UID:
almafu_9960118190002883
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1 online resource (xx, 279 pages) :
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ISBN:
1-78744-063-X
Inhalt:
From as early as the first century AD, learned Romans knew of more than one group of people living in north-western Europe beyond their Empire's Gallic provinces whose names contained the element that gives us modern "Frisian". These were apparently Celtic-speaking peoples, but that population was probably completely replaced in the course of the convulsions that Europe underwent during the fourth and fifth centuries. While the importance of linguistically Germanic Frisians as neighbours of the Anglo-Saxons, Franks, Saxons and Danes in the centuries immediately following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West is widely recognized, these folk themselves remain enigmatic, the details of their culture and organization unfamiliar to many. The Frisian population and their lands, including all the coastal communities of the North sea region and their connections with the Baltic shores, form the focal point of this volume, though viewed often through comparison with, or even through the eyes of, their neighbours. The essays present the most up-to-date discoveries, research and interpretation, combining and integrating linguistic, textual and archaeological evidence; they follow the story of the various Frisians through from the Roman Period to the next great period of disruption and change introduced by the Viking Scandinavians. John Hines is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University; Nelleke IJssennagger is Curator of Archaeological and Medieval Collections at the Fries Museum (the Frisian Museum). Contributors: Elzbieta Adamczyk, Iris Aufderhaar, Pieterjan Deckers, Menno Dijkstra, John Hines, Nelleke Ijssennagger, Hauke Jöns, Egge Knol, Jan de Koning, Johan Nicolay, Han Nijdam, Tim Pestell, Peter Schrijver, Arjen Versloot, Gaby Waxenberger, Christiane Zimmermann.
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Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Linguistic Conventions and Abbreviations -- Abstracts -- Introduction: Frisians - Who, When, Where, Why? -- 1. Palaeogeography and People: Historical Frisians in an archaeological light -- 2. The Anglo-Frisian Question -- 3. Frisian between the Roman and the Early Medieval Periods: Language contact, Celts and Romans -- 4. 'All quiet on the Western Front?' The Western Netherlands and the 'North Sea Culture' in the Migration Period -- 5. Power and Identity in the Southern North Sea Area: The Migration and Merovingian Periods -- 6. How 'English' is the Early Frisian Runic Corpus? The evidence of sounds and forms -- 7. The Geography and Dialects of Old Saxon: River-basin communication networks and the distributional patterns of North Sea Germanic features in Old Saxon -- 8. Between Sievern and Gudendorf: Enclosed sites in the north-western Elbe-Weser triangle and their significance in respect of society, communication and migration during the Roman Iron Age and Migration Period -- 9. Cultural Convergence in a Maritime Context: Language and material culture as parallel phenomena in the early-medieval southern North Sea region -- 10. The Kingdom of East Anglia, Frisia and Continental Connections, c. ad 600-900 -- 11. A Comparison of the Injury Tariffs in the Early Kentish and the Frisian Law Codes -- 12. Cultural Contacts between the Western Baltic, the North Sea Region and Scandinavia: Attributing runic finds to runic traditions and corpora of the Early Viking Age -- Index.
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ISBN 1-78327-179-5
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9781787440630
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