From Roman Provinces to Barbarian Kingdoms
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780203322956
Subjects: Middle Ages; History
Description: How, when and why did the Middle Ages begin?  This reader gathers together a prestigious collection of revisionist thinking on questions of key research in medieval studies.
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Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; List of Figures; Contributors; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Maps; A Chronology of romans and barbarians in late antiquity; Introduction; Part I Barbarian ethnicity and identity; 1 The crisis of European identity; 2 Gothic history as historical ethnography; 3 Origo et religio: Ethnic traditions and literature in early medieval texts; 4 Does the distant past impinge on the invasion age germans; 5 Defining the franks: Frankish origins in early medieval historiography.; title: 6 Telling the difference: Signs of ethnic identity7 Gender and ethnicity in the early middle ages; 8 Grave goods and the ritual expression of identity; 9 The barbaians in late antiquity and how they were accommodated in the west; 10 Archaeologists and migrations: A problem of attitude; 11 Movers and shakers: The barbarians and the fall of Rome; 12 Foedera and foederati of the fourth century; 13 Cities, taxes, and the accommodation of the barbarians; 14 The two faces of king childeric: History, archaeology, historiography; 15 Frankish victory celebrations.; title: 16 Administration, law, and culture in merovingian gaul17 'Pax Et Discipline'; Index.