The Germanic Realms in Pre-Carolingian Central Europe 400-750
Series: American University Studies Series IX, History
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780820449654
Subjects: Europe - Germany; History - General History; Civilization, Germanic; Europe; Germanic peoples; Germans; Germany; History; Italy; Rome; To 843; History: World
Description: "The Germanic Realms in Pre-Carolingian Central Europe, 400-750 complements the scant historical and ethnographic information left by the classical authors about the peoples of the "migration" period in Central Europe with extensive archeological evidence. This allows additional conclusions about what the people valued, what their sense of style was, how they felt about one another, where and how they lived, and from what they suffered and died. We can even deduce something of their beliefs.

By examining their settlement patterns, funerary practices, material cultures, myths of origin and their Christianization, this book presents a complementary picture of their individual characteristics. It is the intention of this book to make available for English readers a clearer cultural profile of the emergent populations in early medieval Central Europe."--BOOK JACKET.