Wulfila 311-2011: International Symposium. Uppsala University June 15-18, 2011

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The symposium "Wulfila 311–2011" was a joint arrangement between the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History and Uppsala University Library. Thanks to Wulfila and his Gothi Minores ("little Goths", the group of Christian Goths in Moesia, whose bishop Wulfila was), we can draw on a whole different picture of the Gothic than the violent and warlike image of Gothic history so often handed down to posterity. Piety, love of peace, culture and education are the hallmarks of this alternative representation... The surviving parts of Wulfila’s Bible translation are the only witnesses today of the Gothic language. Without Wulfila there would not be any text that we today could certainly identify as Gothic. We would know nothing of the Gothic language, just as we know nothing of most of the other East Germanic languages (those of the Burgundians, Gepids, Heruli, Rugians, Scirii and Vandals). Our knowledge of the Gothic language is a cornerstone of German philology... The speakers of the symposium Wulfila 311–2011 are accomplished scholars in their own different fields. Despite their widely disparate academic specialities they have one thing in common: each of their specialities has at least one single thread leading back to Wulfila in one or another way. It is a pleasure to present their papers in this volume. ("Preface") Anders Kaliff & Lars Munkhammar. Preface by the Editors 9 Ulf Göranson. A Word of Welcome by the Library Director 15 Kerstin Sahlin. Welcome by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University 17 Irina Bokova. Address by the Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the inauguration of the Silver Bible on the Memory of the World Register 21 Herwig Wolfram. Vulfila pontifex ipseque primas Gothorum minorum 25 Tore Nyberg. Eusebius' Tricennial Oration and Wulfila’s Christian Creed 33 Jan Paul Strid. Retracing the Goths 41 Juan-Miguel Ferrer Grenesche. Elements of "Gothic" culture surviving in the Spanish Mozarabic Liturgy 55 Andrzej Kokowski. The Goths in ca. 311 AD 71 Svante Fischer. Literacy and Text Production in the Age of Germanic Kleptocracy – The Elusive Case of Theoderic 97 Magnús Snædal. Gothic "naiswor" 115 Rossen Milev. Wulfila's Cultural Heritage in Bulgaria and the Eastern Orthodox Tradition 125 Svetlana Lazarova. The Gothic Alphabet of Bishop Wulfila and the Cyrillic Alphabet Culture 137 Carla Falluomini. The Gothic Gospel of John and its text-critical character 145 Antoaneta Granberg. Establishing New Alphabets (300–900 AD) and the relation between the structure of an alphabet and the shape of its letters 165 Hans Frede Nielsen. The Gothic Language of Bishop Wulfila – Phonology, Typology and Purported Linguistic Purity 179 Ingmar Söhrman. Wulfila, Arianism and the Gothic Language in Visigothic Spain 197 Ingemar Nordgren. Goths and Religion 209 Gamla Uppsala and Skokloster 225