The construction of communities in the early Middle Ages : texts, resources and artefacts / edited by Richard Corradini, Max Diesenberger, Helmut Reimitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corradini, Richard.

Diesenberger, Max.

Reimitz, Helmut.

Series:

Transformation of the Roman world ; v. 12.

The transformation of the Roman world, 1386-4165 ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Social history.

Civilization, Medieval.

Communities--History--To 1500.

Communities.

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

Europe--History--To 476.

Physical Description:

x, 417 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., facsims.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume provides a complex discussion of the variety of social efforts which were undertaken to create meaningful communities in the process of the formation of the early medieval gentes and kingdoms in the post-Roman west.

Contents:

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

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K

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Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

"This volume is a result of the European Science Foundation programme 'The Transformation of the Roman World'"--P. [vii].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-396) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-91459-9

9786610914593

90-474-0406-8

1-4294-0704-2

OCLC:

182530276