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Books by Bernard Mees
This pioneering work explores epigraphic evidence for the development of English before the Anglo... more This pioneering work explores epigraphic evidence for the development of English before the Anglo-Saxon period, bringing together linguistic, historical and archaeological perspectives on early inscriptions, making them more accessible to a wider audience.
The volume offers a new account of the Germanic development of Anglo-Saxon England, beginning with an examination of the earliest inscriptions from northern Europe and the oldest inscriptions preserving Germanic names, many of which have only been discovered since the 1980s. The book charts the origins of key terms such as Angle, Saxon and Jute and early writing systems used by Germanic peoples. Drawing on epigraphic evidence from northwestern Germany through to southwestern Denmark and sub-Roman Britain, Mees situates the analysis within historical and linguistic frameworks but also provides archaeological contextualisations, assessed chronologically, for the inscriptions. Taken together, the work re-examines existing models of the early development of English through the lens of contemporary approaches, opening paths for new directions in research on historical dialectology.
This book is key reading for students and scholars interested in the history of English and historical linguistics.
İş etiğini, Türkiye’de faaliyet gösteren tüm şirketlerin yazılı kültürünün temel taşı haline geti... more İş etiğini, Türkiye’de faaliyet gösteren tüm şirketlerin yazılı kültürünün temel taşı haline getirmek hedefiyle faaliyetlerini sürdüren Etik ve İtibar Derneği (TEİD) olarak kendi alanında önemli bir boşluğu dolduran İş Etiğinin Yükselişi’ni ülkemiz okurlarıyla buluşturmaktan kıvanç duyuyoruz.
İş Etiğinin Yükselişi; etik liderlik, kurumsal yönetim, kurumsal sosyal sorumluluk ve yönetici eğitimi gibi çeşitli kavramları dahil ederek konuyu geniş bir açıdan ele alıyor. Çağdaş iş etiğinin gelişimine katkı sağlamış düşünürleri, temel kurum ve konuları detaylıca inceleyen ilk çalışma olması sebebiyle de alandaki çalışmaların seyri açısından büyük önem taşıyor. Konuya ilişkin tartışma ve yaklaşımları; ortaya çıkışları ve uygulanışları bakımından kronolojik olarak inceleyerek hem konuyla ilgilenen araştırmacı, akademisyen, öğrenci ve okurlar için okuma kolaylığı sağlıyor hem de detaylı bir giriş ve analiz kitabı olma özelliğini koruyor.
In 1973, Daniel Bell argued that corporations in post-industrial societies increasingly needed to... more In 1973, Daniel Bell argued that corporations in post-industrial societies increasingly needed to behave in accord with widely accepted social norms, particularly in terms of ethical behavior and social responsibility. Yet widespread criticism of business behavior was not an invention of the 1960s and 70s or a product of changing commercial norms. The key feature historically has been business scandal. Understandings of how the field of business ethics has emerged are undeveloped, however.
This book is the first attempt to explain the conditions which saw a focus develop on business ethics especially in the 1960s and 70s, and how the broader field developed to encompass related notions such as corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, ethical leadership, sustainable business and responsible management education.
The Rise of Business Ethics provides an introduction and analysis of the key developments in contemporary business ethics by examining them in terms of their diachronic development – the key thinkers, the key issues, the key institutions and how they each contributed to contemporary understandings of business ethics, governance and practice. Addressing the topic from a European as well as North American perspective, The Rise of Business Ethics will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of business ethics, business and society, business history, organization studies and political economy.
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](The first major history of Australia's unique and world-leading system of industry superannuation... more The first major history of Australia's unique and world-leading system of industry superannuation.
Superannuation was once a privilege granted only to company head office staff and career public servants. Now in Australia nearly all workers have access to employer-contributed superannuation, and it is a fundamental pillar of Australia's retirement income system.
Workers' Capital tells the story of the Australian superannuation revolution led by trade unions in the 1980s. After a series of hard-fought industrial campaigns, an enormous financial industry was created, involving hundreds of thousands of employers and covering millions of fund members. From having one of the worst retirement savings systems in the developed world, in three decades Australia had one of the best. Now the funds held in Australian superannuation accounts exceed the entire market capitalisation of all the companies on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Drawing on interviews with the key players and extensive archival research, Workers' Capital is the first systematic history of the unique Australian system of industry superannuation.
Bushfire is an increasing threat in Australia, with population movement and mobility, shifts in c... more Bushfire is an increasing threat in Australia, with population movement and mobility, shifts in climate patterns and the unevenness in preventive measures across the country. It raises specific questions for populations living in localities as well as for governments and agencies tasked with the question of how to ensure the ongoing safety of the communities that constitute these localities. Effective communication is central to the processes of bushfire preparedness and response.
The first comprehensive study of early Celtic cursing, this work analyses both medieval and ancie... more The first comprehensive study of early Celtic cursing, this work analyses both medieval and ancient expressions of Celtic imprecation: from the binding tablets of ancient Britain and Gaul to the saintly maledictions of the early medieval period, and other traces of Celtic stipulation and binding only speculated on in earlier scholarship. It provides the first full overview and analyses of the ancient Celtic use of binding curses (as attested in Old Celtic and Latin inscriptions) and examines their mooted influence in later medieval expressions. Ancient finds (among them long Gaulish curse texts, Celtic Latin Curse tablets found from the Alpine regions to Britain, and fragments of Old Brittonic tablets excavated from Roman Bath) are subjected to rigorous new interpretations, and medieval reflections of the earlier tradition are also considered.
The first theoretically informed study of the relationship between an academic discipline and wha... more The first theoretically informed study of the relationship between an academic discipline and what the Nazis termed their Weltanschauung.
The first study of Sinnbildforschung, German ideograph or swastika studies, though more broadly it tells the tale of the development of German antiquarian studies (ancient Germanic history, archaeology, anthropology, folklore, historical linguistics and philology) under the influence of radical right wing politics, and the contemporary construction of ‘Germanicness’ and its role in Nazi thought. The swastika and similar symbols were employed by the ancestors of the modern day Germans. As these had also become emblematic symbols of the forces of German reaction, Sinnbildforschung became intrinsically connected with the National Socialist regime after 1933 and disappeared along with the Third Reich in 1945.
With the Nazi seizure of power, ideographic studies became directly supported by the state. In 1935 an organization was founded within the SS to further its study, the SS-Ahnenerbe. Most infamous as the organ through which medical experiments were arranged to be performed on the inmates of concentration camps, the Ahnenerbe was founded as a historical research institution before it expanded its horizons to the physical sciences.
This collection of essays by Australian, New Zealand and international historians comes from the ... more This collection of essays by Australian, New Zealand and international historians comes from the XVth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European History, held at the University of Melbourne, Australia, in July 2005.
The essays present current research on a number of major themes: state-sanctioned terror and total war in twentieth-century Europe; famine, mass-killing and genocide; as well as cultural and political histories, and the place of Europe in world history.
Covering the period from the late nineteenth century to the present, the studies embrace social, intellectual and political issues and concerns, including close empirical studies of specific Eastern, Central and Western European contexts and developments, but also trans-national perspectives and relationships.
The collection includes work by distinguished international and Australasian historians as well as emerging younger scholars.
The runic alphabet, in use for well over a thousand years, was employed by various Germanic group... more The runic alphabet, in use for well over a thousand years, was employed by various Germanic groups in a variety of ways, including, inevitably, for superstitious and magical rites. Formulaic runic words were inscribed onto small items that could be carried for good luck; runic charms were carved on metal or wooden amulets to ensure peace or prosperity. There are invocations and allusions to pagan and Christian gods and heroes, to spirits of disease, and even to potential lovers. Few such texts are completely unique to Germanic society, and in fact, most of the runic amulets considered in this book show wide-ranging parallels from a variety of European cultures.
The question of whether runes were magical or not has divided scholarship in the area. Early criticism embraced fantastic notions of runic magic - leading not just to a healthy scepticism, but in some cases to a complete denial of any magical element whatsoever in the runic inscriptions. This book seeks to re-evaulate the whole question of runic sorcery, attested to not only in the medieval Norse literature dealing with runes but primarily in the fascinating magical texts of the runic inscriptions themselves.
Papers by Bernard Mees
Archivio glottologico italiano, 2024
Le iscrizioni retiche sono state oggetto di studi linguistici a partire dal XIX secolo. La maggio... more Le iscrizioni retiche sono state oggetto di studi linguistici a partire dal XIX secolo. La maggior parte di queste iscrizioni sono state ritrovate su oggetti votivi o, comunque, preservano dediche religiose. Tuttavia, un manipolo di iscrizioni preromane ritrovate nel territorio della cultura di Fritzens-Sanzeno preserva anche chiare indicazioni dei dedicatari. In genere, queste iscrizioni sono paragonate ai testi dedicatori che preservano lo stile sintattico quadripartito tipico dell'epigrafia votiva italica-i.e. soggetto, oggetto, verbo e dedicatario (divino). Però, i teonimi, che tipicamente rappresentano il quarto elemento delle dediche quadripartite, sono difficili da identificare nelle iscrizioni retiche, dato che, in questo caso, le desinenze di pertinentivo rimandano ai beneficiari e agli agenti, invece che ai riceventi. Più che un tratto idiosincratico delle dediche retiche, l'assenza di una distinzione morfologica tra riceventi, agenti e beneficiari sembra riflettere un parziale sincretismo tra i casi ereditati di ablativo e genitivo.
Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur, 2024
Discovered in 1991, the inscription on the Pforzen buckle has generally been held to preserve a r... more Discovered in 1991, the inscription on the Pforzen buckle has generally been held to preserve a reference to Egill and Ǫlrún, two characters associated with the story of Vǫlundr, the Old Norse equivalent of Wayland, in early Germanic narrative. The inscription appears to be best assessed in comparison with comparably dating Burgundian buckle inscriptions that preserve references to the Biblical story of how God saved Daniel from the lions. The Pforzen inscription is more difficult to assess than the typologically similar Burgundian texts because one of its terms appears to have been written irregularly. The Pforzen inscription makes considerably more sense, however, if it is understood to reference an aspect of the key role that Egill and Ǫlrún have in the story of how Wayland escaped his captor.
Cisalpine Celtic literacy Proceedings of the international symposium Maynooth 23–24 June 2022, 2024
Recent assessments of the inscription on the Prestino stone have invoked the archaic texts on the... more Recent assessments of the inscription on the Prestino stone have invoked
the archaic texts on the stele statues from Lunigiana (Massa-Carrara,
Tuscany). Three of the stele statue texts have been argued to be linguistically
Celtic as if Ligurian was a Celtic dialect. Yet the transcriptions
of the Lunigiana texts as well as their linguistic interpretation are
disputed. It is clear that the stele statue inscriptions are written in an
Etruscan-derived alphabet very similar to that of the Lugano tradition
and that the oldest date from the end of the seventh century BC. Ligurian
appears best understood as representing a separate Indo-European language
from Celtic and all of the Lunigiana inscriptions can be interpreted
as linguistically Ligurian. As funerary memorials, the texts on the stele
statues also suggest a different interpretation of the Prestino inscription
than those that have been argued for previously.
Die Sprache, 2024
Several of the coin issues struck at the pre-Roman mint at Bratislava in the last century BC pres... more Several of the coin issues struck at the pre-Roman mint at Bratislava in the last century BC preserve names that have been proposed to be Germanic or to feature Germanic phonological influence. The most recent numismatic readings of the coin is-sues are consistent with the names all being linguistically Celtic, however. These include, most importantly, the coin legend long read as FARIARIX that has been argued recently to be a mirrored form of the name traditionally read as EVOIVRIX, a formation that has a clear cognate in Galatian.
Celtica, 2023
The linguistic affiliation of Pictish has long been disputed. Since the nineteenth century many i... more The linguistic affiliation of Pictish has long been disputed. Since the nineteenth century many investigators of Pictish have argued that it was a Celtic language. Yet the morphological behaviour recorded in the Ogam inscriptions associated with the Pictish kingdoms is not paralleled in Brythonic or in Old Irish, and much of the onomastic material recorded in ancient sources such as Ptolemy’s Geography also appears to preserve characteristics that are not found in comparable Celtic forms. The morphology of Pictish indicates that it may be an Indo-European dialect influenced by Brythonic, but that it cannot be considered a regular member of the Celtic family of languages.
Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 2023
The names Lubainis and Vanaenia recorded in inscriptions from Namur have long been proposed to pr... more The names Lubainis and Vanaenia recorded in inscriptions from Namur have long been proposed to preserve evidence that supports the reconstruction of the stem of the Germanic weak class-III verbs as originally featuring a diphthong *-ai-. Cognates of the Gothic weak class-III verb weihan ›to consecrate‹ have similarly been widely held to be preserved in two inscriptions rescued over a century ago from the Danish votive bogs. The attested forms wiju and wija suggest the development of a first-person singular present indicative ending -jǣ, much as would be expected of a weak class-III verb in Northwest Germanic. Gothic weihan ›to consecrate‹ is a factitive, however, and wiju and wija appear to have developed in a manner contrary to that assumed in recent accounts of the morphological origin of the weak class-III verbs.
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 2023
The goddess Nehalennia is known principally from two sanctuaries in Zeeland that have been dated ... more The goddess Nehalennia is known principally from two sanctuaries in Zeeland that have been dated to the late second and early third centuries. Variously explained as a Celtic or Germanic theonym, Nehalennia may best be understood in terms of the evidence of other names associated with Roman Zeeland. The Nehalennia sanctuaries are both situated in an area that seems likely to have fallen within the Roman civitas named for the Belgic Menapi, but the cult of Nehalennia appears likely to have been an originally Germanic development before it became more widely adopted by all manner of merchants who traded through the ports in the area. The theonym appears to record similar phonological developments to names recorded of Marsacian soldiers stationed in Roman Britain and Nehalennia accordingly appears to have been a goddess of the Marsaci.
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2022
Several of the bracteates recovered in the nineteenth century from hoards discovered at Skonager ... more Several of the bracteates recovered in the nineteenth century from hoards discovered at Skonager and Darum in Jutland feature runic inscriptions that appear to record West Germanic linguistic developments. Most of the inscriptions from Iron Age Denmark seem to record language that is directly ancestral to Danish, but two of the bracteates from Skonager and Darum feature inscriptions that have long been thought to attest West Germanic names. A third inscription represented in both hoards may also preserve similar evidence for a West Germanic language spoken in Jutland during the migration period. The inscriptions from Skonager and Darum seem best understood as recording an early Jutish dialect that was distinct from the language spoken further east on Zealand and that was related to the Kentish dialect of Old English.
This pioneering work explores epigraphic evidence for the development of English before the Anglo... more This pioneering work explores epigraphic evidence for the development of English before the Anglo-Saxon period, bringing together linguistic, historical and archaeological perspectives on early inscriptions, making them more accessible to a wider audience.
The volume offers a new account of the Germanic development of Anglo-Saxon England, beginning with an examination of the earliest inscriptions from northern Europe and the oldest inscriptions preserving Germanic names, many of which have only been discovered since the 1980s. The book charts the origins of key terms such as Angle, Saxon and Jute and early writing systems used by Germanic peoples. Drawing on epigraphic evidence from northwestern Germany through to southwestern Denmark and sub-Roman Britain, Mees situates the analysis within historical and linguistic frameworks but also provides archaeological contextualisations, assessed chronologically, for the inscriptions. Taken together, the work re-examines existing models of the early development of English through the lens of contemporary approaches, opening paths for new directions in research on historical dialectology.
This book is key reading for students and scholars interested in the history of English and historical linguistics.
İş etiğini, Türkiye’de faaliyet gösteren tüm şirketlerin yazılı kültürünün temel taşı haline geti... more İş etiğini, Türkiye’de faaliyet gösteren tüm şirketlerin yazılı kültürünün temel taşı haline getirmek hedefiyle faaliyetlerini sürdüren Etik ve İtibar Derneği (TEİD) olarak kendi alanında önemli bir boşluğu dolduran İş Etiğinin Yükselişi’ni ülkemiz okurlarıyla buluşturmaktan kıvanç duyuyoruz.
İş Etiğinin Yükselişi; etik liderlik, kurumsal yönetim, kurumsal sosyal sorumluluk ve yönetici eğitimi gibi çeşitli kavramları dahil ederek konuyu geniş bir açıdan ele alıyor. Çağdaş iş etiğinin gelişimine katkı sağlamış düşünürleri, temel kurum ve konuları detaylıca inceleyen ilk çalışma olması sebebiyle de alandaki çalışmaların seyri açısından büyük önem taşıyor. Konuya ilişkin tartışma ve yaklaşımları; ortaya çıkışları ve uygulanışları bakımından kronolojik olarak inceleyerek hem konuyla ilgilenen araştırmacı, akademisyen, öğrenci ve okurlar için okuma kolaylığı sağlıyor hem de detaylı bir giriş ve analiz kitabı olma özelliğini koruyor.
In 1973, Daniel Bell argued that corporations in post-industrial societies increasingly needed to... more In 1973, Daniel Bell argued that corporations in post-industrial societies increasingly needed to behave in accord with widely accepted social norms, particularly in terms of ethical behavior and social responsibility. Yet widespread criticism of business behavior was not an invention of the 1960s and 70s or a product of changing commercial norms. The key feature historically has been business scandal. Understandings of how the field of business ethics has emerged are undeveloped, however.
This book is the first attempt to explain the conditions which saw a focus develop on business ethics especially in the 1960s and 70s, and how the broader field developed to encompass related notions such as corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, ethical leadership, sustainable business and responsible management education.
The Rise of Business Ethics provides an introduction and analysis of the key developments in contemporary business ethics by examining them in terms of their diachronic development – the key thinkers, the key issues, the key institutions and how they each contributed to contemporary understandings of business ethics, governance and practice. Addressing the topic from a European as well as North American perspective, The Rise of Business Ethics will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of business ethics, business and society, business history, organization studies and political economy.
The first major history of Australia's unique and world-leading system of industry superannuation... more The first major history of Australia's unique and world-leading system of industry superannuation.
Superannuation was once a privilege granted only to company head office staff and career public servants. Now in Australia nearly all workers have access to employer-contributed superannuation, and it is a fundamental pillar of Australia's retirement income system.
Workers' Capital tells the story of the Australian superannuation revolution led by trade unions in the 1980s. After a series of hard-fought industrial campaigns, an enormous financial industry was created, involving hundreds of thousands of employers and covering millions of fund members. From having one of the worst retirement savings systems in the developed world, in three decades Australia had one of the best. Now the funds held in Australian superannuation accounts exceed the entire market capitalisation of all the companies on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Drawing on interviews with the key players and extensive archival research, Workers' Capital is the first systematic history of the unique Australian system of industry superannuation.
Bushfire is an increasing threat in Australia, with population movement and mobility, shifts in c... more Bushfire is an increasing threat in Australia, with population movement and mobility, shifts in climate patterns and the unevenness in preventive measures across the country. It raises specific questions for populations living in localities as well as for governments and agencies tasked with the question of how to ensure the ongoing safety of the communities that constitute these localities. Effective communication is central to the processes of bushfire preparedness and response.
The first comprehensive study of early Celtic cursing, this work analyses both medieval and ancie... more The first comprehensive study of early Celtic cursing, this work analyses both medieval and ancient expressions of Celtic imprecation: from the binding tablets of ancient Britain and Gaul to the saintly maledictions of the early medieval period, and other traces of Celtic stipulation and binding only speculated on in earlier scholarship. It provides the first full overview and analyses of the ancient Celtic use of binding curses (as attested in Old Celtic and Latin inscriptions) and examines their mooted influence in later medieval expressions. Ancient finds (among them long Gaulish curse texts, Celtic Latin Curse tablets found from the Alpine regions to Britain, and fragments of Old Brittonic tablets excavated from Roman Bath) are subjected to rigorous new interpretations, and medieval reflections of the earlier tradition are also considered.
The first theoretically informed study of the relationship between an academic discipline and wha... more The first theoretically informed study of the relationship between an academic discipline and what the Nazis termed their Weltanschauung.
The first study of Sinnbildforschung, German ideograph or swastika studies, though more broadly it tells the tale of the development of German antiquarian studies (ancient Germanic history, archaeology, anthropology, folklore, historical linguistics and philology) under the influence of radical right wing politics, and the contemporary construction of ‘Germanicness’ and its role in Nazi thought. The swastika and similar symbols were employed by the ancestors of the modern day Germans. As these had also become emblematic symbols of the forces of German reaction, Sinnbildforschung became intrinsically connected with the National Socialist regime after 1933 and disappeared along with the Third Reich in 1945.
With the Nazi seizure of power, ideographic studies became directly supported by the state. In 1935 an organization was founded within the SS to further its study, the SS-Ahnenerbe. Most infamous as the organ through which medical experiments were arranged to be performed on the inmates of concentration camps, the Ahnenerbe was founded as a historical research institution before it expanded its horizons to the physical sciences.
This collection of essays by Australian, New Zealand and international historians comes from the ... more This collection of essays by Australian, New Zealand and international historians comes from the XVth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European History, held at the University of Melbourne, Australia, in July 2005.
The essays present current research on a number of major themes: state-sanctioned terror and total war in twentieth-century Europe; famine, mass-killing and genocide; as well as cultural and political histories, and the place of Europe in world history.
Covering the period from the late nineteenth century to the present, the studies embrace social, intellectual and political issues and concerns, including close empirical studies of specific Eastern, Central and Western European contexts and developments, but also trans-national perspectives and relationships.
The collection includes work by distinguished international and Australasian historians as well as emerging younger scholars.
The runic alphabet, in use for well over a thousand years, was employed by various Germanic group... more The runic alphabet, in use for well over a thousand years, was employed by various Germanic groups in a variety of ways, including, inevitably, for superstitious and magical rites. Formulaic runic words were inscribed onto small items that could be carried for good luck; runic charms were carved on metal or wooden amulets to ensure peace or prosperity. There are invocations and allusions to pagan and Christian gods and heroes, to spirits of disease, and even to potential lovers. Few such texts are completely unique to Germanic society, and in fact, most of the runic amulets considered in this book show wide-ranging parallels from a variety of European cultures.
The question of whether runes were magical or not has divided scholarship in the area. Early criticism embraced fantastic notions of runic magic - leading not just to a healthy scepticism, but in some cases to a complete denial of any magical element whatsoever in the runic inscriptions. This book seeks to re-evaulate the whole question of runic sorcery, attested to not only in the medieval Norse literature dealing with runes but primarily in the fascinating magical texts of the runic inscriptions themselves.
Archivio glottologico italiano, 2024
Le iscrizioni retiche sono state oggetto di studi linguistici a partire dal XIX secolo. La maggio... more Le iscrizioni retiche sono state oggetto di studi linguistici a partire dal XIX secolo. La maggior parte di queste iscrizioni sono state ritrovate su oggetti votivi o, comunque, preservano dediche religiose. Tuttavia, un manipolo di iscrizioni preromane ritrovate nel territorio della cultura di Fritzens-Sanzeno preserva anche chiare indicazioni dei dedicatari. In genere, queste iscrizioni sono paragonate ai testi dedicatori che preservano lo stile sintattico quadripartito tipico dell'epigrafia votiva italica-i.e. soggetto, oggetto, verbo e dedicatario (divino). Però, i teonimi, che tipicamente rappresentano il quarto elemento delle dediche quadripartite, sono difficili da identificare nelle iscrizioni retiche, dato che, in questo caso, le desinenze di pertinentivo rimandano ai beneficiari e agli agenti, invece che ai riceventi. Più che un tratto idiosincratico delle dediche retiche, l'assenza di una distinzione morfologica tra riceventi, agenti e beneficiari sembra riflettere un parziale sincretismo tra i casi ereditati di ablativo e genitivo.
Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur, 2024
Discovered in 1991, the inscription on the Pforzen buckle has generally been held to preserve a r... more Discovered in 1991, the inscription on the Pforzen buckle has generally been held to preserve a reference to Egill and Ǫlrún, two characters associated with the story of Vǫlundr, the Old Norse equivalent of Wayland, in early Germanic narrative. The inscription appears to be best assessed in comparison with comparably dating Burgundian buckle inscriptions that preserve references to the Biblical story of how God saved Daniel from the lions. The Pforzen inscription is more difficult to assess than the typologically similar Burgundian texts because one of its terms appears to have been written irregularly. The Pforzen inscription makes considerably more sense, however, if it is understood to reference an aspect of the key role that Egill and Ǫlrún have in the story of how Wayland escaped his captor.
Cisalpine Celtic literacy Proceedings of the international symposium Maynooth 23–24 June 2022, 2024
Recent assessments of the inscription on the Prestino stone have invoked the archaic texts on the... more Recent assessments of the inscription on the Prestino stone have invoked
the archaic texts on the stele statues from Lunigiana (Massa-Carrara,
Tuscany). Three of the stele statue texts have been argued to be linguistically
Celtic as if Ligurian was a Celtic dialect. Yet the transcriptions
of the Lunigiana texts as well as their linguistic interpretation are
disputed. It is clear that the stele statue inscriptions are written in an
Etruscan-derived alphabet very similar to that of the Lugano tradition
and that the oldest date from the end of the seventh century BC. Ligurian
appears best understood as representing a separate Indo-European language
from Celtic and all of the Lunigiana inscriptions can be interpreted
as linguistically Ligurian. As funerary memorials, the texts on the stele
statues also suggest a different interpretation of the Prestino inscription
than those that have been argued for previously.
Die Sprache, 2024
Several of the coin issues struck at the pre-Roman mint at Bratislava in the last century BC pres... more Several of the coin issues struck at the pre-Roman mint at Bratislava in the last century BC preserve names that have been proposed to be Germanic or to feature Germanic phonological influence. The most recent numismatic readings of the coin is-sues are consistent with the names all being linguistically Celtic, however. These include, most importantly, the coin legend long read as FARIARIX that has been argued recently to be a mirrored form of the name traditionally read as EVOIVRIX, a formation that has a clear cognate in Galatian.
Celtica, 2023
The linguistic affiliation of Pictish has long been disputed. Since the nineteenth century many i... more The linguistic affiliation of Pictish has long been disputed. Since the nineteenth century many investigators of Pictish have argued that it was a Celtic language. Yet the morphological behaviour recorded in the Ogam inscriptions associated with the Pictish kingdoms is not paralleled in Brythonic or in Old Irish, and much of the onomastic material recorded in ancient sources such as Ptolemy’s Geography also appears to preserve characteristics that are not found in comparable Celtic forms. The morphology of Pictish indicates that it may be an Indo-European dialect influenced by Brythonic, but that it cannot be considered a regular member of the Celtic family of languages.
Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 2023
The names Lubainis and Vanaenia recorded in inscriptions from Namur have long been proposed to pr... more The names Lubainis and Vanaenia recorded in inscriptions from Namur have long been proposed to preserve evidence that supports the reconstruction of the stem of the Germanic weak class-III verbs as originally featuring a diphthong *-ai-. Cognates of the Gothic weak class-III verb weihan ›to consecrate‹ have similarly been widely held to be preserved in two inscriptions rescued over a century ago from the Danish votive bogs. The attested forms wiju and wija suggest the development of a first-person singular present indicative ending -jǣ, much as would be expected of a weak class-III verb in Northwest Germanic. Gothic weihan ›to consecrate‹ is a factitive, however, and wiju and wija appear to have developed in a manner contrary to that assumed in recent accounts of the morphological origin of the weak class-III verbs.
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 2023
The goddess Nehalennia is known principally from two sanctuaries in Zeeland that have been dated ... more The goddess Nehalennia is known principally from two sanctuaries in Zeeland that have been dated to the late second and early third centuries. Variously explained as a Celtic or Germanic theonym, Nehalennia may best be understood in terms of the evidence of other names associated with Roman Zeeland. The Nehalennia sanctuaries are both situated in an area that seems likely to have fallen within the Roman civitas named for the Belgic Menapi, but the cult of Nehalennia appears likely to have been an originally Germanic development before it became more widely adopted by all manner of merchants who traded through the ports in the area. The theonym appears to record similar phonological developments to names recorded of Marsacian soldiers stationed in Roman Britain and Nehalennia accordingly appears to have been a goddess of the Marsaci.
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2022
Several of the bracteates recovered in the nineteenth century from hoards discovered at Skonager ... more Several of the bracteates recovered in the nineteenth century from hoards discovered at Skonager and Darum in Jutland feature runic inscriptions that appear to record West Germanic linguistic developments. Most of the inscriptions from Iron Age Denmark seem to record language that is directly ancestral to Danish, but two of the bracteates from Skonager and Darum feature inscriptions that have long been thought to attest West Germanic names. A third inscription represented in both hoards may also preserve similar evidence for a West Germanic language spoken in Jutland during the migration period. The inscriptions from Skonager and Darum seem best understood as recording an early Jutish dialect that was distinct from the language spoken further east on Zealand and that was related to the Kentish dialect of Old English.
European Journal of Scandinavian Studies, 2022
The Tune runestone preserves one of the most important older runic inscriptions. Yet two main int... more The Tune runestone preserves one of the most important older runic inscriptions. Yet two main interpretations have been proposed for the text on side B of the early Norwegian memorial. The more recent interpretation relies on the existence of a Proto-Germanic fabricatory verb *dālijaną that is not attested otherwise. Side B also features a superlative adjective featuring the ending -jōstēz whose root has equally been the subject of a range of unlikely proposals. The early runic verb dalidun is most plausibly taken as reflecting a loan of *dāl-, the Celtic reflection of the Indo-European verbal root *deh1(i̯)- ‘to divide’, while the superlative appears to be most obviously comparable to Gothic sinistans ‘elders’.
NOWELE , 2022
The Vimose plane features an early runic inscription that has long remained opaque, with none of ... more The Vimose plane features an early runic inscription that has long remained opaque, with none of the attempts to explain it having commanded assent in the historiography. Like the inscription on the Vimose buckle, however, the text on the wood plane appears to preserve an early example of West Germanic religious language. The inscription on the sharpener shows some parallels with comparable Roman texts but also distinctively West Germanic phonological development. The text on the plane seems to be one of several early runic texts found in the Southern Scandinavian votive bogs that preserve Ingvaeonic features.
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 2022
The Batavian name Pero is best understood as a derivative of Germanic *perō ‘pear’. Names that al... more The Batavian name Pero is best understood as a derivative of Germanic *perō ‘pear’. Names that also feature the root per - are recorded from other parts of the Roman Empire in connection with Germanic speakers and seem to reflect the influence of pear growing in the Roman provinces. This influence was so great that the name of the p -rune also appears to have been derived from *perō ‘pear’. The early Germanic names Pero, Uxperus and Gamuxperus seem to represent occupation names, and are consistent with archaeobotanical evidence for the development of pear cultivation in the Germanic-speaking provinces of the Empire.
Enterprise & Society, 2021
British Telecom’s 1984 partial privatization set in motion the privatization and deregulation of ... more British Telecom’s 1984 partial privatization set in motion the privatization and deregulation of many international state-owned telecommunications carriers. Most previous research on the privatization and deregulation of state-owned telecommunications carriers has focused on the economic outcomes. However, this was also a time of changes in managerial practice and thinking influenced by organizational theory. This article presents an analysis of the use of the prescriptions of Rosabeth Kanter in the attempted reform of the organizational culture of Australia’s largest business in the 1980s: the government-owned telecommunications monopoly Telecom Australia (now Telstra). It details the attempt to transform Telecom under the incipient threat of the introduction of competition to the telecommunications market and demonstrates how the country’s largest change management program, Vision 2000, represented an alternative approach to telecommunications reform.
Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2021
Representative arrangements are widely employed in the governance of occupational pension funds, ... more Representative arrangements are widely employed in the governance of occupational pension funds, particularly in Australia where a sector of jointly employer/employee-sponsored ‘industry funds’ was established during the 1980s. The jointly governed industry funds are privately owned wealth-management businesses and have routinely outperformed the retirement-savings schemes run by the large listed for-profit providers. Seeking to understand why these examples of labourist ‘alternative organisations’ have outperformed more traditionally governed Australian wealth-management firms is the main purpose of this article.
Journal of Celtic Linguistics, 2021
Reading Runes. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscrip tions, Nyköping, Sweden, 2–6 September 2014, 2021
One of the most important contributors to our understanding of older runic epigraphy, elmer anton... more One of the most important contributors to our understanding of older runic epigraphy, elmer antonsen was a controversial scholar. Best remembered for bringing an overtly structural and neo-Bloomfieldian approach to the study of the earliest inscriptions, he was also something of a contrarian, promoting readings and interpretations of older runic texts which did not find much support in the broader runological historiography. This paper examines some of his more lasting contributions to the epigraphic field in terms of his analyses of a handful of older runic inscriptions: that on the Nøvling fibula, on the Lindholmen amulet and finally the memorial text on the reistad stone.
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 2020
Difficult etymologies in Germanic include that of *hanha- ‘horse’ and *hanhistaz / *hangistaz ‘st... more Difficult etymologies in Germanic include that of *hanha- ‘horse’ and *hanhistaz / *hangistaz ‘stallion’. Reflections of the latter term are widely evidenced in the Old Germanic dialects while the former is attested onomastically on a late-fourth-century memorial from Burgundy and has also been claimed to be reflected in early runic epigraphy. Both terms appear to continue a remorphologised s-stem *hanhaz ~ *hangisō and have clear Celtic counterparts. The development in Germanic seems to reflect the prehistoric date of the loaning of the s-stem *hanhaz ~ *hangisō from Celtic.
International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction , 2020
Understandings of the syntax of the older runic texts have improved greatly in recent years, maki... more Understandings of the syntax of the older runic texts have improved greatly in recent years, making it possible to identify several general features and behaviours typical of the earliest North Germanic inscriptions. The characteristic use of first-person subject pronouns, for example, points to the essential orality of the majority of the earliest runic texts and is a feature that can be used to develop more comprehensive explanations of difficult inscriptions. These include the texts on the Väsby/Esketorp bracteate, the Järsberg memorial and the Tørvika B stone. Yet a more traditional comparative perspective is also needed to explain the variation of tonic ek with clitic-(e)ka that is characteristic of the first-person texts of early runic. An inherited distinction between emphatic and intensive forms seems to explain the different morphological realisations of the first-person subject pronoun in North Germanic.
Revisiting Dispersions Celtic and Germanic ca. 400 BC-ca. 400 AD, 2020
In 1857, Theodor Mommsen published an ancient inscription etched into a large rock near Würmlach ... more In 1857, Theodor Mommsen published an ancient inscription etched into a large rock near Würmlach (Bumlje) in Carinthia. By the 1880s, more inscriptions had been found on the rock, inscribed in North Etruscan characters. Linguistically diverse, the Würmlach inscriptions appear to record a series of Celtic, Venetic and at least one example of what has usually been taken to represent a Germanic name. Six lines of clearly readable text can be made out today from the cuttings taken from the “Veneterstein” in the late nineteenth century, but the most intriguing linguistic remnant preserved in the Würmlach inscriptions is the presumably Germanic form. With the most likely terminus ante quem assigning the Würmlach inscriptions to the period of the Cimbrian Wars, the ancient Carinthian finds are among the most important testaments of the earliest linguistic history of the area.
Paper presented at AAHANZBS annual conference, University of Sydney, November 2014
Paper presented at the International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions, Nyköping, Septemb... more Paper presented at the International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions, Nyköping, September, 2014
One of the most important contributors to our understanding of older runic epigraphy, Elmer Antonsen was a controversial scholar. Best remembered for bringing an overtly structural and neo-Bloomfieldian approach to the study of the earliest inscriptions, he was also something of a contrarian, promoting readings and interpretations of older runic texts which did not find much support in the broader runological historiography. This paper examines some of his more lasting contributions to the epigraphic field in terms of his analyses of a handful of older runic inscriptions: that on the Nøvling fibula, on the Lindholmen bone-piece and finally the memorial text on the Reistad stone.
Paper presented at the 13th Biennial National Labour History Conference, 11-13 July 2013, Unions ... more Paper presented at the 13th Biennial National Labour History Conference, 11-13 July 2013, Unions NSW, Trades Hall, Sydney
Traditional analyses of Old Celtic syntax have tended to be anchored in ideas such as Wackernagel... more Traditional analyses of Old Celtic syntax have tended to be anchored in ideas such as Wackernagel's law (1892) and Vendryes's restriction which make little sense from a modern-day syntactic perspective (Agbayani and Golston 2010):
Paper presented at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, B... more Paper presented at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2003
Worker heroes remain one of the most obvious legacies of the Maoist period which inform the conce... more Worker heroes remain one of the most obvious legacies of the Maoist period which inform the conceptualisation of work in contemporary China. Figures like PLA hero Lei Feng and oil-
industry role-model “Iron Man” Wang Jinxi remain prominent features of the official Communist propaganda landscape today. Often mocked in the Western press as glaring anachronisms, the contemporary role and standing of worker heroes are assessed in this paper from a modern cultural studies perspective. The continued treasuring of such figures from the Maoist golden age goes much further than merely an expression of socialist nostalgia, but remains essential to understanding especially the moral aspect of the industrial past onto which modern Chinese capitalism has been grafted.
i: Geraldine Barnes & Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Old …, Jan 1, 2000
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This paper proposes three periodisations in the history of business ethics. Different styles and ... more This paper proposes three periodisations in the history of business ethics. Different styles and kinds of discourse were produced in each of the periods. The first includes the broader social critiques of the period of industrialisation. The Fordist era, on the other hand, produced the first attempts to describe the social responsibilities of business and standards of business conduct. The last, the post-Fordist period, saw the application of ethical theory to business matters.
History, Jan 1, 2009
The use of history in vocational undergraduate courses is contested. Although there has been a re... more The use of history in vocational undergraduate courses is contested. Although there has been a recent push to bolster the teaching of history in Australian secondary schools, history in business courses still often seems only to linger at the margins. Pleas to include historical approaches to business education are made from time to time that suggest a role for history in the curriculum that is essentially not historical – they often highlight the skills history students develop or the broader humanistic understanding usually associated with historical knowledge, not necessarily ones based on what is unique to history. This paper
argues that historical analysis is essentially different than that represented by other traditional disciplines and that this fundamental aspect of history should be at the core of
arguments to include business history in course curriculums.
Smith's recognition of the 'other people's money' problem or ... more Smith's recognition of the 'other people's money' problem or cite Berle and Means's classic analysis of the US securities industry in the roaring 20s as foundational contributions to the idea. 2 Yet the expression 'corporate governance' was not widely used before the 1980s; as ...
There has been something rather evangelical going on in the part of management studies which conc... more There has been something rather evangelical going on in the part of management studies which concentrates on “leadership” in recent years. Since the 1980s, an obsession with heroes and charisma appears to have become characteristic of the field. If you are not doing “transformational” leadership study or are not devouring the associated literature, then you are not up with the cutting edge -- or at least that is the impression that many have of contemporary leadership studies. The field is unapologetically grounded in Carlyle and Weber, and is dominated by psychologists, business academics and those ever-present survey questionnaires. Innovation, entrepreneurship and change are the managerialist buzzwords most closely associated with the concept. Indeed the transformational approach to leadership has even been christened a new “paradigm” in leadership studies, an intellectual movement that represents a pronounced recalibration of the previous “world view” held by many leadership researchers.
Ray Markey (ed.), Into the Magic Wardrobe: The Past as a Gateway to Present and Future. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference of AAHANZBS, 10-11 December 2012, Macquarie University, Centre for Workforce Futures, Macquarie University.
Since the 1970s, a discursive formation has arisen around the timeless concern that is commonly l... more Since the 1970s, a discursive formation has arisen around the timeless concern that is commonly labelled “business ethics” today. Often dismissively characterised as an oxymoronic expression, business ethics is also an odd beast from the perspective of the broader history of ideas. Moral criticism of business practice particularly in the US during the 1960s and 70s has led to the development of new theories, notions and standards of moral reasoning in a business setting that claim particularly to be based in (secular) reason, not received religious (i.e. traditionally moral) values. This paper investigates the origins of this approach to the moral aspect of decision-making in a business setting, one which is quite different to that which previously prevailed in commercial education and practice, particularly in terms of its increasing divorce since the 1970s from institutional religious understandings.
Paper presented at the 17th EABH congress, hosted by the Uppsala Centre for Business History, Aug... more Paper presented at the 17th EABH congress, hosted by the Uppsala Centre for Business History, August 2013.
Paper presented at BAM, Belfast, September 2014 This paper explores the context which informed t... more Paper presented at BAM, Belfast, September 2014
This paper explores the context which informed the emergence of transformational leadership and entrepreneurship studies in the 1980s. It proposes that these interlinked expressions of business-management scholarship reflect an individualising ethic of the time which arose in light of studies of biography and the heroization of business leaders typical of the day. Criticisms of transformational leadership and entrepreneurship studies tend to miss these key aspects that inform the resultant discourses which still remain canonical in many aspects of business-school intellectual production today.
In 1957, Clinton Hartley Grattan, one of Australia’s most important foreign observers, wrote of t... more In 1957, Clinton Hartley Grattan, one of Australia’s most important foreign observers, wrote of the shadow of the “urban” in legends of the Australian “bush”.1 He argued that the early frontiers of Australian settlement were frontiers of men with private capital, or entrepreneurs, and those frontiers thus carried more elements of the urban than is commonly realised. Such early colonial enterprises around Australia’s south and southeastern coasts, and across the Tasman included sealing, whaling, milling and pastoralism, as well as missionary, trading and finance ventures. In advance of official settlements in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, entrepreneurs mapped coastlines, pioneered trade routes and colonised lands. Backed by private capital they established colonial infrastructural architecture effecting urban expansion in the Australian colonies, New Zealand and beyond. Yet this architecture is rarely a subject of architectural histories. [...]
Tasmanian College of the Arts, organised by Harriet Edquist (RMIT) and Stuart King (UTas), October 17-18, 2016
Briefing Notes in Economics , 2010
Historiographia Linguistica, 2006
Historiographia Linguistica, 2004
Reviewed by Bernard Mees (University of Melbourne) Just about any book with the word 'Aryans' on ... more Reviewed by Bernard Mees (University of Melbourne) Just about any book with the word 'Aryans' on its spine, especially one from Halle, immediately conjures up the, in many ways, still too recent German past; and this collection of essays-revised versions of papers first presented at an interdisciplinary conference late in 1999-does indeed touch upon German Aryanism and the Nazi period in some of its contributions. But the main focus of the volume, as the subtitle suggests, is on Indian identities, albeit mostly ones developed in the light of European engagement, often, but not exclusively, first mooted during the years of the British Raj. This makes the decision to translate some of the contributions from English into German seem odd, no matter what one makes of the editors' claim that this will make the book more accessible in the German-speaking countries. But many of the more significant surveys in this work, significant in that together they give some overview of the topic hailed by the (sub)title, were first written in German, so maybe there is some logic to be found here. Perhaps the most remarkable contribution in terms of linguistics and intellectual history is that of the University of Michigan historian Thomas R. Trautmann, whose essay, continuing in the style of his 1997 monograph, presents interesting historical material, some culled from original archival research, tempered by a fair amount of affective warbling and misrepresentation. Here we are reminded of the contributions of the Orientalist compatriots of Sir William 'Asiatic' Jones: William Marsden (1754-1836), Henry Thomas Colebrook (1765-1837), Robert Caldwell (1814-1891) and others who, among other things, discovered the Dravidian language family and the Indic origins of Romany. Trautmann blithely ascribes their deep dependence on word-lists also to Jones, however, and many of the more interesting points Trautmann has to make concerning this scholar are done so more coherently in his 1997 book, rather than here. The nebulous and unsubstantiated references to Hitler, modernity and the International Phonetic Alphabet aside, though, this is a rewarding preliminary to his promised monographic study on Orientalist Dravidian studies.