Franks, Romans, and Countrymen
Rutger Kramer
Abstract This chapter is essentially a case study that brings together the themes of law and identity, resilience adaptation, empire, ethnicity, highlighted in 9. It zooms on various mechanisms employed to integrate semi-independent polity Aquitaine into emerging Carolingian realm—and deal with their significance sources composed retrospect. Based around “official” absorption duchy 767/8, looks at modes identification not only by Aquitanians themselves but also visible within chronicles, capitularies, hagiographical narratives as they tried make sense this region, which was rich Roman history population remained aware its Visigothic Basque roots well.
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