Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 417 p., [24] p. of plates)
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ill., facsims
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9004118624
Series Statement:
The transformation of the Roman world v. 12
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Plate Section -- Acknowledgments -- List of plates, figures, and tables -- The construction of communities and the persistence of paradox: an introduction -- Structures and resources of power in early medieval Europe -- Gens. Terminology and perception of the 'Germanic' peoples from late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages -- The refugees and evacuees in the age of migrations -- The 'gold hoards' of the early migration period in south-eastern Europe and the late Roman Empire -- The nomad's greed for gold: from the fall of the Burgundians to the Avar treasure -- Alaricus rex: legitimizing a Gothic king -- Changes in the topography of power: from civitates to urbes regiae in Hispania -- Deconstructing the Merovingian family -- Hair, sacrality and symbolic capital in the Frankish kingdoms -- The ritual significance of vessels in the formation of Merovingian christian communities -- Social networks and identities in Frankish historiography. New aspects of the textual history of Gregory of Tours' Historiae -- The rhetoric of crisis. Computus and Liber annalis in early ninth-century Fulda -- The History of Ibn Habib and ethnogenesis in Al-Andalus -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Notes on Contributors.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-396) and index
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"This volume is a result of the European Science Foundation programme 'The Transformation of the Roman World'"--P. [vii]
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""CONTENTS""; ""Plate Section""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""List of plates, figures, and tables""; ""The construction of communities and the persistence of paradox: an introduction""; ""Structures and resources of power in early medieval Europe""; ""Gens. Terminology and perception of the 'Germanic' peoples from late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages""; ""The refugees and evacuees in the age of migrations""; ""The 'gold hoards' of the early migration period in south-eastern Europe and the late Roman Empire""; ""The nomad's greed for gold: from the fall of the Burgundians to the Avar treasure""
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""Alaricus rex: legitimizing a Gothic king""""Changes in the topography of power: from civitates to urbes regiae in Hispania""; ""Deconstructing the Merovingian family""; ""Hair, sacrality and symbolic capital in the Frankish kingdoms""; ""The ritual significance of vessels in the formation of Merovingian christian communities""; ""Social networks and identities in Frankish historiography. New aspects of the textual history of Gregory of Tours' Historiae""; ""The rhetoric of crisis. Computus and Liber annalis in early ninth-century Fulda""
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""The History of Ibn Habib and ethnogenesis in Al-Andalus""""Abbreviations""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Notes on Contributors""
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004118621
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Construction of Communities in the Early Middle Ages : Texts, Resources and Artefacts
Language:
English
Author information:
Diesenberger, Maximilian 1969-
