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Title The construction of communities in the early Middle Ages : texts, resources and artefacts / edited by Richard Corradini, Max Diesenberger, Helmut Reimitz
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 417 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, facsimiles
Series The transformation of the Roman world, 1386-4165 ; v. 12
Transformation of the Roman world ; v. 12.
Contents The construction of communities and the persistence of paradox : an introduction / Walter Polh -- Structures and resources of power i early medieval Europe / Dick Harrison -- Gens. Terminology and perception of the 'Germanic' peoples from late Antiquity to the early Middles Ages / Hans Liebeschuetz -- The 'gold hoards' of the early migration period in south-eastern Europe and the late Roman Empire / Michael Schmauder -- The nomad's greed for gold : from the fall of the Burgundians to the Avar treasure / Matthias Hardt -- Alaricus rex : legitimizing a Gothic king / Hagith Sivan -- Changes in the topography of power : from civitates to urbes regiae in Hispania / Gisela Ripoll -- Deconstructing the Merovingian family / Ian Wood -- Hair, sacrality and symbolic capital in the Frankish kingdoms / Maximilian Diesenberger -- The ritual significance of vessels in the formation of Merovingian christian communities / Bonnie Effros -- Social networks and identities in Frankish historiography. New aspects of the textual history of Gregory of Tours' Historiae / Helmut Reimitz -- The rhetoric of crisis. Computus and Liber annalis in early nineth-century Fulda / Richard Corradini -- The history of Ibn Habib and ethnogenesis in Al-Andalus / Ann Christys
Summary This volume offers a comparative study of the ways in which the new communities that developed in the course of the 'transformation of the Roman world' (4th-8th centuries) were pulled together. In understanding the political, social, religious and ethnic formations in the early medieval West as "communities under construction", the various contributions attempt an exemplary discussion of the various forms in which significance and cohesion could be achieved. Case studies include the terminology of ethnicity; population movements (evacuees and refugees); treasures in their material and symbolic aspects; early kingship, cities and ethnic survivals of the Visigoths; Merovingian identities and hairstyles; Christian communities and historiography in the Frankish kingdoms
Notes "This volume is a result of the European Science Foundation programme 'The Transformation of the Roman World'"--Page vii
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-396) and index
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Subject Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
Civilization, Medieval.
Communities -- History -- To 1500
Social groups -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY.
Social groups
Civilization, Medieval
Communities
Social history -- Medieval
Völkerwanderungszeit
Ethnogenese
Lokale gemeenschappen.
Vroege middeleeuwen.
SUBJECT Europe -- History -- 476-1492. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045690
Europe -- History -- To 476. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045688
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Corradini, Richard
Diesenberger, Max
Reimitz, Helmut
ISBN 9004118624
9789004118621
1429407042
9781429407045
1280914599
9781280914591
9786610914593
6610914591
9047404068
9789047404064