‘Roman’ identity in Late Antiquity, with special attention to Gaul

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations ix
4. List of figures xi
5. Preface and acknowledgements xiii
6. Aspects of Romanness in the early Middle Ages
7. Introduction: Early medieval Romanness – a multiple identity 3
8. Transformations of Romanness: The northern Gallic case 41
9. Compelling and intense: The Christian transformation of Romanness 59
10. The Late Antique and Byzantine Empire
11. Romans, barbarians and provincials in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus 71
12. A stone in the Capitol: Some aspects of res publica and romanitas in Augustine 91
13. Remarks on linguistic Romanness in Byzantium 111
14. Byzantine Romanness: From geopolitical to ethnic conceptions 123
15. The City of Rome
16. ‘Romanness’ and Rome in the early Middle Ages 143
17. The post-imperial Romanness of the Romans 157
18. The Roman past in the consciousness of the Roman elites in the ninth and tenth centuries 173
19. Italy and the Adriatic
20. Looking up to Rome: Romanness through the hagiography from the duchy of Spoleto 197
21. Rome and Romanness in Latin southern Italian sources, 8^th–10^th centuries 217
22. Between Rome and Constantinople: The Romanness of Byzantine southern Italy (9^th–11^th centuries) 231
23. Dalmatian Romans and their Adriatic friends: Some further remarks 241
24. Gaul
25. ‘Roman’ identity in Late Antiquity, with special attention to Gaul 255
26. Roman barbarians in the Burgundian province 275
27. Histories of Romanness in the Merovingian kingdoms 289
28. Romanness in Merovingian hagiography: A case study in class and political culture 309
29. Roman law as an identity marker in post-Roman Gaul (5^th‒9^th centuries) 325
30. From subordination to integration: Romans in Frankish law 345
31. The Iberian Peninsula
32. Goths and Romans in Visigothic Hispania 371
33. ‘Made by the ancients’: Romanness in al-Andalus 379
34. Northern peripheries: Britain and Noricum
35. Walchen, Vlachs and Welsh: A Germanic ethnonym and its many uses 395
36. Four communities of pot and glass recyclers in early post-Roman Britain 403
37. Romanness at the fringes of the Frankish Empire: The strange case of Bavaria 419
38. From Roman provinces to Islamic lands
39. When not in Rome, still do as the Romans do? Africa from 146 BCE to the 7^th century 439
40. Romanness in the Syriac East 457
41. Bibliography 481
42. Index 573