Ebook Strategies of distinction: The construction of the ethnic communities, 300-800

Ebook "Strategies of distinction: The construction of the ethnic communities, 300-800" discusses the process of construction of ethnic identities. What did names, law, language, costume, burial rites, rhetoric, culture, royal representation or ideology mean, and to whom? This is the question that is common to the papers assembled here. Even though they span several centuries, and a geographic area from the Iberian peninsula to the Black Sea steppes, they all deal with the ways how ethnic distinction became a political factor in the post-Roman world.