Format:
1 Online-Ressource (374 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9789004609518
Series Statement:
European History and Culture - Book Archive pre-2000 2
Content:
Between the fourth and the eight century, a number of 'experimental' polities had to create new forms of legitimacy and organisation to overcome a Roman world based on Empire, city and tribe. In the course of time, a new world developed that relied on Christendom, kingdom and people to pull an increased variety of local communities together. Of these three factors, the ethnic one certainly is the most elusive. This volume discusses the process of construction of ethnic identities. What did names, law, language, costume, burial rites, rhetoric, culture, royal representation or ideology mean, and to whom? This is the question that is common to the papers assembled here. Even though they span several centuries, and a geographic area from the Iberian peninsula to the Black Sea steppes, they all deal with the ways how ethnic distinction became a political factor in the post-Roman world
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Preliminary Material /
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English and French
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004108462
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Strategies of Distinction : The Construction of Ethnic Communities, 300-800 Leiden : Brill, 1998 ISBN 9789004108462
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004609518
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