Barbarian Europe
| Titel: | Barbarian Europe / Karol Modzelewski ; translated by Ewa Macura ; editorial work by Elena Rozbicka |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Frankfurt am Main; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Warszawa; Wien : Peter Lang Edition, [2015] |
| Umfang: | 414 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einheitssachtitel: | Barbarzynska Europa |
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| ISBN: | 3631649800 ; 9783631649800 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Einführung/Vorwort Inhaltstext |
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- Acknowledgements
- p. 7
- Introduction
- p. 9
- Chapter I
- From Written Evidence to Illiterate Communities: Narratives on the Barbarians
- p. 17
- 1
- Literary Topoi and Reality
- p. 17
- 2
- Cross-Cultural Communication as a Source Studies Problem. In Praise of Barbarian Hospitality and Decorum
- p. 26
- Chapter II
- The Laws of the Barbarians
- p. 43
- 1
- From Recited to Written Law
- p. 43
- 2
- The Law and the Song
- p. 52
- 3
- Barbarians and Romans amidst the Ruins of the Empire: The Principle of the Ethnic Separation of Laws
- p. 57
- 4
- Between Tribal Tradition and the Pressure of Civilization
- p. 75
- 5
- Foreign Script, Native Speech
- p. 82
- Chapter III
- An Individual in the Realm of a Kinship Community
- p. 101
- 1
- Revenge and Wergild
- p. 101
- 2
- Parties to Feud and to Reconciliation
- p. 109
- 3
- Collective Guilt, Collective Honor, and Collective Oath
- p. 130
- 4
- Women under Men's Authority
- p. 134
- Chapter IV
- Some above Others: Social Differences in the Tribal System
- p. 145
- 1
- Outside the Community of Law: Slaves
- p. 145
- 2
- The Laeti
- p. 156
- 3
- Social Diversification among Free Tribespeople
- p. 171
- Chapter V
- The Community of Neighbors and its Territory
- p. 215
- 1
- The Neighborly Community of the Commons
- p. 216
- 2
- The Territorial Scope of the Community
- p. 230
- Chapter VI
- The Political Dimensions of Neighborhood
- p. 237
- 1
- Centena, Pagus and Go
- p. 241
- 2
- Kopa and Opole
- p. 272
- Chapter VII
- The Institutions of the Tribal Community
- p. 285
- 1
- Segmentary Structures
- p. 285
- 2
- The Assembly and Cult
- p. 293
- 3
- The King
- p. 330
- Epilogue: The End of the World of the Barbarians
- p. 349
- List of Abbreviations
- p. 379
- Primary Sources and their Abbreviations
- p. 381
- Secondary Sources
- p. 387
- Author's Note Regarding the Translations of the Primary Sources
- p. 407
- Index of Names
- p. 409
