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Shifting Ethnic Identities in Spain and Gaul, 500700: From Romans to Goths and Franks (Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia)
Erica Buchberger
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Hardcover. As this book demonstrates, early medieval 'Romanness' encompassed a sense of belonging to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in a more nuanced manner than has been previously acknowledged in the literature. Series: Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia. Num Pages: 218 pages, 0 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglecting the Romans themselves, in part because modern scholars have viewed the concept of being Roman as one denoting primarily a cultural or legal affiliation. As this book demonstrates, however, early medieval 'Romanness' also encompassed a sense of belonging to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in a more nuanced manner than has been previously acknowledged in the literature.
Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglecting the Romans themselves, in part because modern scholars have viewed the concept of being Roman as one denoting primarily a cultural or legal affiliation. As this book demonstrates, however, early medieval 'Romanness' also encompassed a sense of belonging to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in a more nuanced manner than has been previously acknowledged in the literature.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Condition
New
Series
Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789089648808
SKU
V9789089648808
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About Erica Buchberger
Erica Buchberger is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas.
Reviews for Shifting Ethnic Identities in Spain and Gaul, 500700: From Romans to Goths and Franks (Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia)
"In this delightfully readable monograph, Buchberger address a perennial question of the early Middle Ages namely how did entire populations of individuals once identified as Romans come to be labeled under the Germanic ethnicities of their respective barbarian kings? (...) Across an impressive range of texts (histories, hagiographies, legal codes), she enumerates the complex, multivalent, and even paradoxical ways that ... Read more