Language and History in the Early Germanic World

AvD. H. Green

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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This book offers a distinctive and accessible approach to the earliest encounters of the Germanic tribes of Northern Europe with classical antiquity and with early Christianity. It brings together linguistic evidence from across Europe and dating from before Caesar to about 900 AD, to shed light on important aspects of Germanic culture. It shows how semantics and loanword studies, often avoided by non-specialists, can provide important clues for historians and archaeologists of the period. Likewise, it demonstrates that philologists and linguists ignore historical evidence at their peril.

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Utgivningsdatum:2000-08-28
Mått:152 x 228 x 26 mm
Vikt:615 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:464
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521794237

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'This is a book like no other. The author of that classic work, The Carolingian Lord, who demonstrated the wealth of new historical evidence and insights which semantic study of the Germanic lexicon can deliver, has struck again! He now offers a general but well referenced introduction to this field for those students of late Antiquity and the earlier Middle Ages who are interested in the interface of a Roman and Christian Europe with the civilisation of its Germanic neighbours. For the cultural historian, Language and History in the Early Germanic World will be an essential companion and guide for many years to come.' David N. Dumville, University of Cambridge

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; Part I. The Germanic World: 1. Religion; 2. Law; 3. Kinship; 4. Warfare; 5. People and army; 6. Lordship; 7. Kingship; Part II. Contact with the Non-Germanic World: 8. Contact with the Celts; 9. The migration of the Goths; 10. Germanic loanwords in Latin; 11. Latin loanwords in Germanic; 12. Trade and warfare with the Romans; 13. Names of the days of the week; 14. The vocabulary of writing; Part III. Contact with Christianity: 15. Problems of Christianisation; 16. The influence of provincial Roman Christianity; 17. The influence of Gothic; 18. The influence of the Merovingian Franks; 19. The influence of the Anglo-Saxons; 20. Contrasts in Christian vocabulary; 21. The vocabulary of ethics and fate; Bibliography; Index of words.