Interrogating the ‘Germanic’ : : A Category and its Use in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages /

Interrogating the ‘Germanic’ : : A Category and its Use in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages / / ed. by Matthias Friedrich, James M. Harland.

Any reader of scholarship on the ancient and early medieval world will be familiar with the term 'Germanic', which is frequently used as a linguistic category, ethnonym, or descriptive identifier for a range of forms of cultural and literary material. But is the term meaningful, useful, or...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Brather, Sebastian,
Donecker, Stefan,
Egetenmeyr, Veronika,
Friedrich, Matthias,
Goering, Nelson,
Harland, James M.,
Kelly, Michael J.,
Kulikowski, Michael,
Rübekeil, Ludwig,
Sebo, Erin,
Steinacher, Roland,
Vieira Pinto, Otávio Luiz,
Walker, Steve,
Ţăranu, Cătălin,
HerausgeberIn:
Friedrich, Matthias,
Harland, James M.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde , 123
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 270 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: The ‘Germanic’ and its Discontents
  • The Marriage of Philology and Race: Constructing the ‘Germanic’
  • Rome and Its Created Northerners
  • Re-inventing the ‘Germanic’ in the Early Modern Era: Omnes Germani sunt, contra fabulas quorundam
  • The Balloon that Wouldn’t Burst: A Genealogy of ‘Germanic’
  • What Can Cultural Anthropology Do for Medievalists? A Methodological Discussion of Ethnicity Applied to Late Antique and Early Medieval History
  • From Rhetoric to Dialectic: The Becoming ‘Germanic’ of Visigothic (Legal-)Literature, and (Postulating) the End of a ‘Truth’
  • Sidonius Apollinaris’s Use of the Term Barbarus: An Introduction
  • A Habitus Barbarus in Sub-Roman Britain?
  • A Farewell to Arms: Germanic Identity in Fifth-Century Britain
  • Germanic or Slavic? Reconstructing the Transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages in East Central Europe
  • Linguistic Labels and Ethnic Identity
  • (Proto-)Germanic Alliterative Verse: Linguistic Limits on a Cultural Phenomenon
  • The Limits of Obligation and Friendship: Hrothgar, Beowulf, and the ‘Germanic’ Ideal
  • Index

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