Description
Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglecting the Romans themselves, in part because modern scholars have viewed the concept of being Roman as one denoting primarily a cultural or legal affiliation. As this book demonstrates, however, early medieval “Romanness” also encompassed a sense of belonging to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in a more nuanced manner than has been previously acknowledged in the literature.
Chapter
Part I – From a Roman to a Gothic World in Visigothic Spain
John of Biclar’s Chronicle
Isidore of Seville’s History (up to 589)
The Third Council of Toledo
The Lives of the Fathers of Mérida
Conclusion: The Evidence Together
2. Church and State: Isidore and his Influence
Isidore’s History (post-589)
3. The Later Seventh Century
Chindaswinth, Recceswinth, and Visigothic Law
Part II – From a Roman to a Frankish World in Merovingian Gaul
The Late Roman Empire and Clovis’ Reign
Book Three: Rewriting Gregory
Book Four: Fredegar’s Original Work