Aleksander Bursche
University of Warsaw, Department of History, Faculty Member
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Research Interests: History, Roman Empire, Antiquity, Europe, Europa, and 4 moreMedallions, Katalogi, Starożytność, and Catalogs
The concept of Central Europe is understood here to cover the geographical centre of the European continent (i.e. the territory between the Elbe, Bug and Neman rivers, that is, eastern Germany, Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia and Lithuania),... more
The concept of Central Europe is understood here to cover the geographical centre of the European continent (i.e. the territory between the Elbe, Bug and Neman rivers, that is, eastern Germany, Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia and Lithuania), formerly treated in much of the English-speaking world as ‘Eastern Europe’. In the past six years, however, this area has been moving closer to the West. This paper shall concentrate on the region north of the Carpathian mountains, particularly the Vistula river-basin and Scandinavia (without Norway), in other words the territory round the Baltic Sea.
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Rezension zu: Karl-Josef Gilles, Der römische Goldmünzenschatz aus der Feldstraße in Trier. Trierer Zeitschrift, Beiheft 34. Publisher Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, Trier 2013. 268 pages, 80 in-text plates.
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Research Interests: History and Collection
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This paper illustrates the aim of the NETConnect project to provide a broad view of cross-site cultural connections of three prominent European archaeological sites. The project creates an IT infrastructure capable of providing the public... more
This paper illustrates the aim of the NETConnect project to provide a broad view of cross-site cultural connections of three prominent European archaeological sites. The project creates an IT infrastructure capable of providing the public with a wide range of experiences, ranging from the interaction with on-site mobile devices to geo-referenced real-time 3D visualisation systems. The aim is to promote a more entertaining yet effective educational process which can engage the visitor during his/her visit to the site.
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Over 52,000 Roman coins have been recorded and published from Wales. Using this comprehensive numismatic sample, this article investigates how coins of different metals and denominations were used and lost in western Britain during the... more
Over 52,000 Roman coins have been recorded and published from Wales. Using this comprehensive numismatic sample, this article investigates how coins of different metals and denominations were used and lost in western Britain during the later Iron Age and early Roman periods. The analysis of coins from hoards, excavated sites and single finds produces a more detailed picture of coin supply and use in Roman Britain than has been the case in the past and, consequently, it is now possible to provide a relatively sophisticated description of the monetization of Wales in the decades immediately before and after the conquest in the later first century a.d. The complexities of the early numismatic history of Wales are explored using a series of chronological and regional case-studies, while the discussion emphasizes the role of native traditions in shaping local responses to the appearance of coinage and the foreign practices associated with using Roman imperial currency.
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In the Numismatic Chronicle for 2013, A. Bursche put forward the proposition that the imperial treasury was seized by the Goths when in A.D. 251 they crushed the Roman army at Abritus.1 Most of the plundered Roman gold was presumably in... more
In the Numismatic Chronicle for 2013, A. Bursche put forward the proposition that the imperial treasury was seized by the Goths when in A.D. 251 they crushed the Roman army at Abritus.1 Most of the plundered Roman gold was presumably in the form of coin (ingots are neither excluded nor confirmed). This gold has now been traced with some confidence to archaeological sites of the Wielbark and the Chernyakhiv cultures, in particular to grave assemblages dated to the second half of the 3rd c. (phase C1b-C2 of the Late Roman period).2 This had even broader consequences, since the capture of an enormous amount of gold by the barbarians could have been the immediate cause of the deterioration of the aureus under Decius‘ successors.3
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In October 1991, Janusz Krzysztof Kozlowski of the University of Cracow will be at the Society of Antiquaries in London to receive the Prehistoric Society's first Europa Prize in recognition of his contribution to Palaeolithic... more
In October 1991, Janusz Krzysztof Kozlowski of the University of Cracow will be at the Society of Antiquaries in London to receive the Prehistoric Society's first Europa Prize in recognition of his contribution to Palaeolithic archaeology. His achievement, involving as it has international interdisciplinary collaboration, has been all the more remarkable in that it has been conducted from a country which has been in a state of internal crisis for the last decade, and subservient to a censorious Soviet scientific and political orthodoxy since the end of the Second World War. How has the discipline of archaeology developed generally this century in Poland? What can it now teach the west?
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... The opinion presented is '|ltr:rct'orc opposed to the views of L. Lind“ on the flow of a mass of denfifti In the middle oi' the third ... based on the well-ltnown passage in Cassius Die t'.|'B.I3.3]. However,... more
... The opinion presented is '|ltr:rct'orc opposed to the views of L. Lind“ on the flow of a mass of denfifti In the middle oi' the third ... based on the well-ltnown passage in Cassius Die t'.|'B.I3.3]. However, taking into account their critical apparatus and thl literature which has grown up ...
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... noted (occasionally, with earlier aurei and their imitations) and large gold medallions ofConstantine and Valentinian emperors, including also numerous coins of the usurper Magnentius. ... B. Kluge & R. Weisser), Berlin,... more
... noted (occasionally, with earlier aurei and their imitations) and large gold medallions ofConstantine and Valentinian emperors, including also numerous coins of the usurper Magnentius. ... B. Kluge & R. Weisser), Berlin, 28-45 2002 Roman coins in Scandinavia. ...
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... Fagerlie, JM 1967. Late Roman and Byzantine Soliai Found in Sweden and Denmark. Numis-matic Notes and Monographs 157. ... Fonnesbech-Sandberg, E. 1990. Anvendelsen af manter i romersk Idre germansk jernalder, In: H. Thrane (ed.):... more
... Fagerlie, JM 1967. Late Roman and Byzantine Soliai Found in Sweden and Denmark. Numis-matic Notes and Monographs 157. ... Fonnesbech-Sandberg, E. 1990. Anvendelsen af manter i romersk Idre germansk jernalder, In: H. Thrane (ed.): Gudme-Rapport, pp. 75-87. ...
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The concept of Central Europe is understood here to cover the geographical centre of the European continent (i.e. the territory between the Elbe, Bug and Neman rivers, that is, eastern Germany, Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia and Lithuania),... more
The concept of Central Europe is understood here to cover the geographical centre of the European continent (i.e. the territory between the Elbe, Bug and Neman rivers, that is, eastern Germany, Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia and Lithuania), formerly treated in much of the English-speaking world as ‘Eastern Europe’. In the past six years, however, this area has been moving closer to the West. This paper shall concentrate on the region north of the Carpathian mountains, particularly the Vistula river-basin and Scandinavia (without Norway), in other words the territory round the Baltic Sea.