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Strategies of Distinction: The Construction of Ethnic Communities, 300-800
Walter Pohl
3.0 AVERAGE
1 review for:
Strategies of Distinction: The Construction of Ethnic Communities, 300-800
Walter Pohl
3.0 AVERAGE
readingthroughthelists's review
3.0
Volume 2 of the European Science Foundation’s The Transformation of the Roman World project, Strategies of Distinction contains several essays that were helpful for my most recent paper, as well as a few that sparked my own personal interest (and a few I found quite boring and/or hard to follow)
While the conclusions offered here--that ethnic identity is malleable and constructed, and that no clear distinction between ‘Roman’ and ‘barbarian’ really existed in Late Antiquity--are commonplace in 2020, in 1998, this research was no doubt quite groundbreaking. As such the book is helpful for examining the foundations behind more recent scholarship on ethnic identity in Late Antiquity.
Favorite essays:
“Telling the difference”--Walter Pohl
“Disappearing and reappearing tribes”--Peter Heather
“The appropriation of Roman law in barbarian hands”--Hagith Sivan
“Political rhetoric and political ideology in Lombard Italy”--Dick Harrison
3 stars.
While the conclusions offered here--that ethnic identity is malleable and constructed, and that no clear distinction between ‘Roman’ and ‘barbarian’ really existed in Late Antiquity--are commonplace in 2020, in 1998, this research was no doubt quite groundbreaking. As such the book is helpful for examining the foundations behind more recent scholarship on ethnic identity in Late Antiquity.
Favorite essays:
“Telling the difference”--Walter Pohl
“Disappearing and reappearing tribes”--Peter Heather
“The appropriation of Roman law in barbarian hands”--Hagith Sivan
“Political rhetoric and political ideology in Lombard Italy”--Dick Harrison
3 stars.