Regna and Gentes: The Relationship Between Late Antique and Early Medieval Peoples and Kingdoms in the Transformation of the Roman World PDF
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REGNA AND GENTES THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ROMAN WORLD a scientific programme of the european science foundation Coordinators JAVIER ARCE .EVANGELOS CHRYSOS .IAN WOOD Team Leaders Steering Committee Miquel Barceló Gunilla Åkerström-Hougen Mark Blackburn Volker Bierbrauer Gianpietro Brogiolo Niels Hannestad Alain Dierkens Przemyslaw Urban´czyk Richard Hodges Mario Mazza Marco Mostert H.H. van Regteren Altena Patrick Périn Heid Gjöstein Resi Walter Pohl L. Cracco Ruggini Frans Theuws Leslie Webster Series Editor IAN WOOD VOLUME 13 REGNA AND GENTES REGNA AND GENTES The Relationship between Late Antique and Early Medieval Peoples and Kingdoms in the Transformation of the Roman World EDITED BY HANS-WERNER GOETZ, JÖRG JARNUT AND WALTER POHL WITH THE COLLABORATION OF SÖREN KASCHKE BRILL LEIDEN•BOSTON 2003 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Regna and gentes : the relationship between late antique and early medieval peoples and kingdoms in the transformation of the Roman world / edited by Hans Werner Goetz, Jörg Jarnut and Walter Pohl ; with the collaboration of Sören Kaschke. p. cm. (The transformation of the Roman world, ISSN 1386 4165 ; v. 13) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9004125248 1. Germanic peoples History. 2. Ethnicity Europe History. 3. Ethnicity Holy Roman Empire History. 4. Europe History 392-814. 5. Europe Politics and government. I. Goetz, Hans Werner. II. Jarnut, Jörg. III. Pohl, Walter, 1953 IV. Series. GN549.G4 R44 2002 305.8'00943 dc21 2002034271 Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Regna and gentes : the relationship between late antique and early medieval peoples and kingdoms in the transformation of the Roman world / ed. by Hans-Werner Goetz ... With collab. of Sören Kaschke. – Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003 (The transformation of the Roman world ; Vol. 13) ISBN90–04–12524–8 ISSN 1386–4165 ISBN 90 04 12524 8 © Copyright 2003 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands CONTENTS List of Contributors .................................................................. vii Abbreviations .............................................................................. xi Introduction ................................................................................ 1 Hans-Werner Goetz The Empire, the gentes and the regna ...................................... 13 Evangelos Chrysos The Leges Barbarorum: law and ethnicity in the post-Roman West .................................................................. 21 Patrick Wormald Gens into regnum: the Vandals .................................................. 55 J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz Gens and regnum among the Ostrogoths .................................. 85 Peter Heather The enigmatic fifth century in Hispania: some historical problems ................................................................................ 135 Javier Arce Pro patriae gentisqve Gothorvm statv ................................................ 161 Isabel Velázquez The transformation of Hispania after 711 .............................. 219 Ann Christys Gentes, kings and kingdoms—the emergence of states. The kingdom of the Gibichungs .......................................... 243 Ian N. Wood vi The relationship between Frankish gens and regnum: a proposal based on the archaeological evidence .............. 271 Michael Schmauder Gens, kings and kingdoms: the Franks .................................... 307 Hans-Werner Goetz The Britons: from Romans to barbarians .............................. 345 Alex Woolf Anglo-Saxon gentes and regna .................................................... 381 Barbara Yorke Gens, rex and regnum of the Lombards ...................................... 409 Jörg Jarnut The Bavarians ............................................................................ 429 Matthias Hardt Avars and Avar archaeology. An introduction ...................... 463 Falko Daim A Non-Roman Empire in Central Europe: the Avars .......... 571 Walter Pohl Conclusion .................................................................................. 597 Bibliography .............................................................................. 629 Index of Peoples ........................................................................ 691 Index of Persons ........................................................................ 694 Index of Places .......................................................................... 700 Index of Subjects ...................................................................... 705 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS E C is Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Athens and Director of the Institute for Byzantine Research at the Hellenic Research Foundation. His research interests include Byzantium’s international relations in the early Middle Ages. P W is a Research Lecturer at the Faculty of Modern History, University of Oxford. He is a specialist in the law and leg- islation of post-Roman Europe, his publications including The Making of English Law, King Alfred to the Twelfth-Century, vol. 1: Legislation and its Limits (Oxford 1999), and Legal Culture in the Early Medieval West (London 1999). W L is professor emeritus, and formerly head of the Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies, at Nottingham University. His principal interests are Late Antiquity and Roman religion. His most recent books are Barbarians and Bishops (Oxford 1990), and The Decline and Fall of the Roman City (Oxford 2001). P H is Fellow in Medieval History at Worcester College, Oxford. He is a specialist in the history of the Later Roman Empire and its successor states (c. 250–600 A.D.), with a strong interest in the issues surrounding the so-called Migration Period. His publica- tions include Goths and Romans 332–489 (Oxford 1991), The Goths (Oxford 1996), and Philosophy Propaganda and Empire in the Fourth Century: Select Speeches of Themistius (Liverpool 2001). J A is Research Professor in the Higher Council of Scientifical Research (CSIC), Depart. de Historia Antigua y Arqueología at the Instituto de Historia in Madrid, Spain. He specialises in Late Roman History and Archaeology, and his recent books include: Centcelles. El monumento tardorromano. Iconografia y Arquitectura, ed. J. Arce (Roma 2000), Memoria de los antepasados. Puesta en escena y desarrollo del elogio fúnebre romano (Madrid 2000), El último siglo de la España romana (284–409 A.D.) (3rd edn., Madrid 1997) and Esperando a los bárbaros en Hispania (409–507) (forthcoming). viii I V is professor of the Latin Department in the Complutense University of Madrid. She is a specialist in Late and Medieval Latin and Epigraphy. She is Director of the Archivo Epigráfico de Hispania and the review Hispania Epigraphica of the Complutense University and Secretary of the Latin Studies Society of Spain (SELat). Recently she has published Documentos de época visigoda escritos en pizarra (siglo VI–VIII), 2 vols. (Turnhout 2000). A C specialises in the historiography of Spain in the early Islamic period and has recently published Christians in al-Andalus 711–1000 (Richmond, Surrey 2002). She works as an anaesthetist in Leeds. I W, Professor of Early Medieval History, University of Leeds, has published numerous articles on Early Medieval History. His books include The Merovingian Kingdoms 450–751 (London-New York 1994), The Missionary Life (Harlow 2001), and, together with Danuta Shanzer, Avitus of Vienne: Letters and Selected Prose (Liverpool 2002). He was a coordinator of the ESF programme on the Transformation of the Roman World. M S is curator at the Rheinische Landesmuseum in Bonn and teaches early Christian and early Medieval archaeology at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn. His research fields are late Antique, migration period and early medieval archaeol- ogy. He wrote several articles on these topics. His book Oberschichtgräber und Verwahrfunde in Südosteuropa im 4. und 5. Jahrhundert. Zum Verhältnis zwischen spätantikem Reich und barbarischer Oberschicht aufgrund der archäol- ogischen Quellen is just out. H-W G is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hamburg and president of the German Mediävistenverband. His main fields of research are the history of medieval mentality and attitudes, historiography and social history of the Early and High Middle Ages. His books include Life in the Middle Ages (London 1993), Frauen im frühen Mittelalter. Frauenbild und Frauenleben im Frankenreich (Wei- mar 1995), Moderne Mediävistik. Stand und Perspektiven der Mittelalterforschung (Darmstadt 1999), Geschichtsschreibung und Geschichtsbewußtsein im hohen Mittelalter (Berlin 1999) and Handbuch der Geschichte Europas, vol. 2: Das Frühmittelalter (500–1050) (forthcoming). ix A W is Lecturer in Early Medieval Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. He has published a number of articles relating to kingship and social transformation in early medieval Britain and Ireland. B Y is Professor of Early Medieval History at King Alfred’s College, Winchester. She specialises in Anglo-Saxon History and recent publications include Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England and Wessex in the Early Middle Ages. J J, born in 1942 in Weimar, Germany, from 1962–1967 study of history and German studies in Bonn (Germany), Caen (France) and Perugia (Italy). 1970 Dr. phil. Bonn, 1977 habilitation Bonn, 1980 professor Bonn, since 1983 professor for medieval his- tory in Paderborn. M H is Coordinator for Medieval History and Archaeol- ogy at the Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmittel-europas at Leipzig. He specialises in History of Migration Period, Early Middle Ages and History of settlement structures in Central Germany and East Central Europe. F D is Professor at the Institute for Prehistory of the University Vienna, Austria, and Director of the Vienna Institute of Archaeological Science. He specialises in Avar studies and the archaeological evi- dence for cultural exchange between Byzantium and its neighbours. His recent publications include Das awarische Gräberfeld von Leobersdorf, Niederösterreich (Wien 1987), Typen der Ethnogenese unter besonderer Berück- sichtigung der Bayern 2, ed. F. Daim and H. Friesinger (Wien 1990), Awarenforschungen, 2 vols., ed. F. Daim (Wien 1992) and Die Awaren am Rand der byzantinischen Welt. Studien zu Diplomatie, Handel und Techno- logietransfer im Frühmittelalter, ed. F. Daim (Innsbruck 2000). W P is Director of the Medieval research unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and teaches medieval history at the University of Vienna. His books include Die Awaren (München 1988; an English translation is in preparation), Die Germanen (München 2000), Werkstätte der Erinnerung—Montecassino und die langobardische Vergangenheit (Wien 2001), and Die Völkerwanderung (Stuttgart-Berlin-Köln 2002).
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