The Baiuvarii and Thuringi - An Ethnographic Perspective

A study of two Germanic tribes, the Baiuvarii and Thuringi, looking at their origins, development, and customs between the fifth and the eighth centuries.

List of contents

Introduction - Janine Fries-Knoblach and Heiko Steuer
The Boii, Bohemia, Bavaria - Dennis H Green
Baiovarii, Romani and Others. Language, Names and Groups south of the River Danube and in the Eastern Alps during the Early Middle Ages - Wolfgang Haubrichs
The Ancient Thuringi - Problems of Names and Family Connections - Peter Neumeister
Kinship and Marriage among the Baiuvarii and Thuringi - Giorgio Ausenda
Baiuvarii and Thuringi - Location in Space and Time and Social Relations - Heiko Steuer
Dwellings and Settlements of the Baiuvarii before Urbanisation - Janine Fries-Knoblach
Ethnic Identities as Constructions of Archaeology (?): The Case of the Thuringi - Max Martin
Signs and Symbols in Archaeological Material Finds - Claudia Theune-Vogt
The Thuringi, the Peculiarities of Their Law, and Their Legal Relations to the Gentes of Their Time - Heike Grahn-Hoek
Religion in Pre-Carolingian Thuringia and Bavaria - Ian Nicholas Wood
Did the 'Agricultural Revolution' go East with Carolingian Conquest? Some Reflections on Early Medieval Rural Economics of the Baiuvarii and Thuringi - Joachim Henning

About the author

Janine Fries-Knoblach, Heiko Steuer, John Hines

Product details

• Authors: Janine Fries-Knoblach, John Hines, Heiko Steuer
• Assisted by: Janine Fries-Knoblach (Editor), John Hines (Editor), Heiko Steuer (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2014
• EAN: 9781843839156
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-915-6
• No. of pages: 396
• Dimensions: 177 mm x 251 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 1168 g
• Series: Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology; Studies in Historical Archaeoe; Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology; Studies in Historical Archaeoe
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages