The construction of communities in the early Middle Ages : texts, resources and artefacts / / edited by Richard Corradini, Max Diesenberger, Helmut Reimitz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807160603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2003
• ISBN: 1-280-91459-9; 9786610914593; 90-474-0406-8; 1-4294-0704-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: x, 417 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., facsims
• Collana: The transformation of the Roman world, , 1386-4165 ; ; v. 12
• Altri autori (Persone): CorradiniRichard; DiesenbergerMax; ReimitzHelmut
• Disciplina: 940.1/2
• Soggetti: Social history - Medieval, 500-1500; Civilization, Medieval; Communities - History - To 1500; Europe History 476-1492; Europe History To 476
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "This volume is a result of the European Science Foundation programme 'The Transformation of the Roman World'"--P. [vii].
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-396) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Plate Section -- Acknowledgments -- List of plates, figures, and tables -- The construction of communities and the persistence of paradox: an introduction -- Structures and resources of power in early medieval Europe -- Gens. Terminology and perception of the 'Germanic' peoples from late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages -- The refugees and evacuees in the age of migrations -- The 'gold hoards' of the early migration period in south-eastern Europe and the late Roman Empire -- The nomad's greed for gold: from the fall of the Burgundians to the Avar treasure -- Alaricus rex: legitimizing a Gothic king -- Changes in the topography of power: from civitates to urbes regiae in Hispania -- Deconstructing the Merovingian family -- Hair, sacrality and symbolic capital in the Frankish kingdoms -- The ritual ; significance of vessels in the formation of Merovingian christian communities -- Social networks and identities in Frankish historiography. New aspects of the textual history of Gregory of Tours' Historiae -- The rhetoric of crisis. Computus and Liber annalis in early ninth-century Fulda -- The History of Ibn Habib and ethnogenesis in Al-Andalus -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Notes on Contributors.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume provides a complex discussion of the variety of social efforts which were undertaken to create meaningful communities in the process of the formation of the early medieval gentes and kingdoms in the post-Roman west.