Strategies of identification: ethnicity and religion in early medieval Europe

How were identities created in the early Middle Ages and when did they matter? This book explores different types of sources to understand the ways in which they contributed to making ethnic and religious communities meaningful: historiography and hagiography, biblical exegesis and works of theology...

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Published in:Cultural encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Contributors: Pohl, Walter 1953- (Editor) ; Heydemann, Gerda (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Turnhout Brepols [2013]
In: Cultural encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Volume 13)
Series/Journal:Cultural encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Volume 13
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Europe / Ethnicity / Cultural identity / Confession / Religious identity / History 350-900
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
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Summary:How were identities created in the early Middle Ages and when did they matter? This book explores different types of sources to understand the ways in which they contributed to making ethnic and religious communities meaningful: historiography and hagiography, biblical exegesis and works of theology, sermons and letters. Thus, it sets out to widen the horizon of current debates on ethnicity and identity. The Christianization and dissolution of the Roman Empire had provoked a crisis of traditional identities and opened new spaces for identification. What were the textual resources on which new communities could rely, however precariously? Biblical models and Christian discourses could be used for a variety of aims and identifications, and the volume provides some exemplary analyses of these distinct voices. Barbarian polities developed in a rich and varied framework of textual 'strategies of identification'
Item Description:Literaturangaben
ISBN:2503533841