Franks, Northmen, and Slavs
Subtitle: identities and state formation in early medieval Europe
By: edited by Ildar H. Garipzanov, Patrick J. Geary and Przemysław Urbańczyk.
Contributors: Garipzanov, Ildar H.; Geary, Patrick J., 1948-; Urbańczyk, Przemysław.
Series: Cursor mundi
Publisher: Brepols; Brepols Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9782503526157
Subjects: Middle Ages.; Franks -- History.; Northmen -- History.; Slavs -- History.; Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
Description: 266 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents … v; title: Abbreviations	… vii; title: List of Maps … ix; title: ◦; title: Introduction:  Gentes, Gentile Identity, and State Formation in Early Medieval Europe; title: ILDAR H. GARIPZANOV, PATRICK J. GEARY, and PRZEMYSŁAW URBAŃCZYK; title: ◦; title: I. FRANKS:  IDENTITIES IN THE MIGRATION AND CAROLINGIAN PERIODS; title: ◦; title: 1. Ethnicity, Group Identity, and Social Status in the Migration Period … 17; title: PETER J. HEATHER; title: ◦; title: — Nationalism and Beyond … 18; title: — Identity in the Post-Nationalist Period … 26; title: — Moving Forward? … 36; title: — Conclusions … 47; title: ◦; title: 2. Omnes Franci: Identifications and Identities of the Early Medieval Franks … 51; title: HELMUT REIMITZ; title: ◦; title: 3. Frankish Identity in Charlemagne's Empire … 71; title: JANET L. NELSON; title: ◦; title: — Annals … 74; title: — Einhard … 75; title: — Miscellaneous Texts … 77; title: — Capitularies and Legal Business … 80; title: ◦; title: II. NORTHMEN:  IDENTITIES AND STATE FORMATION IN SCANDINAVIA; title: ◦; title: 4. People and land in Early Scandinavia … 87; title: STEFAN BRINK; title: ◦; title: 5. Frontier Identities:  Carolingian Frontier and the gens Danorum … 113; title: ILDAR H. GARIPZANOV; title: ◦; title: — Gens Danorum in the Frankish Written Discourse of the Ninth Century … 115; title: — The Old English Orosius, Onomastics, and Political Geography of South Scandinavia … 125; title: — Gens Danorum and a Polity in Southern Jutland … 131; title: — The Haithabu Coinage … 135; title: ◦; title: ◦; title: 6. Division and Unity in Medieval Norway … 145; title: SVERRE BAGGE; title: ◦; title: — Ethnic and Local Communities in Early Medieval Norway … 146; title: — The Unification of a Long Periphery … 154; title: — King and People:  Patriotism and a Common Culture? … 157; title: ◦; title: III. SLAVS:  IDENTITIES AND STATE FORMATION IN THE SLAVIC WORLD; title: ◦; title: 7. The Primary Chronicle’s ‘Ethnography’ Revisited:  Slavs and Varangians in the Middle Dnieper Region and the Origin of the Rus’ State … 169; title: OLEKSIY P. TOLOCHKO; title: ◦; title: — The Migration Myth … 170; title: — ‘Savages of the Past’ … 172; title: — The Story of Babel Retold … 177; title: — The Royal Clan … 183; title: ◦; title: 8. Christianity and Paganism as Elements of Gentile Identities to the East of the Elbe and Saale Rivers … 189; title: CHRISTIAN LÜBKE; title: ◦; title: 9. Slavic and Christian Identities during the Transition to Polish Statehood … 205; title: PRZEMYSŁAW URBAŃCZYK; title: ◦; title: 10. Identities in Early Medieval Dalmatia (Seventh-Eleventh Centuries) … 223; title: NEVEN BUDAK; title: ◦; title: 11. Slovenian Gentile Identity:  From Samo to the Fürstenstein … 243; title: PATRICK J. GEARY; title: ◦; title: Index … 259