaries between the local and the global are determined and surpassed. Often this results in politically charged discussions about transnationality and national identity, monolingualism and multilingualism, inclusion and exclusion. The contributions to this issue of CLW demonstrate that literature can play a significant role in this debate. The authors highlight the representation of city and migration in a wide variety of novels published in Dutch, English, German, Spanish and French with a particular interest in political commitment.

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Source:	OAPEN
Contributor:	Eeckhout, Bart (Publisher); Joosen, Vanessa (Publisher); Sepp, Arvi (Publisher)
Language:	Dutch; Dutch
Media type:	Ebook
Format:	Online
Subjects:	United Kingdom, Great Britain; c 1800 to c 1900; 20th century; Literature: history & criticism; Literary theory; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Poverty & unemployment; Housing & homelessness; Migration, immigration & emigration; Urban communities; Jewish studies; Belgium; France; Germany; USA; Argentina; Chile; English; Dutch
Other subjects:	literary criticism; literary theory; urban literature; migration
Scope:	1 electronic resource (172 p.)

Histories of technology, the Environment and Modern Britain

Contributor: Agar, Jon (Publisher); Ward, Jacob (Publisher)

Published: 2018

Publisher: UCL Press

Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain... more

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Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Technologies are modified environments, just as nature is to varying extents engineered. Furthermore, technologies and our living and non-living environment are both predominant material forms of organisation – and self-organisation – that surround and make us. Both have changed over time, in intersecting ways. Technologies discussed in the collection include bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays and biotechnologies. Environments investigated include bogs, cities, farms, places of natural beauty and pollution, land and sea. The book explores this diversity but also offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections.

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Source:	OAPEN
Contributor:	Agar, Jon (Publisher); Ward, Jacob (Publisher)
Language:	English
Media type:	Ebook
Format:	Online
Other identifier:	doi: 10.14324/111.9781911576570
Subjects:	United Kingdom, Great Britain; c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period); c 1945 to c 1960; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; 21st century; European history; History of ideas; History of science; English; History of engineering & technology; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; 20th century; c 1900 - c 1914; c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1); c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period); c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)
Other subjects:	british history; technology; environmental history; environment; Asbestos; Bulldozer
Scope:	1 electronic resource (354 p.)

Dickens After Dickens

Contributor: Bell, Emily (Publisher)

Published: 2020

Publisher: White Rose University Press, York

"[W]e have a long way to travel before we get back to what Dickens meant… G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued the quest, so aptly described by G. K. Chesterton in 1906, to ‘find’ Charles Dickens... more

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"[W]e have a long way to travel before we get back to what Dickens meant…

G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens

The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued the quest, so aptly described by G. K. Chesterton in 1906, to ‘find’ Charles Dickens and recapture the characteristically Dickensian. From research attempting to classify and categorise the nature of his popularity to a century of film adaptations, Dickens’s legacy encompasses an array of conventional and innovative forms.

Dickens After Dickens includes chapters from rising and leading scholars in the field, offering creative and varied discussion of the continued and evolving influence of Dickens and the nature of his legacy across the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Its chapters show the surprising resonances that Dickens has had and continues to have, arguing that the author’s impact can be seen in mainstream cultural phenomena such as HBO’s TV series The Wire and Donna Tartt’s novel The Goldfinch, as well as in diverse areas such as Norwegian literature, video games and neo-Victorian fiction. It discusses Dickens as a biographical figure, an intertextual moment, and a medium through which to explore contemporary concerns around gender and representation.

The new research represented in this book brings together a range of methodologies, approaches and sources, offering an accessible and engaging re-evaluation that will be of interest to scholars of Dickens, Victorian fiction, adaptation, and cultural history, and to teachers, students, and general readers interested in the ways in which we continue to read and be influenced by the author’s work.

This collection is edited by Dr Emily Bell (Loughborough University) with a Foreword by Professor Juliet John (Royal Holloway, University of London), author of Dickens and Mass Culture (OUP). Dr Bell is a board member for the Oxford Dickens series and an editor for the Dickens Letters Project. She also acted as the first Communications Committee Chair of the international Dickens Society, and has published on Dickens, life writing and commemoration.

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Source:	OAPEN
Contributor:	Bell, Emily (Publisher)
Language:	English
Media type:	Ebook
Format:	Online
Other identifier:	doi: 10.22599/DickensAfterDickens
Subjects:	Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; English; Cultural studies
Other subjects:	Charles Dickens; nineteenth century literature; cultural studies; literary afterlives/reception studies; adaptation; Neo-Victorian studies
Scope:	1 electronic resource (260 p.)

The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literary Texts, Ancient and Modern

Author: Heirman, Jo; Klooster, Jacqueline

Published: 2013

Publisher: Academia Press, Gent

In a brief essay called Des espaces autres (1984) Michel Foucault announced that after the nineteenth century, which was dominated by a historical outlook, the current century might rather be the century of space. His prophecy has been fulfilled: the... more

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In a brief essay called Des espaces autres (1984) Michel Foucault announced that after the nineteenth century, which was dominated by a historical outlook, the current century might rather be the century of space. His prophecy has been fulfilled: the end of the twentieth century witnessed a ‘spatial turn’ in humanities which was perhaps partly due to the globalisation of our modern world. Inspired by the spatial turn in the humanities, this volume presents a number of essays on the ideological role of space in literary texts. The individual articles analyse ancient and modern literary texts from the angle of the most recent theoretical conceptualisations of space. The focus throughout is on how the experience of space is determined by dominant political, philosophical or religious ideologies and how, in turn, the description of spaces in literature is employed to express, broadcast or deconstruct this experience. By bringing together ancient and modern, mostly postcolonial texts, this volume hopes to stimulate discussion among disciplines and across continents. Among the authors discussed are: Homer, Nonnus, Alcaeus of Lesbos, Apollonius of Rhodes, Vergil, Herodotus, Panagiotis Soutsos, Assia Djebar, Tahar Djaout, Olive Senior, Jamaica Kincaid, Stefan Heym, Benoit Dutuertre, Henrik Stangerup and David Malouf.

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Source:	OAPEN
Language:	English
Media type:	Ebook
Format:	Online
Other identifier:	doi: 10.26530/OAPEN_498512
Subjects:	Western Continental Europe; English; BCE to c 500 CE; c 1800 to c 1900; 20th century; For emergent readers (adult); Literary theory
Other subjects:	lived space; ideology; chronotope; literary theory
Scope:	1 electronic resource (256 p.)

Bakhtin’s Theory of the Literary Chronotope: Reflections, Applications, Perspectives

Author: Bemong, Nele; Borghart, Pieter; De Dobbeleer, Michel; Demoen, Kristoffel; De Temmerman, Koen; Keunen, Bart

Published: 2010

Publisher: Academia Press, Gent

This edited volume is the first scholarly tome exclusively dedicated to Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope. This concept, initially developed in the 1930s and used as a frame of reference throughout Bakhtin’s own writings, has been... more

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This edited volume is the first scholarly tome exclusively dedicated to Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope. This concept, initially developed in the 1930s and used as a frame of reference throughout Bakhtin’s own writings, has been highly influential in literary studies. After an extensive introduction that serves as a ‘state of the art’, the volume is divided into four main parts: Philosophical Reflections, Relevance of the Chronotope for Literary History, Chronotopical Readings and Some Perspectives for Literary Theory. These thematic categories contain contributions by well-established Bakhtin specialists such as Gary Saul Morson and Michael Holquist, as well as a number of essays by scholars who have published on this subject before. Together the papers in this volume explore the implications of Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope for a variety of theoretical topics such as literary imagination, polysystem theory and literary adaptation; for modern views on literary history ranging from the hellenistic romance to nineteenth-century realism; and for analyses of well-known novelists and poets as diverse as Milton, Fielding, Dickinson, Dostoevsky, Papadiamandis and DeLillo.

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Source:	OAPEN
Language:	English
Media type:	Ebook
Format:	Online
Other identifier:	doi: 10.26530/OAPEN_377572
Subjects:	Central Europe; English; BCE to c 500 CE; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; 20th century; 21st century; For emergent readers (adult); Literary theory
Other subjects:	literaire theorie; chronotope; literary theory; mikhail bakhtin; Immanuel Kant; Spacetime
Scope:	1 electronic resource (213 p.)

Middlebrow Matters : Women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque

Author: Holmes, Diana

Published: 20181031

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

Middlebrow is a derogatory word that connotes blandness, mediocrity and a failed aspiration to ‘high’ culture. However, when appropriated as a positive term to denote that wide swathe of literature between the challenging experimentalism of the high... more

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Middlebrow is a derogatory word that connotes blandness, mediocrity and a failed aspiration to ‘high’ culture. However, when appropriated as a positive term to denote that wide swathe of literature between the challenging experimentalism of the high and the formulaic drive of the popular, it enables a rethinking of the literary canon from the point of view of what most readers actually read, a criterion curiously absent from dominant definitions of literary value. Since women have long formed a majority of the nation’s reading public, this perspective immediately feminises what has always been a very male canon. Opening with a theorisation of the concept of middlebrow that mounts a defence of some literary qualities disdained by modernism, the book then focuses on a series of case studies of periods (the Belle Époque, inter-war, early twenty-first century), authors (including Colette, Irène Nemirovsky, Françoise Sagan, Anna Gavalda) and the middlebrow nature of literary prizes.

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Source:	OAPEN
Language:	English
Media type:	Ebook
Format:	Online
ISBN:	9781786949523
Other identifier:	doi: 10.2307/j.ctvt1sk8w
Subjects:	Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Other subjects:	Languages; Literary studies; fiction; novelists & prose writers; France; English; French

Botticelli Past and Present

Contributor: Debenedetti, Ana (Publisher); Elam, Caroline (Publisher)

Published: 2019

Publisher: UCL Press, London

The recent exhibitions dedicated to Botticelli around the world show, more than ever, the significant and continued debate about the artist. Botticelli Past and Present engages with this debate. The book comprises four thematic parts, spanning four... more

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The recent exhibitions dedicated to Botticelli around the world show, more than ever, the significant and continued debate about the artist. Botticelli Past and Present engages with this debate. The book comprises four thematic parts, spanning four centuries of Botticelli’s artistic fame and reception from the fifteenth century. Each part comprises a number of essays and includes a short introduction which positions them within the wider scholarly literature on Botticelli. The parts are organised chronologically beginning with discussion of the artist and his working practice in his own time, moving onto the progressive rediscovery of his work from the late eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth century, through to his enduring impact on contemporary art and design. Expertly written by researchers and eminent art historians and richly illustrated throughout, the broad range of essays in this book make a valuable contribution to Botticelli studies.

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Source:	OAPEN
Contributor:	Debenedetti, Ana (Publisher); Elam, Caroline (Publisher)
Language:	English
Media type:	Ebook
Format:	Online
Other identifier:	doi: 10.14324/111.9781787354593
Subjects:	Italy; English; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; Individual artists, art monographs
Other subjects:	Botticelli; Victoria and Albert Museum; Art History
Scope:	1 electronic resource (332 p.)

Frères Ennemis : The French in American Literature, Americans in French Literature

Author: Cloonan, William

Published: 20181002

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

Frères Ennemis ocuses on Franco-American tensions as portrayed in works of literature. An Introduction is followed by nine chapters, each focused on a French or American literary text which shows the evolution/devolution of the relations between the... more

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Frères Ennemis ocuses on Franco-American tensions as portrayed in works of literature. An Introduction is followed by nine chapters, each focused on a French or American literary text which shows the evolution/devolution of the relations between the two nations at a particular point in time. While the heart of the analysis consists of close textual readings, social, cultural and political contexts are introduced to provide a better understanding of the historical reality influencing the individual novels, a reality to which these novels are also responding. Chapters One through Five, covering a period from the mid-1870s to the end of the Cold War, discuss significant aspects of the often fraught relationship from the theoretical perspective of Roland Barthes’ theory of modern myth, described in his Mythologies. Barthes’ theory helps situate Franco-American tensions in a paradigmatic structure, while at the same time it is supple enough to allow for shifts and reversals within the paradigm. Subsequent chapters explore new French attitudes toward the powerful, potentially dominant influence of American culture on French life. In these sections I argue that recent French fiction displays more openness to the American experience than has existed in the past, and as such contrasts with the more static American approach to French culture.

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Source:	OAPEN
Language:	English
Media type:	Ebook
Format:	Online
Other identifier:	doi: 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941329.001.0001
Subjects:	Literary studies: general
Other subjects:	Languages; Literary studies; general; Cultural studies; France; The Americas; English; American English; French

Forskarskolan FRAM – lärare forskar i de främmande språkens didaktik

Contributor: Bardel, Camilla (Publisher); Erickson, Gudrun (Publisher); Granfeldt, Jonas (Publisher); Rosén, Christina (Publisher)

Published: 2021

Publisher: Stockholm University Press, Stockholm

In recent years, several investments have been made in graduate schools for teachers, with the aim of building up the school's knowledge base and increasing the number of teachers in the school with postgraduate education. The content of this book is... more

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In recent years, several investments have been made in graduate schools for teachers, with the aim of building up the school's knowledge base and increasing the number of teachers in the school with postgraduate education. The content of this book is based on the results from the national graduate school for language teachers The didactics of foreign languages (FRAM) which was conducted with support from the Swedish Research Council during the period 2012-2015. The graduate school enabled a unique exchange of knowledge between active teachers who found interesting study objects in their current teaching context and the academy's researchers who saw the relevance of the project ideas in the background of the research field. This type of collaboration in research and education fulfilled the overall purpose of the graduate school. A synergy effect was that language didactic research in Sweden received an important addition of classroom-related research projects in a wide range of specializations. Based on the graduate school's three main areas, namely language learning, digital resources in language teaching and language assessment, projects were carved out on multilingualism, motivation, language and subject-integrated teaching, feedback, (co) assessment and much more. Participating authors are ten teachers who have researched the learning, teaching and assessment of English and modern languages. Their work is presented in separate chapters. In the introduction, the book's editors provide an insight into how a graduate school for teachers can be set up and how FRAM has contributed to the expanding and multifaceted research field Language Didactics.

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Source:	OAPEN
Contributor:	Bardel, Camilla (Publisher); Erickson, Gudrun (Publisher); Granfeldt, Jonas (Publisher); Rosén, Christina (Publisher)
Language:	Swedish
Media type:	Ebook
Format:	Online
ISBN:	9789176351314; 9789176351284; 9789176351291; 9789176351307
Other identifier:	doi: 10.16993/bbg
Subjects:	Applied linguistics for ELT; English; Language teaching theory & methods; Modern Indic languages; Language: reference & general; Religious subjects depicted in art
Other subjects:	Digital resources in language education; Digitala resurser för språklärande; Multilingualism; Flerspråkighet; Language assessment; Bedömning av språk; Language teaching; Språkundervisning; Language learning; Språkinlärning; Foreign languages; Främmande språk
Scope:	1 electronic resource (259 p.)

Die mykenische Akropolis. Grabungen 1975–1980: Stratigraphie und Bebauung

Author: Alram, Eva

Published: 202010

Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

The second volume on the Austrian excavations of the years 1975-1980 on the acropolis of Aigeira aims at a reconstruction of the post-palatial Mycenaean settlement, based on stratigraphy and findings. Spatial analyses were executed on the basis of... more

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The second volume on the Austrian excavations of the years 1975-1980 on the acropolis of Aigeira aims at a reconstruction of the post-palatial Mycenaean settlement, based on stratigraphy and findings. Spatial analyses were executed on the basis of distribution patterns of installations as well as small finds, pithoi and pottery in situ showing a settlement consisting of households based on family structures which are characterized by storage, production of goods and feasting. Furthermore, the social grade of the inhabitants is underlined by a cult room as well as a fortification evident for a late phase of the settlement.

Beilagenmappe: e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1469 Der zweite Faszikel zu den österreichischen Ausgrabungen der Jahre 1975-1980 auf der Akropolis von Aigeira hat zum Ziel, die postpalatiale mykenische Siedlung, basierend auf der Stratigraphie und den Befunden, zu rekonstruieren. Die anhand der Installationen, Kleinfunde, Pithoi und der in situ angetroffenen Keramikgefäße vorgenommenen Raumanalysen ergaben das Bild von auf Familienstrukturen basierenden Haushalten, die sich durch Lagerhaltung, Produktion von Gütern und Abhalten von Festen auszeichnen. Gleichzeitig wird der gehobene soziale Status der Bewohner durch einen Kultraum sowie durch eine für die Spätphase der Siedlung fassbare Befestigung unterstrichen.

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Source:	OAPEN
Language:	German
Media type:	Ebook
Format:	Online
Subjects:	Prehistoric archaeology; Material culture; Greece; German; English; Modern Greek; Prehistory; Designed for differentiated learning; For emergent readers (adult)
Other subjects:	Mykenisch, postpalatial, Siedlung, Vorratshaltung, Feste, Töpferofen, Aigeira, Achaia, Griechenland; ÖFOS 2012, Archäologie; Mycenaean, postpalatial, settlement, storage, feasting, pottery kiln, Aigeira, Achaia, Greece; ÖFOS 2012, Archaeology

Die mykenische Akropolis. Grabungen 1975–1980: Stratigraphie und Bebauung

Author: Alram-Stern, Eva

Published: 202010

Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

The second volume on the Austrian excavations of the years 1975-1980 on the acropolis of Aigeira aims at a reconstruction of the post-palatial Mycenaean settlement, based on stratigraphy and findings. Spatial analyses were executed on the basis of... more

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The second volume on the Austrian excavations of the years 1975-1980 on the acropolis of Aigeira aims at a reconstruction of the post-palatial Mycenaean settlement, based on stratigraphy and findings. Spatial analyses were executed on the basis of distribution patterns of installations as well as small finds, pithoi and pottery in situ showing a settlement consisting of households based on family structures which are characterized by storage, production of goods and feasting. Furthermore, the social grade of the inhabitants is underlined by a cult room as well as a fortification evident for a late phase of the settlement.

Beilagenmappe: e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1469 Der zweite Faszikel zu den österreichischen Ausgrabungen der Jahre 1975-1980 auf der Akropolis von Aigeira hat zum Ziel, die postpalatiale mykenische Siedlung, basierend auf der Stratigraphie und den Befunden, zu rekonstruieren. Die anhand der Installationen, Kleinfunde, Pithoi und der in situ angetroffenen Keramikgefäße vorgenommenen Raumanalysen ergaben das Bild von auf Familienstrukturen basierenden Haushalten, die sich durch Lagerhaltung, Produktion von Gütern und Abhalten von Festen auszeichnen. Gleichzeitig wird der gehobene soziale Status der Bewohner durch einen Kultraum sowie durch eine für die Spätphase der Siedlung fassbare Befestigung unterstrichen.