History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550–850
Helmut Reimitz
This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of distinct Western conception ethnicity. Focusing on turbulent and varied history in Merovingian Carolingian historiography, it offers new basis for comparing collective ethnic Christian West with other contexts, especially Islamic Byzantine worlds. The tremendous political success kingdoms provided fundamental political, religious social structures, including change from Roman perspective ethnicity quality &amp;apos;Other&amp;apos; to perception that variety peoples were chosen by God reign over former provinces. Interpreting an open ended process, Helmut Reimitz role multiple efforts through which societies tried find order rapidly changing post-Roman world.
Library Union Catalog of Bavaria, Berlin and Brandenburg (B3Kat Repository)