Transformations of Romanness : Early Medieval Regions and Identities / Walter Pohl, Clemens Gantner, Cinzia Grifoni, Marianne Pollheimer-Mohaupt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pohl, Walter, Editor.

Contributor:

Gantner, Clemens, editor.

Grifoni, C., editor.

Pohl, Walter, editor.

Pollheimer-Mohaupt, Marianne, editor.

Series:

Millennium-Studien ; 1862-1139 Volume 71.

Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies ; 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval--Roman influences.

Civilization, Medieval.

National characteristics, Roman.

Rome--Civilization--Influence.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (600 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

W. Pohl and C. Grifoni, Universität Wien; C. Gantner and M. Pollheimer-Mohaupt, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien.

Summary:

Roman identity is one of the most interesting cases of social identity because in the course of time, it could mean so many different things: for instance, Greek-speaking subjects of the Byzantine empire, inhabitants of the city of Rome, autonomous civic or regional groups, Latin speakers under 'barbarian' rule in the West or, increasingly, representatives of the Church of Rome. Eventually, the Christian dimension of Roman identity gained ground. The shifting concepts of Romanness represent a methodological challenge for studies of ethnicity because, depending on its uses, Roman identity may be regarded as 'ethnic' in a broad sense, but under most criteria, it is not. Romanness is indeed a test case how an established and prestigious social identity can acquire many different shades of meaning, which we would class as civic, political, imperial, ethnic, cultural, legal, religious, regional or as status groups. This book offers comprehensive overviews of the meaning of Romanness in most (former) Roman provinces, complemented by a number of comparative and thematic studies. A similarly wide-ranging overview has not been available so far.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

List of figures

Preface and acknowledgements

Aspects of Romanness in the early Middle Ages

Introduction: Early medieval Romanness - a multiple identity / Pohl, Walter

Transformations of Romanness: The northern Gallic case / Halsall, Guy

Compelling and intense: The Christian transformation of Romanness / Hen, Yitzhak

The Late Antique and Byzantine Empire

Romans, barbarians and provincials in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus / Bjornlie, M. Shane

A stone in the Capitol: Some aspects of res publica and romanitas in Augustine / Corradini, Richard

Remarks on linguistic Romanness in Byzantium / Koder, Johannes

Byzantine Romanness: From geopolitical to ethnic conceptions / Stouraitis, Ioannis

The City of Rome

'Romanness' and Rome in the early Middle Ages / McKitterick, Rosamond

The post-imperial Romanness of the Romans / Delogu, Paolo

The Roman past in the consciousness of the Roman elites in the ninth and tenth centuries / West-Harling, Veronica

Italy and the Adriatic

Looking up to Rome: Romanness through the hagiography from the duchy of Spoleto / Vocino, Giorgia

Rome and Romanness in Latin southern Italian sources, 8th-10th centuries / Granier, Thomas

Between Rome and Constantinople: The Romanness of Byzantine southern Italy (9th-11th centuries) / Peters-Custot, Annick

Dalmatian Romans and their Adriatic friends: Some further remarks / Borri, Francesco

Gaul

'Roman' identity in Late Antiquity, with special attention to Gaul / Mathisen, Ralph W.

Roman barbarians in the Burgundian province / Wood, Ian

Histories of Romanness in the Merovingian kingdoms / Reimitz, Helmut

Romanness in Merovingian hagiography: A case study in class and political culture / Kreiner, Jamie

Roman law as an identity marker in post-Roman Gaul (5th‒9th centuries) / Esders, Stefan

From subordination to integration: Romans in Frankish law / Bothe, Lukas

The Iberian Peninsula

Goths and Romans in Visigothic Hispania / Arce, Javier

'Made by the ancients': Romanness in al-Andalus / Christys, Ann

Northern peripheries: Britain and Noricum

Walchen, Vlachs and Welsh: A Germanic ethnonym and its many uses / Hartl, Ingrid

Four communities of pot and glass recyclers in early post-Roman Britain / Fleming, Robin

Romanness at the fringes of the Frankish Empire: The strange case of Bavaria / Winckler, Katharina

From Roman provinces to Islamic lands

When not in Rome, still do as the Romans do? Africa from 146 BCE to the 7th century / Steinacher, Roland

Romanness in the Syriac East / Tannous, Jack

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

3-11-059756-X

3-11-059838-8

OCLC:

1046610361