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Title Strategies of distinction : the construction of ethnic communities, 300-800 / edited by Walter Pohl with Helmut Reimitz
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998

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Description vi, 347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Series The transformation of the Roman world, 1386-4165 ; v. 2
qhe transformation of the Roman world ; v. 2
Transformation of the Roman world. 1386-4165 ; v. 2
Transformation of the Roman world ; v. 2
Contents Introduction: Strategies of distinction / Walter Pohl -- Telling the difference: Signs of ethnic identity / Walter Pohl -- Archaeology, ethnicity and the structures of identification: The example of the Avars, Carantanians and Moravians in the eighth century / Falko Daim -- Disappearing and reappearing tribes / Peter Heather -- Nomen et gens: Political and linguistic aspects of personal names between the third and the eighth century / Jorg Jarnut -- Remarks about relations between Visigoths and Hispano-Romans in the seventh century / Dietrich Claude -- Citizen status and law in the Roman Empire and the Visigothic kingdom / Wolf Liebeschuetz -- The arrival of the Visigoths in Hispania: Population problems and the process of acculturation / Gisela Ripoll Lopez -- The appropriation of Roman law in barbarian hands: "Roman-barbarian" marriage in Visigothic Gaul and Spain / Hagith Sivan -- Legal practice and ethnic identity in Lombard Italy / Brigitte Pohl-Resl
Le royaume de Vinitharius: Le recit de Jordanes et les donnees archeologiques / Michel Kazanski -- Political rhetoric and political ideology in Lombard Italy / Dick Harrison -- Royal treasures and representation in the early middle ages / Matthias Hardt -- Imperial representation or barbaric imitation? The imperial brooches (Kaiserfibeln) / Michael Schmauder -- Conclusion: Strategies of distinction / Ian Wood
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-338) and index
Subject Ethnicity -- Europe -- History.
Ethnology -- Europe -- History.
Visigoths.
SUBJECT Europe -- History -- 392-814. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045689
Author Pohl, Walter, 1953-
Reimitz, Helmut.
LC no. 97040123
ISBN 9004108467 (alk. paper)