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Strategies of Distinction: The Construction of Ethnic Communities, 300-800

By Walter Pohl , Helmut Reimitz

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
1998
ISBN
9004108467, 9789004108462
ISSN
1386-4165
LCC
GN575 .S88 1998
Google Books ID
OAZ1WNWSockC
Open Library ID
OL692888M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14196150 bytes)
Series
The Transformation of the Roman World volume 2
Pages
374\374
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Between the 4th and 8th century, a number of "experimental" politics had to create new forms of legitimacy and organization to overcome a Roman world based on empire, city and tribe. In the course of time, a new world developed that relied on Christendom, kingdom and people to pull a variety of local communities together. This volume discusses the process of construction of ethnic identities. What did names, law, language, costume, burial rites, rhetoric, culture, royal representation or ideology mean, and to whom? This question is common to the papers collected in the book. They span several centuries and a geographic area from the Iberian peninsula to the Black Sea steppes, and all deal with the ways in which ethnic distinction became a political factor in the post-Roman world.

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