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Title

Neglected barbarians / edited by Florin Curta.

Publication

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2010]

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Additional Authors

• Curta, Florin
• International Congress on Medieval Studies (40th : 2005 : Kalamazoo, Mich.)

Description

xx, 629 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

"Although barbarians in history is a topic of perennial interest, most studies have addressed a small number of groups for which continuous narratives can be constructed, such as the Franks, Goths, and Anglo-Saxons. This volume examines groups less accessible in the literary and archaeological evidence. Scholars from thirteen countries examine the history and archaeology of groups for whom literary evidence is too scant to contribute to current theoretical debates about ethnicity. Ranging from the Baltic and northern Caucasus to Spain and North Africa and over a time period from 300 to 900, the essays address three main themes. Why is a given barbarian group neglected? How much can we know about a group and in what ways can we bring up this information? What sorts of future research are necessary to extend or fill out our understanding? Some papers treat these questions organically. Others use case studies to establish what we know and how we can ad'ance. Drawing on those separate lines of research, the conclusion proposes an alternative reading of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, viewed not from the 'centre' of the privileged but from the 'periphery' of the neglected groups. Neglected Barbarians covers a longer time span than similar studies of this kind, while its frequent use of the newest archaeological evidence has no parallel in any book so far published in any language"--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Studies in the early Middle Ages ; v. 32

Uniform Title

Studies in the early Middle Ages ; v. 32.

Subject

• To 1500
• Geschichte 300-900
• Ethnology > Europe > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Ethnohistory > Europe > Congresses
• Ethnoarchaeology > Europe > Congresses
• Antiquities
• Ethnoarchaeology
• Ethnohistory
• Ethnology
• Volk
• Mittelalter
• Barbar
• Ethnoarchäologie
• Etnohistoria > Europa > konferenser
• Etnologi > historia > Europa > före 1500 > konferenser
• Europe > Antiquities > Congresses
• Europe
• Europa

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• "This book developed out of two sessions organized for the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo (May 5-8, 2005)"--Acknowledgements.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Florin Curta -- The backcountry Balts (Aesti) and the 'northern gold' in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages / Andronė Bliujienė -- The mysterious barbarians of Mazuria : the riddle of the Olsztyn Group / Wojciech Nowakowski -- The Antes : Eastern 'brothers' of the Sclavenes? / Bartłomiej Szymon Szmoniewski -- Bosporus, the Tetraxite Goths, and the northern Caucasus Region during the second half of the fifth and the sixth centuries / Igor O. Gavritukhin and Michel Kazanski -- A Hun-Age burial with male skeleton and horse bones found in Budapest / Margit Nagy -- A fifth-century burial from Old Buda (Budapest) / Ágnes B. Tóth -- Where did all the Gepids go? A sixth- to seventh-century cemetery in Bratei (Romania) / Radu Harhoiu -- Gepids in the Balkans : a survey of the archaeological evidence / Anna Kharalambieva -- Bohemian barbarians : Bohemia in Late Antiquity / Jaroslav Jir̂ík -- The Herules : fragments of a history / Roland Steinacher -- The Justinianic Herules : from allied barbarians to Roman provincials / Alexander Sarantis -- Still waiting for the barbarians? The making of the Slavs in 'Dark-Age' Greece / Florin Curta -- Introduction / Florin Curta -- Astures, Cantabri, and Vascones : the peoples of the Spanish North during the Late and Post-Roman period / Santiago Castellanos -- Suevic coins and Suevic kings (418-456) : the Visigothic connection / Fernando López Sánchez -- Hidden tracks : on the Vandal's paths to an African Kingdom / Guido M. Berndt -- The Frexes : late Roman barbarians in the shadow of the Vandal Kingdom / Philipp von Rummel -- Afterword: Neglecting the barbarian / Peter Heather.

ISBN

• 9782503531250
• 2503531253
• 9782503539652
• 2503539653

LCCN

• 2011534809
• 9782503531250

OCLC

• ocn751750856
• 751750856
• SCSB-1665311

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library