The construction of communities in the early Middle Ages

Brill

2003

X-417 p. - [24] p. de plates

Transformation of the roman world ; 12

9789004118621

AcknowledgementsList of plates, figures and tablesThe construction of communities and the persistence of paradox: an introduction Walter PohlStructures and resources of power in early medieval Europe Dick HarrisonGens. Terminology and perception of the 'Germanic' peoples from late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages Hans-Werner GoetzThe refugees and evacuees in the age of migrations Wolf LiebeschuetzThe 'gold hoards' of the early migration period in south-eastern Europe and the late Roman Empire Michael SchmauderTh enomad's greed for gold: from the fall of the Burgundians to the Avar treasure Matthias HardtAlaricus rex: legitimizing a Gothic king Hagith SivanChanges in the topography of power: from civitates to urbes regia in Hispania, Gisela RipollDeconstructing the Merovingian family Ian WoodHair, sacrality and symbolic capital in the Frankish kingdoms Maximilian DiesenbergerThe ritual significance of vesels in the formation of Merovingian Christian communities Bonnie EffrosSocial networks and identities in Frankish histotiography. New aspects of the textual history of Gregory of Tours' Historiae, Helmut ReimitzThe rhetoric of crisis. Computus and Liber annalis in early ninth-century Fulda Richard CorradiniThe History of Obn Habib and ethnographies in Al-Andalus Ann ChristysAbbreviationsBibliographyIndexNotes on contributors

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