Strategies of Distinction

The Construction of Ethnic Communities, 300-800
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-04-10846-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 826 g

Reihe: Transformation of the Roman World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pohl, Walter

Reimitz, Helmut

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 récit de Jordanes et les données archéologiques
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

Über Autor(innen)

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).