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Author Buchberger, Erica, 1979- author.

Title Shifting ethnic identities in Spain and Gaul, 500-700 : from Romans to Goths and Franks / Erica Buchberger
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (218 pages)
Series Late antique and early Medieval Iberia ; 4
Late antique and early medieval Iberia ; 4.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Scholarly Tradition; Methodology; Chapter Breakdown; Terminology; Part I -- From a Roman to a Gothic World in Visigothic Spain; 1. Arians to Catholics; John of Biclar's Chronicle; Isidore of Seville's History (up to 589); The Third Council of Toledo; The Lives of the Fathers of Mérida; Conclusion: The Evidence Together; 2. Church and State: Isidore and his Influence; Isidore's History (post-589); Church Councils to 654; Conclusion; 3. The Later Seventh Century; Chindaswinth, Recceswinth, and Visigothic Law; Later Councils and Laws; Conclusion
Part II -- From a Roman to a Frankish World in Merovingian Gaul4. Gregory of Tours; The Late Roman Empire and Clovis' Reign; Contemporary Era; Conclusion; 5. Venantius Fortunatus; Duke Lupus; Leontius II of Bordeaux; The Ruricii; Vilithuta; Duke Launebod; King Charibert; Radegund; Conclusion; 6. Fredegar; Book Three: Rewriting Gregory; Book Four: Fredegar's Original Work; Conclusion; 7. Frankish Hagiography; Caesarius of Arles; Gaugeric of Cambrai; Eligius of Noyon; Conclusion; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index
Summary Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglecting the Romans themselves, in part because modern scholars have viewed the concept of being Roman as one denoting primarily a cultural or legal affiliation. As this book demonstrates, however, early medieval 'Romanness' also encompassed a sense of belonging to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in a more nuanced manner than has been previously acknowledged in the literature
Analysis Late Antiquity, ethnicity, Romans, Visigoths, Franks
Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral) -- University of Oxford
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-211) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Ethnology -- Rome
Ethnology -- Spain.
Ethnology -- Gaul.
Romans.
Gauls.
Franks.
Ethnology -- Italy.
Ancient history: to c 500 CE.
Classical history / classical civilisation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Ethnology
Franks
Gauls
Romans
Europe -- Gaul
Rome (Empire)
Spain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789048527441
9048527449
9048551242
9789048551248