- Between Ostrogothic and Carolingian Italy
- A cura di Fabrizio Oppedisano
The Creation of Two Ethnographic Identities: The Cases of the Ostrogoths and the Langobards
- Robert Kasperski
- © 2022 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-664-3.06
The aim of this paper is to analyse two ethnographic identities constructed for two barbarian peoples – the Ostrogoths and the Langobards. As I try to argue, the first identity was constructed to show that the Ostrogoths were a civilized people and a better version of the Romans, and moreover, this identity communicated that the Ostrogoths could not be called a barbaric and savage people. Theoderic the Great’s propagandists tried to present the Ostrogothic warriors as defenders of the Roman World. The second identity – constructed for the Langobards – presented them as a people who embodied the very antithesis of their main enemies c. 660: the Franks and the Romans. The origin of the Langobards and the genesis of their ethnic hallmark, i.e. the long beards, were presented as signs of distinction or limitic structures which communicated non-romanitas of this people.
- Keywords:
- Early Middle Ages,
- Late Antiquity,
- Ostrogoths,
- Langobards,
- Theoderic the Great,
- Origo gentis Langobardorum,
- Ethnographic Identity,
- Barbarians,
- Civilization,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - ORCID: 0000-0002-5693-0966
Informazioni sul capitolo
Titolo del capitolo
The Creation of Two Ethnographic Identities: The Cases of the Ostrogoths and the Langobards
Autori
Robert Kasperski
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-664-3.06
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
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Informazioni bibliografiche
Titolo del libro
Between Ostrogothic and Carolingian Italy
Sottotitolo del libro
Survivals, revivals, ruptures
Curatori
Fabrizio Oppedisano
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
262
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-664-3
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-663-6
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-664-3
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-666-7
Collana
Reti Medievali E-Book
ISSN della collana
2704-6362
e-ISSN della collana
2704-6079