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El diálogo entre el discurso y la realidad de la "gens Gothorvm" en los siglos V-VII
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Cabrerizo, Oriol Dinarés |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | This work’s aim is to establish a theoretical model of interpretation of what has been called the gens Gothorum throughout the 5-7 centuries AD. However, I will not only intend to review how our sources have depicted the Goths, but also how this description fits in the historical reality of these centuries. As this thesis’ title says, I will study the dialogue between discourse and reality. So long this work is concerned with the construction of Gothic identity by the Greek and Latin sources of Late Antiquity, it is worth to begin with a status quaestionis in order to establish the meaning of “Goth” and the Gothic people. For many years, scholars have been arguing about the barbarians’ identity in Late Antiquity, about the degree of their “barbarism” or “Romaness”. New and recent perspectives on barbarian identity have changed the way in which scholars approach to the study of barbarian kingdoms in 5-6 centuries, mainly through the anthropological notions of flexible group identities and the historical notion of Late Antique continuities. One can no longer understand the formation of a barbarian people and kingdom – such as the Goths – by using former statements of rigid and ethnically homogeneous Germanic communities that built up new Germanic kingdoms over a submitted and passive Roman population. Not only were barbarians and Romans cooperating, cohabitating and mutually sharing political, and social culture, but even the very definition and identity of these barbarians and their kingdoms was shaped by Christian Roman scholars and theorists. This work fits in all those new historical perspectives and explores both possibilities and limitations of these models in order to study a single gens: the gens Gothorum. Given this, in the present work I will write a comprehensive analysis of the Goths, joining theorisations and models about them and their evolution’s reality. From migrating “barbarians” rejected by proud Roman aristocrats and clergymen, to the Toledan Catholic Gothic kingdom, the dialogue between discourse and historical reality will be stated. It is not, of course, an issue that has not been previously studied by modern scholars, but I hope this work will provide an innovative perspective on topics long debated. Especially, I will intend to offer a synthesis of several historical phenomena that contribute to shape the gens Gothorum throughout the 5-7 centuries: their condition as a military group, their role as landowners, their aristocratic values and their barbarian identity. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstream/2445/146638/1/ODC_TESIS.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
