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Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities
Roman identity is one of the most interesting cases of social identity because in the course of time, it could mean so many different things: for instance, Greek-speaking subjects of the Byzantine empire, inhabitants of the city of Rome, autonomous civic or regional groups, Latin speakers under ‘barbarian’ rule in the West or, increasingly, representatives of the Church of Rome. Eventually, the Christian dimension of Roman identity gained ground. The shifting concepts of Romanness represent a methodological challenge for studies of ethnicity because, depending on its uses, Roman identity may be regarded as ‘ethnic’ in a broad sense, but under most criteria, it is not. Romanness is indeed a test case how an established and prestigious social identity can acquire many different shades of meaning, which we would class as civic, political, imperial, ethnic, cultural, legal, religious, regional or as status groups. This book offers comprehensive overviews of the meaning of Romanness in most (former) Roman provinces, complemented by a number of comparative and thematic studies. A similarly wide-ranging overview has not been available so far.
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Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities
Roman identity is one of the most interesting cases of social identity because in the course of time, it could mean so many different things: for instance, Greek-speaking subjects of the Byzantine empire, inhabitants of the city of Rome, autonomous civic or regional groups, Latin speakers under ‘barbarian’ rule in the West or, increasingly, representatives of the Church of Rome. Eventually, the Christian dimension of Roman identity gained ground. The shifting concepts of Romanness represent a methodological challenge for studies of ethnicity because, depending on its uses, Roman identity may be regarded as ‘ethnic’ in a broad sense, but under most criteria, it is not. Romanness is indeed a test case how an established and prestigious social identity can acquire many different shades of meaning, which we would class as civic, political, imperial, ethnic, cultural, legal, religious, regional or as status groups. This book offers comprehensive overviews of the meaning of Romanness in most (former) Roman provinces, complemented by a number of comparative and thematic studies. A similarly wide-ranging overview has not been available so far.
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Roman identity is one of the most interesting cases of social identity because in the course of time, it could mean so many different things: for instance, Greek-speaking subjects of the Byzantine empire, inhabitants of the city of Rome, autonomous civic or regional groups, Latin speakers under ‘barbarian’ rule in the West or, increasingly, representatives of the Church of Rome. Eventually, the Christian dimension of Roman identity gained ground. The shifting concepts of Romanness represent a methodological challenge for studies of ethnicity because, depending on its uses, Roman identity may be regarded as ‘ethnic’ in a broad sense, but under most criteria, it is not. Romanness is indeed a test case how an established and prestigious social identity can acquire many different shades of meaning, which we would class as civic, political, imperial, ethnic, cultural, legal, religious, regional or as status groups. This book offers comprehensive overviews of the meaning of Romanness in most (former) Roman provinces, complemented by a number of comparative and thematic studies. A similarly wide-ranging overview has not been available so far.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783110589597
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 07/09/2018
Series: Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies , #71
Pages: 597
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

W. Pohl and C. Grifoni, Universität Wien; C. Gantner and M. Pollheimer-Mohaupt, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations ix

List of figures xi

Preface and acknowledgements xiii

Aspects of Romanness in the early Middle Ages

Introduction: Early medieval Romanness - a multiple identity Walter Pohl 3

Transformations of Romanness: The northern Gallic case Guy Halsall 41

Compelling and intense: The Christian transformation of Romanness Yitzhak Hen 59

The Late Antique and Byzantine Empire

Romans, barbarians and provincials in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus M. Shane Bjornlie 71

A stone in the Capitol: Some aspects of res publico and romanitas in Augustine Richard Corradini 91

Remarks on linguistic Romanness in Byzantium Johannes Koder 111

Byzantine Romanness: From geopolitical to ethnic conceptions Ioannis Stouraitis 123

The City of Rome

'Romanness' and Rome in the early Middle Ages Rosamond McKitterick 143

The post-imperial Romanness of the Romans Paolo Delogu 157

The Roman past in the consciousness of the Roman elites in the ninth and tenth centuries Veronica West-Harling 173

Italy and the Adriatic

Looking up to Rome: Romanness through the holography from the duchy of Spoleto Glorgia Vocino 197

Rome and Romanness in Latin southern Italian sources, 8th-10th centuries Thomas Granier 217

Between Rome and Constantinople: The Romanness of Byzantine southern Italy (9th-11th centuries) Annick Peters-Custot 231

Dalmatian Romans and their Adriatic friends: Some further remarks Francesco Borri 241

Gaul

'Roman' identity in Late Antiquity, with special attention to Gaul Ralph W. Mathisen 255

Roman barbarians in the Burgundian province Ian Wood 275

Histories of Romanness in the Merovingian kingdoms Helmut Reimitz 289

Romanness in Merovingian hagiography: A case study in class and political culture Jamie Kreiner 309

Roman law as an identity marker in post-Roman Gaul (5th-9th centuries) Stefan Esders 325

From subordination to integration: Romans in Frankish law Lukas Bothe 345

The Iberian Peninsula

Goths and Romans in Visigothic Hispania Javier Arce 371

'Made by the ancients': Romanness in al-Andalus Ann Christys 379

Northern peripheries: Britain and Noricum

Walchen, Vlachs and Welsh: A Germanic ethnonym and its many uses Ingrid Hartl 395

Four communities of pot and glass recyclers in early post-Roman Britain Robin Fleming 403

Romanness at the fringes of the Frankish Empire: The strange case of Bavaria Katharina Winckler 419

From Roman provinces to Islamic lands

When not in Rome, still do as the Romans do? Africa from 146 BCE to the 7th century Roland Steinacher 439

Romanness in the Syriac East Jack Tannous 457

Bibliography 481

Index 573

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