Transformations of Romanness : Early Medieval Regions and Identities / ed. by Walter Pohl, Clemens Gantner, Cinzia Grifoni, Marianne Pollheimer-Mohaupt.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of figures -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Aspects of Romanness in the early Middle Ages -- Introduction: Early medieval Romanness - a multiple identity -- Transformations of Romanness: The northern Gallic case -- Compelling and intense: The Christian transformation of Romanness -- The Late Antique and Byzantine Empire -- Romans, barbarians and provincials in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus -- A stone in the Capitol: Some aspects of res publica and romanitas in Augustine -- Remarks on linguistic Romanness in Byzantium -- Byzantine Romanness: From geopolitical to ethnic conceptions -- The City of Rome -- 'Romanness' and Rome in the early Middle Ages -- The post-imperial Romanness of the Romans -- The Roman past in the consciousness of the Roman elites in the ninth and tenth centuries -- Italy and the Adriatic -- Looking up to Rome: Romanness through the hagiography from the duchy of Spoleto -- Rome and Romanness in Latin southern Italian sources, 8th-10th centuries -- Between Rome and Constantinople: The Romanness of Byzantine southern Italy (9th-11th centuries) -- Dalmatian Romans and their Adriatic friends: Some further remarks -- Gaul -- 'Roman' identity in Late Antiquity, with special attention to Gaul -- Roman barbarians in the Burgundian province -- Histories of Romanness in the Merovingian kingdoms -- Romanness in Merovingian hagiography: A case study in class and political culture -- Roman law as an identity marker in post-Roman Gaul (5th‒9th centuries) -- From subordination to integration: Romans in Frankish law -- The Iberian Peninsula -- Goths and Romans in Visigothic Hispania -- 'Made by the ancients': Romanness in al-Andalus -- Northern peripheries: Britain and Noricum -- Walchen, Vlachs and Welsh: A Germanic ethnonym and its many uses -- Four communities of pot and glass recyclers in early post-Roman Britain -- Romanness at the fringes of the Frankish Empire: The strange case of Bavaria -- From Roman provinces to Islamic lands -- When not in Rome, still do as the Romans do? Africa from 146 BCE to the 7th century -- Romanness in the Syriac East -- Bibliography -- Index

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Roman identity is one of the most interesting cases of social identity because in the course of time, it could mean so many different things: for instance, Greek-speaking subjects of the Byzantine empire, inhabitants of the city of Rome, autonomous civic or regional groups, Latin speakers under 'barbarian' rule in the West or, increasingly, representatives of the Church of Rome. Eventually, the Christian dimension of Roman identity gained ground. The shifting concepts of Romanness represent a methodological challenge for studies of ethnicity because, depending on its uses, Roman identity may be regarded as 'ethnic' in a broad sense, but under most criteria, it is not. Romanness is indeed a test case how an established and prestigious social identity can acquire many different shades of meaning, which we would class as civic, political, imperial, ethnic, cultural, legal, religious, regional or as status groups. This book offers comprehensive overviews of the meaning of Romanness in most (former) Roman provinces, complemented by a number of comparative and thematic studies. A similarly wide-ranging overview has not been available so far.

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