Helmut Reimitz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5369645 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Helmut Reimitz |
| NOMBRES | Helmut |
| APELLIDO | Reimitz |
| FIRMA | REIMITZ H |
| AFILIACIONES | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7842-5445 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 9 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Origin Myths
Since the 1980s, early medieval historiography has undergone a wave of deconstruction, being credited with little credibility as historical sources. Even more, origin myths have been dismissed not only for their factual information, but also as indirect witnesses of indigenous constructions of identity. The article reopens the debate acknowledging the inspiring challenge of constructivism, but also questioning the new ontology that has spread in …
How the East Became the East
In 795 CE, the Carolingian ruler, Charlemagne, conquered the Central European territories that had been ruled by the Avar steppe people for about two centuries. Carolingian propaganda presented the conquest as a triumph over the ultimate enemies of Christendom and as a triumph that paved the way to Charlemagne’s coronation as the first medieval Western Roman emperor. However, the same ideology made it more difficult to incorporate the newly conqu…
Mutations of Diversity in the Merovingian Kingdom
Recent studies of the post-Roman West have shown a reconfiguration of the social and political structures of the Roman Empire, where local and regional elites worked together with barbarian governors and generals to establish their own »little Romes«. When Gregory, the future bishop of Tours, was growing up in the Auvergne in the 540s, these little Romes in Gaul had already become part of a common political framework: the Merovingian kingdom. It …
The Promise of History
The article explores narratives of the oath in the Histories of the post-Roman Frankish kingdom – the most enduring successor state of the Western Roman Empire – and how they reflect the increasing salience of the oath of fidelity for the constitution of legitimate political authority in that kingdom. It studies the ongoing work on the interpretation and function of the oath of fidelity from the Frankish kingdoms under the Merovingian dynasty (ca…
Historiography and Identity III: Carolingian Approaches
Historiography and Identity III
Historiography and Identity II
East and West in the Early Middle Ages
After Gundovald, before Pseudo‐Isidore
The article focuses on the mobilization and reconfiguration of Roman law in the Merovingian kingdoms. It pays particular attention to a collection of legal texts first compiled in the late sixth century, in preparation for the Second synod of Mâcon in 585. Drawing heavily on an extraordinary collection of late Roman imperial laws, the so‐called Sirmondian Constitutions, the bishops sought to declare themselves untouchably sacrosanct. A close anal…
History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550–850
This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historiography, it offers a new basis for comparing the history of collective and ethnic identity in the Christian West with other contexts, especially the Islamic and Byzantine worlds. The tremendous political …
History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550-850
Cultures in Motion
Cultures in Motion
Cultures in Motion
This book offers new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of medical knowledge between early modern China and Europe, to the fusion of Irish and African dance forms in early nineteenth-century New York, the book follows a wide array of cultural practices through the lens of mo…
Ethnogenesis
The term ethnogenesis was introduced to late Roman studies in the late 1970s by Herwig Wolfram.
The Construction of Communities in the Early Middle Ages
This volume offers a comparative study of the ways in which the new communities that developed in the course of the 'transformation of the Roman world' (4th–8th centuries) were pulled together. In understanding the political, social, religious and ethnic formations in the early medieval West as “communities under construction”, the various contributions attempt an exemplary discussion of the various forms in which significance and cohesion could …
The transformation of frontiers
The definition and notion of frontiers changed in the process of the transformation of the Roman world. This volume goes beyond topography to explore the meaning and impact of new frontiers as they were establised. It becomes clear that the transformation of frontiers was not a linear process in which the imperial frontiers were abandoned and the means of controlling them declined, but depended on specific circumstances. Four of the contributions…
Strategies of Distinction
Between the fourth and the eight century, a number of 'experimental' polities had to create new forms of legitimacy and organisation to overcome a Roman world based on Empire, city and tribe. In the course of time, a new world developed that relied on Christendom, kingdom and people to pull an increased variety of local communities together. Of these three factors, the ethnic one certainly is the most elusive. This volume discusses the process of…
Historiography and Identity II
After Gundovald, before Pseudo‐Isidore
The article focuses on the mobilization and reconfiguration of Roman law in the Merovingian kingdoms. It pays particular attention to a collection of legal texts first compiled in the late sixth century, in preparation for the Second synod of Mâcon in 585. Drawing heavily on an extraordinary collection of late Roman imperial laws, the so‐called Sirmondian Constitutions, the bishops sought to declare themselves untouchably sacrosanct. A close anal…
Strategies of Distinction
Between the fourth and the eight century, a number of 'experimental' polities had to create new forms of legitimacy and organisation to overcome a Roman world based on Empire, city and tribe. In the course of time, a new world developed that relied on Christendom, kingdom and people to pull an increased variety of local communities together. Of these three factors, the ethnic one certainly is the most elusive. This volume discusses the process of…
The transformation of frontiers
The definition and notion of frontiers changed in the process of the transformation of the Roman world. This volume goes beyond topography to explore the meaning and impact of new frontiers as they were establised. It becomes clear that the transformation of frontiers was not a linear process in which the imperial frontiers were abandoned and the means of controlling them declined, but depended on specific circumstances. Four of the contributions…
The Construction of Communities in the Early Middle Ages
This volume offers a comparative study of the ways in which the new communities that developed in the course of the 'transformation of the Roman world' (4th–8th centuries) were pulled together. In understanding the political, social, religious and ethnic formations in the early medieval West as “communities under construction”, the various contributions attempt an exemplary discussion of the various forms in which significance and cohesion could …
Ethnogenesis
The term ethnogenesis was introduced to late Roman studies in the late 1970s by Herwig Wolfram.
Cultures in Motion
Cultures in Motion
Cultures in Motion
This book offers new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late antiquity and the transit of medical knowledge between early modern China and Europe, to the fusion of Irish and African dance forms in early nineteenth-century New York, the book follows a wide array of cultural practices through the lens of mo…
History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550–850
This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historiography, it offers a new basis for comparing the history of collective and ethnic identity in the Christian West with other contexts, especially the Islamic and Byzantine worlds. The tremendous political …
History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550-850
East and West in the Early Middle Ages
After Gundovald, before Pseudo‐Isidore
The article focuses on the mobilization and reconfiguration of Roman law in the Merovingian kingdoms. It pays particular attention to a collection of legal texts first compiled in the late sixth century, in preparation for the Second synod of Mâcon in 585. Drawing heavily on an extraordinary collection of late Roman imperial laws, the so‐called Sirmondian Constitutions, the bishops sought to declare themselves untouchably sacrosanct. A close anal…
Historiography and Identity III
Historiography and Identity II
Historiography and Identity III: Carolingian Approaches
The Promise of History
The article explores narratives of the oath in the Histories of the post-Roman Frankish kingdom – the most enduring successor state of the Western Roman Empire – and how they reflect the increasing salience of the oath of fidelity for the constitution of legitimate political authority in that kingdom. It studies the ongoing work on the interpretation and function of the oath of fidelity from the Frankish kingdoms under the Merovingian dynasty (ca…
Mutations of Diversity in the Merovingian Kingdom
Recent studies of the post-Roman West have shown a reconfiguration of the social and political structures of the Roman Empire, where local and regional elites worked together with barbarian governors and generals to establish their own »little Romes«. When Gregory, the future bishop of Tours, was growing up in the Auvergne in the 540s, these little Romes in Gaul had already become part of a common political framework: the Merovingian kingdom. It …
Origin Myths
Since the 1980s, early medieval historiography has undergone a wave of deconstruction, being credited with little credibility as historical sources. Even more, origin myths have been dismissed not only for their factual information, but also as indirect witnesses of indigenous constructions of identity. The article reopens the debate acknowledging the inspiring challenge of constructivism, but also questioning the new ontology that has spread in …
How the East Became the East
In 795 CE, the Carolingian ruler, Charlemagne, conquered the Central European territories that had been ruled by the Avar steppe people for about two centuries. Carolingian propaganda presented the conquest as a triumph over the ultimate enemies of Christendom and as a triumph that paved the way to Charlemagne’s coronation as the first medieval Western Roman emperor. However, the same ideology made it more difficult to incorporate the newly conqu…
History (11 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Medieval Literature and History (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Archaeology (6 obras) · Historiography (6 obras) · Anthropology (5 obras)