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Interrogating the 'Germanic' : a category and its use in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
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- Creator
- edited by Matthias Friedrich and James M. Harland
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berlin : De Gruyter, [2021]
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- vi, 270 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9783110699760, 3110699761
- OCLC
- on1226678803
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- List of Contributors -- Introduction : The 'Germanic' and its Discontents / James M. Harland and Matthias Friedrich -- The Marriage of Philology and Race : Constructing the 'Germanic' / Michael Kulikowski -- Rome and Its Created Northerners / Roland Steinacher -- Re-inventing the 'Germanic' in the Early Modern Era : Omnes Germani sunt, contra fabulas quorundam / Stefan Donecker -- The Balloon that Wouldn't Burst : A Genealogy of 'Germanic' / Cǎtǎlin Țǎranu -- What Can Cultural Anthropology Do for Medievalists? A Methodological Discussion of Ethnicity Applied to Late Antique and Early Medieval History / Otávio Luiz Vieira Pinto -- From Rhetoric to Dialectic : The Becoming 'Germanic' of Visigothic (Legal-)Literature, and (Postulating) the End of a 'Truth' / Michael J. Kelly -- Sidonius Apollinaris's Use of the Term Barbarus : An Introduction / Veronika Egetenmeyr -- A Habitus Barbarus in Sub-Roman Britain? / James M. Harland -- A Farewell to Arms : Germanic Identity in Fifth-Century Britain / Steve Walker -- Germanic or Slavic? Reconstructing the Transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages in East Central Europe / Sebastian Brather -- Linguistic Labels and Ethnic Identity / Ludwig Rübekeil -- (Proto-)Germanic Alliterative Verse : Linguistic Limits on a Cultural Phenomenon / Nelson Goering -- The Limits of Obligation and Friendship : Hrothgar, Beowulf, and the 'Germanic' Ideal / Erin Sebo -- Index