Strategies of Distinction
The Construction of Ethnic Communities, 300-800
Published on 23. February 1998
Book
Hardback
VIII, 347 pages
978-90-04-10846-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'...a useful and generally substantial collection of articles...'Roger Collins, Early Medieval Europe, 2000.
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Series
Language
English
French
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
826 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-10846-2 (9789004108462)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Walter Pohl, Dr. phil. (1984) is researcher for the Austrian Academy of Arts and Sciences (Commission for Research on the Early Middle Ages) and lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Vienna. His publications include Die Awaren (Munich, 1988).
Content
W. Pohl: Telling the Difference: Signs of Ethnic Identity
E. Chrysos: Ethnic Names and Territorial Names
J. Jarnut: Nomen et Gens
P. Heather: Disappearing and Reappearing Tribes
D. Claude: Remarks to the relationship between Visigoths and Hispano-Romans in the 7th Century
J. Liebeschuetz: Citizen Status and Law in the Roman Empire and the Visigothic Kingdom
G. Ripoll: The Arrival of the Visigoths in Hispania: Population Problems and Process of Acculturation
B. Pohl-Resl: Legal Practice and Ethnic Identity in Lombard Italy
M. Kazanski: Le royaume de Vinitharius: Le recit de Jordanes et les donnees archeologiques
J. Arce: Hydatius and the Camels of Gallaecia
P. Heather: Theoderic Augustus: Myth and Reality in Cassidorus's Variae
D. Harrison: Political Rhetoric and Political Ideology in Lombard Italy
M. Hardt: Royal Treasures and Representation in the Early Middle Ages
M. Schmauder: Imperial Distinction or Barbaric Imitation? The Kaiserfibeln
E. Chrysos: Ethnic Names and Territorial Names
J. Jarnut: Nomen et Gens
P. Heather: Disappearing and Reappearing Tribes
D. Claude: Remarks to the relationship between Visigoths and Hispano-Romans in the 7th Century
J. Liebeschuetz: Citizen Status and Law in the Roman Empire and the Visigothic Kingdom
G. Ripoll: The Arrival of the Visigoths in Hispania: Population Problems and Process of Acculturation
B. Pohl-Resl: Legal Practice and Ethnic Identity in Lombard Italy
M. Kazanski: Le royaume de Vinitharius: Le recit de Jordanes et les donnees archeologiques
J. Arce: Hydatius and the Camels of Gallaecia
P. Heather: Theoderic Augustus: Myth and Reality in Cassidorus's Variae
D. Harrison: Political Rhetoric and Political Ideology in Lombard Italy
M. Hardt: Royal Treasures and Representation in the Early Middle Ages
M. Schmauder: Imperial Distinction or Barbaric Imitation? The Kaiserfibeln