UID:
almahu_9949700986802882
Umfang:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047404064
,
9789004118621
Serie:
Transformation of the Roman World ; 12
Inhalt:
This volume offers a comparative study of the ways in which the new communities that developed in the course of the 'transformation of the Roman world' (4th-8th centuries) were pulled together. In understanding the political, social, religious and ethnic formations in the early medieval West as "communities under construction", the various contributions attempt an exemplary discussion of the various forms in which significance and cohesion could be achieved. Case studies include the terminology of ethnicity; population movements (evacuees and refugees); treasures in their material and symbolic aspects; early kingship, cities and ethnic survivals of the Visigoths; Merovingian identities and hairstyles; Christian communities and historiography in the Frankish kingdoms.
Anmerkung:
Acknowledgements -- List of plates, figures and tables -- The construction of communities and the persistence of paradox: an introduction Walter Pohl -- Structures and resources of power in early medieval Europe Dick Harrison -- Gens. Terminology and perception of the 'Germanic' peoples from late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages Hans-Werner Goetz -- The refugees and evacuees in the age of migrations Wolf Liebeschuetz -- The 'gold hoards' of the early migration period in south-eastern Europe and the late Roman Empire Michael Schmauder -- Th enomad's greed for gold: from the fall of the Burgundians to the Avar treasure Matthias Hardt -- Alaricus rex: legitimizing a Gothic king Hagith Sivan -- Changes in the topography of power: from civitates to urbes regia in Hispania, Gisela Ripoll -- Deconstructing the Merovingian family Ian Wood -- Hair, sacrality and symbolic capital in the Frankish kingdoms Maximilian Diesenberger -- The ritual significance of vesels in the formation of Merovingian Christian communities Bonnie Effros -- Social networks and identities in Frankish histotiography. New aspects of the textual history of Gregory of Tours' Historiae, Helmut Reimitz -- The rhetoric of crisis. Computus and Liber annalis in early ninth-century Fulda Richard Corradini -- The History of Obn Habib and ethnographies in Al-Andalus Ann Christys -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Notes on contributors.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: The Construction of Communities in the Early Middle Ages : Texts, Resources and Artefacts. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2003 ISBN 9789004118621
Sprache:
Englisch
