The Construction of Communities in the Early Middle Ages
Texts, Resources and Artefacts
Published on 31. October 2002
Book
Hardback
418 pages
978-90-04-11862-1 (ISBN)
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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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth
With dust jacket
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Height: 243 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
943 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-11862-1 (9789004118621)
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Richard Corradini, Ph.D. (2000), University of Vienna, is Researcher at the Medieval History Research Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and works on Frankish historiography and late antique and early medieval computus and perceptions of time. His publications include Zeit und Text. Studien zum tempus-Begriff des Augustinus (1997), Die Wiener Handschrift Cvp 430*. Ein Beitrag zur Historiographie in Fulda im fruehen 9. Jahrhundert (2000).
Max Diesenberger, Ph.D. (2001), University of Vienna, is Researcher at the Medieval History Research Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He works on early medieval hagiography and manuscript transmission, on perceptions of nature and on ideas of sacrality.
Helmut Reimitz, Ph.D. (1999), University of Vienna, is Researcher at the Medieval History Research Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Vienna. He works on the manuscript transmission of early medieval historiography and on concepts of identity in the Frankish world.
Max Diesenberger, Ph.D. (2001), University of Vienna, is Researcher at the Medieval History Research Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He works on early medieval hagiography and manuscript transmission, on perceptions of nature and on ideas of sacrality.
Helmut Reimitz, Ph.D. (1999), University of Vienna, is Researcher at the Medieval History Research Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Vienna. He works on the manuscript transmission of early medieval historiography and on concepts of identity in the Frankish world.
Content
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
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