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The construction of communities in the early Middle Ages : texts, resources and artefacts /

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 We...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Corradini, Richard, Diesenberger, Max, Reimitz, Helmut
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
Colección:Transformation of the Roman world ; v. 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.