Barbarian Europe

Titel: Barbarian Europe
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Veröffentlicht: Bern : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2015
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (414 p.)
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9783631649800 ; 9783653041279 ; 9783653985320 ; 9783653985337
  • 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