Civitas in Early Medieval Central Europe—Stronghold or District
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12319956 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sébastien Rossignol (Université de Montréal, Wilfred Laurier University and German Historical Institute in Warsaw, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-99 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Medieval History Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0971-9458 • E-ISSN: 0973-0753 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/097194581001400104 |
| OpenAlex | W2115557084 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
Several generations of historians and archaeologists have debated the meaning of the word civitas used in Frankish sources in the 9th and 10th centuries. This argument principally involves a short geographical tract whose anonymous author is known as the so-called ‘Bavarian Geographer’. The 9th-century civitas has been interpreted as designating either a stronghold or, according to the definition in classical Latin, a district. Although the former meaning now seems to have gained popularity in recent scholarship, the latter has still not disappeared and, most importantly, the reasons underlying the adoption of either of these definitions have remained unclear. In this article, the evidence in Frankish written documents is systematically analysed and it is concluded that the so-called ‘Bavarian Geographer’ certainly used the word civitas with the meaning of stronghold, which was common in his time and place, and not with the meaning of district
Argument (complex analysis · Art · Cartography · Epistemology · Geographer · Geography · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Political science · Popularity · Scholarship · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |