Medievalists.net » Ethnography http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 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 The Idea of North http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/31/the-idea-of-north/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/31/the-idea-of-north/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:25:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32304 Tacitus’s two important treatises, vital as sources for our knowledge of the life of the Anglo-Saxons, represent a people who know their limits and stick to them.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/31/the-idea-of-north/feed/ 0 Conceptions of Ethnicity in Early Medieval Studies http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/08/conceptions-of-ethnicity-in-early-medieval-studies/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/08/conceptions-of-ethnicity-in-early-medieval-studies/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:34:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29124 Today's nationalist movements in many eastern European countries have rediscovered the nineteenth-century ideal of the homogeneous nation-state; it is sad to see that after so many tragedies it has brought about, some more seem to follow, and often in the name of history.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/08/conceptions-of-ethnicity-in-early-medieval-studies/feed/ 0 Homo viator et narrans judaicus – Medieval Jewish Voices in the European Narrative of the Wandering Jew http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/01/homo-viator-et-narrans-judaicus-medieval-jewish-voices-in-the-european-narrative-of-the-wandering-jew/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/01/homo-viator-et-narrans-judaicus-medieval-jewish-voices-in-the-european-narrative-of-the-wandering-jew/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:31:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=13219 Homo viator et narrans judaicus – Medieval Jewish Voices in the European Narrative of the Wandering Jew Hasan-Rokem, Galit The Nahum Goldmann Fellowship Alumni Magazine (2008) Abstract Scholarly treatments of Jewish medieval travelogues have addressed these texts fore mostly as historical and ethnographic documents. They have rarely been appreciated for the literary talent and craftsmanship […]

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