A study of two Germanic tribes, the Baiuvarii and Thuringi, looking
at their origins, development, and customs between the fifth and
the eighth centuries. The large neighbouring tribes of the
Baiuvarii and Thuringi, who lived between the Alps and the River
Elbe from the fifth to eighth centuries, are the focus of this
book. Using a variety of different sources drawn from the fieldsof
archaeology, history, linguistics and religion, the contributions
discuss how an ethnos, a gens, or a tribe, such as the Baiuvarii or
Thuringi, might appear in the written and archaeological evidence.
For the Thuringi tribal traditions started around the year 400 or
even earlier, while the Baiuvarii experienced a much later
ethnogenesis from both immigrants and a local, partly Romance
population in the mid-sixth century. The Baiuvarii and Thuringi are
studied together because of the astonishing connections between
their two settlement landscapes. In the context of the row-grave
civilisation the Thuringi belonged primarily to the eastern, the
Baiuvarii to thewestern sphere. The kingdom of the Thuringi was
assimilated into the Merovingian Empire after their defeat by the
Franks in the 530s, which also changed their burial customs to the
style of the western row-grave zone. In contrast,the Baiuvarii were
not "Frankicised" until more than a century later and their grave
customs remained more typically "Bavarian". The chapters highlight
typical features of each region and beyond: settlements,
agricultural economy, law, religion, language, names,
craftsmanship, grave goods, mobility and communication. Janine
Fries-Knoblach is a freelance archaeologist with a special interest
in the fields of settlements, agriculture and technology of
protohistoric Central Europe, and has taught at a number of German
universities; Heiko Steuer is Professor Emeritus of Prehistoric and
Protohistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Middle Ages at
Freiburg University, Germany, with a special interest in the social
and economic history of Germanic tribes in Central Europe; John
Hines is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University and is
supervising the publication of the remaining volumes inthis series.
Contributors: Giorgio Ausenda, Janine Fries-Knoblach, Heike
Grahn-Hoek, Dennis H. Green, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Joachim Henning,
Max Martin, Peter Neumeister, Heiko Steuer, Claudia Theune-Vogt,
Ian Wood.
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