Contents: 

 

Aspects of Romanness in the early Middle Ages

Walter Pohl, Introduction: Early medieval Romanness – a multiple identity

Guy Halsall, Transformations of Romanness: The northern Gallic case

Yitzhak Hen, Compelling and intense: the Christian transformation of Romanness


The Late Antique and Byzantine Empire

M. Shane Bjornlie, Romans, barbarians and provincials in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus

Richard Corradini, A stone in the Capitol: Some aspects of res publica and romanitas in Augustine

Johannes Koder, Remarks on linguistic Romanness in Byzantium

Ioannis Stouraitis, Byzantine Romanness: From geopolitical to ethnic conceptions


The City of Rome

Rosamond McKitterick, ‘Romanness’ and Rome in the early Middle Ages

Paolo Delogu, The post-imperial Romanness of the Romans

Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling, The Roman past in the consciousness of the Roman elites in the ninth and tenth centuries


Italy and the Adriatic

Giorgia Vocino, Looking up to Rome: Romanness through the hagiography from the duchy of Spoleto

Thomas Granier, Rome and Romanness in Latin southern Italian sources, 8th-10th centuries

Annick Peters-Custot, Between Rome and Constantinople: the Romanness of Byzantine southern Italy (9th-11th centuries)

Francesco Borri, Dalmatian Romans and their Adriatic friends: Some further remarks


Gaul

Ralph W. Mathisen, ‘Roman’ identity in Late Antiquity, with special attention to Gaul

Ian Wood, Roman barbarians in the Burgundian province

Helmut Reimitz, Histories of Romanness in the Merovingian kingdoms

Jamie Kreiner, Romanness in Merovingian hagiography: A case study in class and political culture

Stefan Esders, Roman law as an identity marker in post-Roman Gaul (5th‒9th centuries)

Lukas Bothe, From subordination to integration: Romans in Frankish law


The Iberian Peninsula

Javier Arce, Goths and Romans in Visigothic Hispania

Ann Christys, ‘Made by the ancients’: Romanness in al-Andalus


Northern peripheries: Britain and Noricum

Ingrid Hartl, Walchen, Vlachs and Welsh: A Germanic ethnonym and its many uses

Robin Fleming, Four communities of pot and glass recyclers in early post-Roman Britain

Katharina Winckler, Romanness at the fringes of the Frankish Empire: the strange case of Bavaria


From Roman provinces to Islamic lands

Roland Steinacher, When not in Rome, still do as the Romans do? Africa from 146 BCE to the 7th century

Jack Tannous, Romanness in the Syriac East