History, Frankish identity and the framing of Western ethnicity, 550-850
| 1. Verfasser: |
Reimitz, Helmut, 1965-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xiv, 513 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought
4th series, 101 |
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| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 1 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Part I. Communities of the Middle Ground in Sixth-Century Gaul
- 1. Gregory of Tours and his genealogy of pastoral power in late antique Gaul
- 2. Virtutes sanctorum et strages gentium : "The deeds of the saints and the slaughters of the peoples" : the radicalisation of church history
- 3. The dangers of history
- 4. Continuities and discontinuities : Roman and Frankish alternatives to Gregory
- 5. The politics of identity in the Merovingian kingdoms of the sixth century
- Part II. Countermyths : The Search for Origins in the Merovingian Kingdoms
- 6. The persistence of Gregory's vision of community : the reecriture and reconfiguration of the Histories in the seventh century
- 7. Iocundus in fabolis et strenuus in consiliis : Roman trickery and Frankish mythmaking in the Chronicle of Fredegar
- 8. "... sicut ceterae gentes" : "...like the other peoples" : the Liber historiae Francorum and the definition of the populus in the seventh and eighth century
- 9. Spielräume of Frankish identity in the long seventh century
- Part III. A Common Future : The Reforms of Frankish Identity under the Carolingians
- 10. Gens Francorum inclita : "the illustrious Frankish people" : the centralization of Frankishness under the early Carolingians
- 11. Correctio : the redefinition of central Frankishness
- 12. Before and after 800 : central and local Frankishness in the Carolingian world
- 13. Before and after 829 : the transformation of Frankish identity from the short to the long history of the Royal Frankish Annals
- Conclusion: Frankish identity, Western ethnicity.
