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

Walter Pohl (Curatore)

Helmut Reimitz (Curatore)

Brill, 1998

Between the fourth and the eight century, a number of 'experimental' polities had to create new forms of legitimacy and organisation 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 an increased variety of local communities together. Of these three factors, the ethnic one certainly is the most elusive. 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 is the question that is common to the papers assembled here. Even though they span several centuries, and a geographic area from the Iberian peninsula to the Black Sea steppes, they all deal with the ways how ethnic distinction became a political factor in the post-Roman world.

Lievi imperfezioni alla sopraccoperta. / Leiden, Brill 1998,cm.16x25, pp.347, 18 illustrazioni in bianco e nero fuori testo, legatura editoriale in tutta tela, con sopraccoperta, Collana The Roman Transformation of the Roman World,2.

• Curatore: Walter Pohl, Helmut Reimitz
• Editore: Brill
• Collana: Transformation of the Roman World
• Anno: 1998
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 366 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• Peso: 708 gr.
• EAN: 9789004108462

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