Medievalists.net » Barbarians http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Katherine of Alexandria: Decline of an Empire http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/27/katherine-of-alexandria-decline-of-an-empire/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/27/katherine-of-alexandria-decline-of-an-empire/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:46:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57908 According to hagiographers, (C)Katherine was a princess, the daughter of Roman governor named Constus. She was well educated, beautiful and highly intelligent. She converted to Christianity at the age of 13 or 14 and caught the eye of the Roman Emperor, Maxentius (278-318 AD).

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/27/katherine-of-alexandria-decline-of-an-empire/feed/ 0 A Created Enemy: ‘Barbarians’ in spite of Religious Conversion. Visigoths and Byzantines in 6th-Century Iberia http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/30/created-enemy-barbarians-spite-religious-conversion-visigoths-byzantines-6th-century-iberia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/30/created-enemy-barbarians-spite-religious-conversion-visigoths-byzantines-6th-century-iberia/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:05:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54524 This study approaches the concept of resistance as a tool for historical analysis during Roman Late Antiquity, especially with respect to the identity construction and the creation of physical or mental borders between Byzantines and Barbarians.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/30/created-enemy-barbarians-spite-religious-conversion-visigoths-byzantines-6th-century-iberia/feed/ 0 Christianity and the Latin tradition in early Medieval Ireland http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/christianity-latin-tradition-early-medieval-ireland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/christianity-latin-tradition-early-medieval-ireland/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:47:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52272 The Christianity which arrived in Ireland with the fifth-century missionaries was more than just a literate religion; it was very much a religion of the book.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/01/christianity-latin-tradition-early-medieval-ireland/feed/ 0 ‘The Raw and The Cooked’: ways of cooking and serving food in Byzantium http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/27/raw-cooked-ways-cooking-serving-food-byzantium/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/27/raw-cooked-ways-cooking-serving-food-byzantium/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2014 11:43:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51362 Departing from ancient tradition, which associated the eating of uncooked food (ōmon) only with barbarians, raw food was widely consumed, above all in monastic communities, but also on an everyday basis in Byzantium.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/27/raw-cooked-ways-cooking-serving-food-byzantium/feed/ 0 Goths, Lombards, Romans, and Greeks: Creating Identity in Early Medieval Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/16/goths-lombards-romans-greeks-creating-identity-early-medieval-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/16/goths-lombards-romans-greeks-creating-identity-early-medieval-italy/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:26:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51152 This essay explores how two different non-Roman historians represented the past to their peoples: the Gothic historian Jordanes’ sixth-century work, the Getica, and the eighth-century Lombard historian Paul the Deacons’ History of the Lombards.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/16/goths-lombards-romans-greeks-creating-identity-early-medieval-italy/feed/ 0 Scandinavia and the Huns: an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Migration Era http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/15/scandinavia-huns-interdisciplinary-approach-migration-era/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/15/scandinavia-huns-interdisciplinary-approach-migration-era/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:42:09 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51137 The aim of this paper is to discuss the early Migration period as a particular period of ‘short term history’ and its formative impact on the Scandinavian longue duree in the first millenium.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/15/scandinavia-huns-interdisciplinary-approach-migration-era/feed/ 0 The soldier’s life: martial virtues and hegemonic masculinity in the early Byzantine Empire http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/13/soldiers-life-martial-virtues-hegemonic-masculinity-early-byzantine-empire/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/13/soldiers-life-martial-virtues-hegemonic-masculinity-early-byzantine-empire/#comments Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:42:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48950 This dissertation argues that martial virtues and images of the soldier’s life represented an essential aspect of early Byzantine masculine ideology. It contends that in many of the visual and literary sources from the fourth to the seventh centuries CE, conceptualisations of the soldier’s life and the ideal manly life were often the same.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/13/soldiers-life-martial-virtues-hegemonic-masculinity-early-byzantine-empire/feed/ 0 Merovingian Diplomacy: Practice and purpose in the sixth century http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/06/merovingian-diplomacy-practice-purpose-sixth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/06/merovingian-diplomacy-practice-purpose-sixth-century/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2014 23:17:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48818 The practise of diplomacy has not been much studied in Merovingian Gaul, although there are numerous works that deal with its political dealings with its neighbours and with the administration and culture of Gaul at this time.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/06/merovingian-diplomacy-practice-purpose-sixth-century/feed/ 0 The Acculturation of Scandinavians in England: A consideration of the burial record http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/the-acculturation-of-scandinavians-in-england-a-consideration-of-the-burial-record/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/the-acculturation-of-scandinavians-in-england-a-consideration-of-the-burial-record/#comments Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:42:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46560 he portrayal of the ‘Vikings’ as an archetypal barbarian ‘other,’ wreaking death and destruction wherever they went, was already current in the medieval period, but in England the depictions became more extreme in the centuries after the attacks.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/the-acculturation-of-scandinavians-in-england-a-consideration-of-the-burial-record/feed/ 0 Theoderic the Great vs. Boethius: Tensions in Italy in the Late 5th and Early 6th Centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/28/theoderic-the-great-vs-boethius-tensions-in-italy-in-the-late-5th-and-early-6th-centuriestheoderic-the-great-vs-boethius-tensions-in-italy-in-the-late-5th-and-early-6th-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/28/theoderic-the-great-vs-boethius-tensions-in-italy-in-the-late-5th-and-early-6th-centuriestheoderic-the-great-vs-boethius-tensions-in-italy-in-the-late-5th-and-early-6th-centuries/#comments Sat, 28 Dec 2013 11:48:19 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46110 In 524AD the Roman senator Boethius was executed for committing treason against Theoderic the Great, the ruling gothic king in Italy. Boethius was never given a trial, and the charge of treason may have been an exaggeration of what actually happened.

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