Strategies of distinction : : The Construction of Ethnic Communities, 300-800 / / edited by Walter Pohl with Helmut Reimitz.

• Superior document: Transformation of the Roman World Series ; v.2
• TeilnehmendeR: Pohl, Walter,; Reimitz, Helmut,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Transformation of the Roman World Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 347 pages)

Between the fourth and the eight century, a number of 'experimental' polities had to create new forms of legitimacy and organisation to overcome a Roman world based on Empire, city and tribe. In the course of time, a new world developed that relied on Christendom, kingdom and people to pul...