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History, Frankish identity and the framing of Western ethnicity, 550-850 /

"This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historiography, it offers a new basis for comparing the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reimitz, Helmut
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Colección:Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth series ; bk. 101.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Communities of the Middle Ground in Sixth-Century Gaul
  • 1. Gregory of Tours and his genealogy of pastoral power in late antique Gaul
  • 2. Virtutes sanctorum et strages gentium : "The deeds of the saints and the slaughters of the peoples" : the radicalisation of church history
  • 3. The dangers of history
  • 4. Continuities and discontinuities : Roman and Frankish alternatives to Gregory
  • 5. The politics of identity in the Merovingian kingdoms of the sixth century
  • Part II. Countermyths : The Search for Origins in the Merovingian Kingdoms
  • 6. The persistence of Gregory's vision of community : the réécriture and reconfiguration of the Histories in the seventh century
  • 7. Iocundus in fabolis et strenuus in consiliis : Roman trickery and Frankish mythmaking in the Chronicle of Fredegar
  • 8." ... sicut ceterae gentes" : " ... like the other peoples" : the Liber historiae Francorum and the definition of the populus in the seventh and eighth century
  • 9. Spielräume of Frankish identity in the long seventh century
  • Part III. A Common Future : The Reforms of Frankish Identity under the Carolingians
  • 10. Gens Francorum inclita : "the illustrious Frankish people" : the centralization of Frankishness under the early Carolingians
  • 11. Correctio : the redefinition of central Frankishness
  • 12. Before and after 800 : central and local Frankishness in the Carolingian world
  • 13. Before and after 829 : the transformation of Frankish identity from the short to the long history of the Royal Frankish Annals
  • Conclusion: Frankish identity, Western ethnicity.