Regna and Gentes—The Relationship Between Late Antique and Early Medieval Peoples and Kingdoms in the Transformation of the Roman World

This book is the first comprehensive and comparative study of the difficult relationship between ethnic identities and political organisation in the post-Roman and early medieval kingdoms. 16 authors (historians, archaeologists and linguists) deal with ten important kingdoms of this period and with its political and legal context.

Hans-Werner Goetz, Ph.D. (1977) in Medieval History, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Habilitation 1981, is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hamburg since 1990. He has published a great number of books and articles on the Early and High Middle Ages, particularly on medieval historiography and the history of ideas and mentalities.Jorg Jarnut, Ph.D. (1970) in Medieval History, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn, Habilitation 1977, has been Professor of Medieval History at the University of Paderborn since 1983. He has published extensively on the history of the Lombards and the Franks and he is one of the founders of the Institut zur interdisziplinaren Erforschung des Mittelalters und seines Nachwirkens in Paderborn.Walter Pohl, Dr. phil. (1984) is researcher for the Austrian Academy of Arts and Sciences (Commission for Research on the Early Middle Ages) and lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Vienna. His publications include Die Awaren ( Munich, 1988).