Regna and Gentes
Title | Regna and Gentes PDF eBook |
Author | Hans-Werner Goetz |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 720 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004125248 |
This book is the first comprehensive and comparative study of the difficult relationship between ethnic identities and political organisation in the post-Roman and early medieval kingdoms. 16 authors (historians, archaeologists and linguists) deal with ten important kingdoms of this period and with its political and legal context.
History and Identity in Early Medieval Wales
Title | History and Identity in Early Medieval Wales PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Thomas |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Book of Taliesin |
ISBN | 1843846276 |
Crucial texts from ninth- and tenth-century Wales analysed to show their key role in identify formation. WINNER OF THE FRANCIS JONES PRIZE 2022 Early medieval writers viewed the world as divided into gentes ("peoples"). These were groups that could be differentiated from each other according to certain characteristics - by the language they spoke or the territory they inhabited, for example. The same writers played a key role in deciding which characteristics were important and using these to construct ethnic identities. This book explores this process of identity construction in texts from early medieval Wales, focusing primarily on the early ninth-century Latin history of the Britons (Historia Brittonum), the biography of Alfred the Great composed by the Welsh scholar Asser in 893, and the tenth-century vernacular poem Armes Prydein Vawr ("The Great Prophecy of Britain"). It examines how these writers set about distinguishing between the Welsh and the other gentes inhabiting the island of Britain through the use of names, attention to linguistic difference, and the writing of history and origin legends. Crucially important was the identity of the Welsh as Britons, the rightful inhabitants of the entirety of Britain; its significance and durability are investigated, alongside its interaction with the emergence of an identity focused on the geographical unit of Wales.
The Symbolic Language of Royal Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877)
Title | The Symbolic Language of Royal Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877) PDF eBook |
Author | Ildar H. Garipzanov |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004166696 |
This book is not a conventional political narrative of Carolingian history shaped by narrative sources, capitularies, and charter material. It is structured, instead, by numismatic, diplomatic, liturgical, and iconographic sources and deals with political signs, images, and fixed formulas in them as interconnected elements in a symbolic language that was used in the indirect negotiation and maintenance of Carolingian authority. Building on the comprehensive analysis of royal liturgy, intitulature, iconography, and graphic signs and responding to recent interpretations of early medieval politics, this book offers a fresh view of Carolingian political culture and of corresponding roles that royal/imperial courts, larger monasteries, and human agents played there.
A Companion to the Early Middle Ages
Title | A Companion to the Early Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Pauline Stafford |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 578 |
Release | 2012-12-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1118425138 |
Drawing on 28 original essays, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of Britain and Ireland from c.500 to c.1100 to overcome artificial distinctions of modern national boundaries. A collaborative history from leading scholars, covering the key debates and issues Surveys the building blocks of political society, and considers whether there were fundamental differences across Britain and Ireland Considers potential factors for change, including the economy, Christianisation, and the Vikings
History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550-850
Title | History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550-850 PDF eBook |
Author | Helmut Reimitz |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 529 |
Release | 2015-08-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107032334 |
This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historiography, it offers a new basis for comparing the history of collective and ethnic identity in the Christian West with other contexts, especially the Islamic and Byzantine worlds. The tremendous political success of the Frankish kingdoms provided the medieval West with fundamental political, religious and social structures, including a change from the Roman perspective on ethnicity as the quality of the 'Other' to the Carolingian perception that a variety of Christian peoples were chosen by God to reign over the former Roman provinces. Interpreting identity as an open-ended process, Helmut Reimitz explores the role of Frankish identity in the multiple efforts through which societies tried to find order in the rapidly changing post-Roman world.
Regional History as Cultural Identity
Title | Regional History as Cultural Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth J. Bindas |
Publisher | Viella Libreria Editrice |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2017-10-13T00:00:00+02:00 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 8867289349 |
This book brings together scholars to reflect upon the significance and meaning of local and regional history, focusing on how these histories impact people’s cultural identity through traditions, culture, language, and politics. Scholars from all over the world analyze the process of communal identity construction ‒ the feeling of belonging to one state or nation regardless of one’s legal citizenship status ‒ by focusing on case studies from North America, South America, Africa, and Europe. By analyzing the cultural and social aspects of community formation through language, religion, symbols, politics, race, and blood ties, these papers reveal that national identity, rather than being an inborn trait, is more often a result of the presence of common elements in the daily lives of individuals.
Theories of Nationalism
Title | Theories of Nationalism PDF eBook |
Author | Umut Ozkirimli |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2017-09-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137411163 |
This widely-used and highly-acclaimed text provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to the main theoretical perspectives on nationalism. The 3rd edition has been revised and updated throughout and includes a new chapter on the practical outworking of theory in the contemporary politics of nationalism.