Description
| Summary: | This volume offers a comparative study of the ways in which the new communities that developed in the course of the 'transformation of the Roman world' (4th-8th centuries) were pulled together. In understanding the political, social, religious and ethnic formations in the early medieval West as "communities under construction", the various contributions attempt an exemplary discussion of the various forms in which significance and cohesion could be achieved. Case studies include the terminology of ethnicity; population movements (evacuees and refugees); treasures in their material and symbolic aspects; early kingship, cities and ethnic survivals of the Visigoths; Merovingian identities and hairstyles; Christian communities and historiography in the Frankish kingdoms.
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| Item Description: | "This volume is a result of the European Science Foundation programme 'The Transformation of the Roman World'"--Page vii |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 417 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, facsimiles |
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| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-396) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9004118624
9789004118621
1429407042
9781429407045
1280914599
9781280914591
9786610914593
6610914591
9047404068
9789047404064 |
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| ISSN: | 1386-4165 ; |
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| Language: | English. |
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| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
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| Action Note: | digitized |
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