The 70th birthday of Heiko Steuer, Professor of Pre- and Protohistory at Freiburg University from 1984 to 2005, and for many years one of the editors of the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , has been the occasion for the presentation of this collection of 35 papers. The six sections cover Steuer's research fields: 1. Prehistory, 2. Antiquity, 3. The Early Middle Ages in West and South Europe, 4. The Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe, 5. The High and Late Middle Ages, 6. The history of scholarship and matters of method.

Sebastian Brather und Christoph Huth, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau; Dieter Geuenich, Universität Duisburg-Essen.