How were identities created in the early Middle Ages and when did they matter? This book
explores different types of sources to understand the ways in which they contributed to …

Within the first few centuries after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the majority of
those westerners once considered Romans adopted the identities of their barbarian rulers …

Recent research in late antique and early medieval history has paid much attention to
'Ethnogenesis'. The historical model associated with this term explains the change from the …

The structures of the late ancient Visigothic kingdom of Iberia were rooted in those of Roman
Hispania, Santiago Castellanos argues, but Catholic bishops subsequently produced a …

This contribution concentrates on the origin narratives of the post-Roman peoples and
kingdoms in Latin Europe between c. 500 and 1000, including some observations on the …

Abstract The early Middle Ages often defies easy categorization, positioned between
empires and conceived of as between historical epochs, and is thus often at the margin of …

TWO NOTEWORTHY HISTORICAL CONTROVERSIES have proceeded in parallel fashion
since the early 1980s without the protagonists in either debate being aware of the other. One …

There has been heightened interest and prolific publication by missiologists about
contextualization since the term was first coined in 1972. There has been ongoing debate …

The death of the powerful Frankish king Theudebert I (r. 533–47) gave rise to a diplomatic
imbroglio between the courts of the eastern emperor Justinian, who condemned the late …

A feature of neo-conservative critiques during the course of this century, concerning public
issues such as immigration and multicultural policy and Islamic terrorism, has been the use …