Gerda Heydemann et Helmut Reimitz (éd.), Historiography and Identity II: Post-Roman Multiplicity and New Political Identities, Turnhout, 2020.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, vol. 27
VIII + 356 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-58470-6
€ 95 (excl. tax)

Explores the social function of historiography in the Justinianic age and the post-Roman kingdoms of the West.
The six-volume sub-series Historiography and Identity unites a wide variety of case studies from Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages, from the Latin West to the emerging polities in Northern and Eastern Europe, and also incorporates a Eurasian perspective which includes the Islamic World and China. The series aims to develop a critical methodology that harnesses the potential of identity studies to enhance our understanding of the construction and impact of historiography.

This second volume of the series studies the social function of historiography in the Justinianic age and the post-Roman kingdoms of the West. The papers explore how writers in Constantinople and in the various kingdoms from Italy to Britain adopted late antique historiographical traditions and adapted them in response to the new needs and challenges created by the transformation of the political and social order. What was the significance of their choices between different models (or their creation of new ones) for their ‘vision of community'? The volume provides a representative analysis of the historiographical resources of ethnic, political, and religious identifications created in the various Western kingdoms. In doing so, it seeks to understand the extant works as part of a once much wider and more polyphonic historiographical debate.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Helmut Reimitz, Historiography and Identity in the Late Antique and Early Medieval West: An Introduction

Walter Pohl, Debating Ethnicity in Post-Roman Historiography

Maya Maskarinec, Clinging to Empire in Jordanes' Romana

Randolph Ford, From Scythian, to Getan, to Goth: The Getica of Jordanes and the Classical Ethnographic Tradition

Philipp Dörler, Two Tales – Two Peoples? Goths and Romans in Jordanes' Works

Thomas Charles-Edwards, Celtic Britain and Ireland: An Arena for Historical Debate

Helmut Reimitz, Genre and Identity in Merovingian Historiography

Andreas Fischer, The Appropriation of History: The Austrasians, Gregory of Tours, and Fredegar

Jamie Wood & Victoria Leonard, History-Writing and Education in Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia

Molly Lester, The Ties that Bind: Diagnosing Social Crisis in Julian of Toledo's Historia Wambae

Ian Wood, Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and Anglian Northumbria

Walter Pohl, Historical Writing in the Lombard Kingdom: from Secundus to Paul the Deacon

Index

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