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History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550-850 (Paperback)
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History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550-850 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as
a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of
ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish
identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historiography, it offers a
new basis for comparing the history of collective and ethnic
identity in the Christian West with other contexts, especially the
Islamic and Byzantine worlds. The tremendous political success of
the Frankish kingdoms provided the medieval West with fundamental
political, religious and social structures, including a change from
the Roman perspective on ethnicity as the quality of the 'Other' to
the Carolingian perception that a variety of Christian peoples were
chosen by God to reign over the former Roman provinces.
Interpreting identity as an open-ended process, Helmut Reimitz
explores the role of Frankish identity in the multiple efforts
through which societies tried to find order in the rapidly changing
post-Roman world.
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