Research Catalog

Title

Transformations of Romanness : early medieval regions and identities / edited by Walter Pohl, Clemens Gantner, Cinzia Grifoni and Marianne Pollheimer-Mohaupt.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
• ©2018

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Additional Authors

• Pohl, Walter, 1953-
• Gantner, Clemens
• Grifoni, C.
• Pollheimer-Mohaupt, Marianne

Description

x, 586 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• "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."--
• "Few pre-modern empires had an impact on their subjects comparable to that of the Roman Empire. Over time, being Roman could mean many different things, for instance Latin speakers under barbarian rule, subjects of the Byzantine empire or Christians in post-Roman Syria. This volume explores the changes Roman identity underwent in most of the former provinces of the empire between c. 400 and c. 1000, offering the first comprehensive overview on this topic"--

Series Statement

Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. = Millennium studies in the culture and history of the first millennium C.E., 1862-1139 ; volume 71

Uniform Title

Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 71.

Alternative Title

Early medieval regions and identities

Subjects

• National characteristics, Roman
• Civilization, Medieval > Roman influences
• Civilization > Influence
• Rome > Civilization > Influence
• Rome (Empire)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-571) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Early medieval Romanness: a multiple identity / Walter Pohl -- Transformations of Romanness: the Northern Gallic case / Guy Halsall -- Compelling and intense: the Christian transformation of Romanness / Yitzhak Hen -- Romans, barbarians and provincials in the res gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus / M. Shane Bjornlie -- A stone in the capitol: some aspects of res publica and romanitas in Augustine / Richard Corradini -- Remarks on linguistic Romanness in Byzantium / Johannes Koder -- Byzantine Romanness: from geopolitical to ethnic conceptions / Ioannis Stouraitis -- "Romanness" and Rome in the early Middle Ages / Rosamond McKitterick -- The post-imperial Romanness of the Romans / Paolo Delogu -- The Roman past in the consciousness of the Roman elites in the ninth and tenth centuries / Veronica West-Harling -- Looking up to Rome: Romanness through the hagiography from the Duchy of Spoleto / Giorgia Vocino -- Rome and Romanness in Latin Southern Italian sources, 8th-10th centuries / Thomas Granier -- Between Rome and Constantinople: the Romanness of Byzantine Southern Italy (9th-11th centuries) / Annick Peters-Custot -- Dalmatian Romans and their Adriatic friends: some further remarks / Francesco Borri -- "Roman" identity in late antiquity, with special attention to Gaul / Ralph W. Mathisen -- Roman barbarians in the Burgundian province / Ian Wood -- Histories of Romanness in the Merovingian kingdoms / Helmut Reimitz -- Romanness in Merovingian hagiography: a case study in class and political culture / Jamie Kreiner -- Roman law as an identity marker in post-Roman Gaul (5th-9th centuries) / Stefan Esders -- From subordination to integration: Romans in Frankish law / Lukas Bothe -- Goths and Romans in Visigothic Hispania / Javier Arce -- "Made by the ancients": Romanness in al-Andalus / Ann Christys -- Walchen, Vlachs and Welsh: a Germanic ethnonym and its many uses / Ingrid Hartl -- Four communities of pot and glass recyclers in early post-Roman Britain / Robin Fleming -- Romanness at the fringes of the Frankish Empire: the strange case of Bavaria / Katharina Winckler -- When not in Rome, still do as the Romans do? Africa from 146 BCE to the 7th century / Roland Steinacher -- Romanness in the Syriac East / Jack Tannous.

Call Number

JFE 18-8704

ISBN

• 9783110589597
• 3110589591

LCCN

2018010135

OCLC

1023527704

Title

Transformations of Romanness : early medieval regions and identities / edited by Walter Pohl, Clemens Gantner, Cinzia Grifoni and Marianne Pollheimer-Mohaupt.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. = Millennium studies in the culture and history of the first millennium C.E., 1862-1139 ; volume 71

Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 71.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-571) and index.

Added Author

Pohl, Walter, 1953- editor.

Gantner, Clemens, editor.

Grifoni, C., editor.

Pollheimer-Mohaupt, Marianne, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Transformations of Romanness. Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2018] 9783110598384 (DLC) 2018036283

Research Call Number

JFE 18-8704