Europe's Barbarians AD 200-600 (häftad)
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Engelska
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360
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2009-06-25
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Longman
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231 x 155 x 20 mm
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545 g
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9780582772960

Europe's Barbarians AD 200-600

av Edward James
Häftad,  Engelska, 2009-06-25
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Edward James, an Anglo-Saxon who lives amongst Celts, here offers a sure-footed, clear and sympathetic guide to the complex world of barbarian Europe, where scholarly theories are fought over with almost as much passion as loot from the Empire."

Bryan Ward-Perkins, Trinity College, Oxford

"A lively and informative introduction to the problems of the collapse of the late Roman Empire and the creation of the medieval world."

Hugh Elton, Trent University, Canada

Barbarians is the name the Romans gave to those who lived beyond the frontiers of the Roman Empire the peoples they considered uncivilised. Most of the written sources concerning the barbarians come from the Romans too, and as such, need to be treated with caution. Only archaeology allows us to see beyond Roman prejudices and yet these records are often as difficult to interpret as historical ones.

Expertly guiding the reader through such historiographical complexities, Edward James traces the history of the barbarians from the height of Roman power through to AD 600, by which time they had settled in most parts of imperial territory in Europe. His book is the first to look at all Europes barbarians: the Picts and the Scots in the far north-west; the Franks, Goths and Slavic-speaking peoples; and relative newcomers such as the Huns and Alans from the Asiatic steppes.

How did whole barbarian peoples migrate across Europe? What were their relations with the Romans? And why did they convert to Christianity? Drawing on the latest scholarly research, this book rejects easy generalisations to provide a clear, nuanced and comprehensive account of the barbarians and the tumultuous period they lived through.

Edward James trained as both an archaeologist and historian and is now Professor of Medieval History at University College Dublin. His single-authored books include The Origins of France (1982), The Franks (1988), and Britain in the First Millennium (2001), and he has also produced two award-winning books on science fiction, the single-authored Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (1994) and The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (2003), co-edited with Farah Mendlesohn.
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Edward James trained as both an archaeologist and historian and is currently Professor of Medieval History at University College Dublin. His single-authored books include The Origins of France (1982), The Franks (1988), and Britain in the First Millennium (2001), and he has also co-edited two award-winning books on science fiction, Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (1994) and The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (2003).

Innehållsförteckning

1. Who Are the Barbarians?
Barbarians and Barbarism  
The Sources  
The Book  
2. The Barbarians before AD 376  
Classical Ethnography
The Empire and the Barbarians to 250   
The Third-Century Crisis   
The Barbarians in the Later Fourth Century  
3. The Barbarians from 376 to 476
The Gothic Threat 376-406 
From the Sack of Rome to the Fall of
Africa 407-435
The Age of Aetius 435-454 
The Ends of Empires 453 to 476  
On the Danube
4. The Barbarians after 476 
The End of the Western Empire
The Burgundians  
Britons and Franks in Northern Gaul  
The Goths in Italy
The Gothic Wars 
The Danube Region and the Balkans  
5. Ethnicity, Ethnogenesis and Identity  
The Debate 
Jordanes and the Goths  
Archaeological Approaches to Ethnicity
Some Case Studies
6. The Barbarians at Home  
Burial and Ceremonies   
Central Places   
Settlements and Fortifications 
Merchants and Exchange
Barbarian Art  
Barbarian Civilization
7. Barbarians in Roman Employment  
Slaves 
Soldiers
8. Barbarians on the Move
Numbers   
Scandinavian Origins  
Conclusions 
9. Assimilation, Acculturation and Accomodation   
Impediments to Assimilation 
The Barbarization of Romans and Vice Versa
A Christian Ideology of Assimilation   
Britain as a Case Apart?
Mechanisms of Settlement  
Archaeology and Assimilation  
10. From Paganisms to Christianities
Arian Christianity 
Ireland and Britain 
Christianizing the Barbarians 
11. Kingdoms, Kingship and Law
Law and Society  
Celts and Germans  
12. Conclusions   
Endnotes
Bibliography

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