Shifting Ethnic Identities in Spain and Gaul, 500-700: From Romans to Goths and Franks

Authors

Erica Buchberger, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglecting the Romans themselves, in part because modern scholars have viewed the concept of being Roman as one denoting primarily a cultural or legal affiliation. As this book demonstrates, however, early medieval 'Romanness' also encompassed a sense of belonging to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in a more nuanced manner than has been previously acknowledged in the literature.

Comments

Copyright 2017. eISBN: 978-90-485-2744-1 Published by: Amsterdam University Press

Recommended Citation

Buchberger, E. (2017). Shifting Ethnic Identities in Spain and Gaul, 500–700: From Romans to Goths and Franks. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048527441

Publication Title

Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia

DOI

10.1017/9789048527441