(Ebook) The Construction of Communities in the Early Middle Ages: Texts, Resources and Artifacts (Transformation of the Roman World) by Richard Corradini, Max Diesenberger, Helmut Reimitz, Walter Poh, Dick Harrison, Wolf Liebeschuetz, Gisela Ripoll, Ian N. Wood, Ann Christys, Hagith Sivan ISBN 9789004118621, 9004118624

(Ebook) The Construction of Communities in the Early Middle Ages: Texts, Resources and Artifacts (Transformation of the Roman World) by Richard Corradini, Max Diesenberger, Helmut Reimitz, Walter Poh, Dick Harrison, Wolf Liebeschuetz, Gisela Ripoll, Ian N. Wood, Ann Christys, Hagith Sivan ISBN 9789004118621, 9004118624

This volume offers a comparative study of the ways in which the new communities that developed in the course of the 'transformation of the Roman world' (4th-8th centuries) were pulled together. In understanding the political, social, religious and ethnic formations in the early medieval West as "communities under construction", the various contributions attempt an exemplary discussion of the various forms in which significance and cohesion could be achieved. Case studies include the terminology of ethnicity; population movements (evacuees and refugees); treasures in their material and symbolic aspects; early kingship, cities and ethnic survivals of the Visigoths; Merovingian identities and hairstyles; Christian communities and historiography in the Frankish kingdoms.