Stabel, Andrea
since 10/2018
PhD student in the Research Training Group 2304 “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception”, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.
Subject: Early Historical Archaeology
Dissertation title: Christian Symbolism on Militaria – The Christian Warrior in the Frankish Empire
Supervision: Priv.-Doz. habil. Dr. D. Quast, Prof. Dr. Ludger Körntgen
Härke deals with the furniture of weapons in early Saxon graves and correlates the accessible archaeological and anthropological data as well as the written sources.
Michael Zerjadtke's dissertation deals with the officer of the duces (sg. dux) in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Duces are generally translated as „military leaders”.