ABOUT THIS BOOK
Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglecting the Romans themselves, in part because modern scholars have viewed the concept of being Roman as one denoting primarily a cultural or legal affiliation. As this book demonstrates, however, early medieval 'Romanness' also encompassed a sense of belonging to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in a more nuanced manner than has been previously acknowledged in the literature.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Erica Buchberger is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart One: From a Roman to a Gothic World in Visigothic SpainChapter One: Arians to CatholicsChapter Two: Church and State: Isidore and his InfluenceChapter Three: The Later Seventh CenturyPart Two: From a Roman to a Frankish World in Merovingian GaulChapter Four: Gregory of ToursChapter Five: Venantius FortunatusChapter Six: FredegarChapter Seven: Frankish HagiographyConclusionBibliographyIndex