THE MINOR <i>leges</i> PART I. PROBLEMS, BACKGROUND, <i>Lex Ribuaria, Ewa ad Amorem</i>
Thomas C. Faulkner
The starting point and central theme of the next two chapters is relationship between ethnic identity leges. view that possession leges gave a sense civilisation to gentes can be found in classical late antique histories available Carolingians. For Wormald, such link was crucial also understanding early Middle Ages: had role reinforcing feelings identity, so ‘The lex Franks more than Frankish law. It past. identity’. But ethnogenesis theorists have taught us worry about what statements might ever mean. We are constantly reminded malleable, we must aware specific political context each use terminology. production text encoded an argument, subsequently used for different arguments contexts. As Pohl put it, texts ‘can only understood properly if do not see them as evidence natural existence communities, but part strategies give shape these communities’. Ethnic always ‘constituted through social contact’, nature contact needs any investigation meaning
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