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By Hans-Werner Goetz;J??rg Jarnut;Walter Pohl

ISBN-10: 9004125248

ISBN-13: 9789004125247

An exam of the connection among gens and regnum by way of systematically evaluating the ''Germanic'' and non-Germanic successor states of the Roman Empire. this query ends up in key effects concerning the function of ethnic procedures and political advancements within the formation of the hot kingdoms.

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52,3; 57,1; 59,6 on terra Salica (above, note 26) is a “C” gloss, while 63,1 is from Herold’s ghost “B” text. See also the next note. Frank) is being marked out from those barbarians previously settled on Roman soil. 36 The upshot is that anyone not already laying claim to Frankish ethnicity would find that his (or her) legal position became up to twice as secure if they proceeded to do so. It does not in the end seem likely that the brilliant young southerners at the courts of Chlothar II and Dagobert I, like Desiderius of Cahors or Eligius of Limoges, were convivae regis, equivalent and so subordinated to Franks of the king’s trust.

The so-called “Shorter Prologue”, clearly primary even though it is accompanied by the “Longer Prologue” on all but one of its appearances, may date to the 590s, but it does not need to be any earlier than the Liber Historiae Francorum of 727, which quotes and amplifies it. As the clearest “ethnic” statement to be found in any early Germanic legislation, it deserves quotation: It has been accepted and agreed among the Franks and their leaders [proceribus] that for the sake of keeping peace among themselves, all intensified dispute [incrementa rixarum] should be curtailed, so that just as they stand out among their neighbours for the strength of their arm, so they may also excel them in authority of law, and thus put an end to criminal behaviour [sumerent criminalis actio terminum] [.

600 solidi [. ] But if a Roman man, a guest of the king [Romanus homo, conviva regis] should have been killed, let him be liable for [. ] 300 solidi. But if a Roman man, a landholder [Romanus homo, possessor] should have been killed, let him who is proved to have killed him be liable for [. ] 100 solidi. If anyone kill a Roman tributary [tributarium] [. ] let him be liable for [. ] sixty-two and a half solidi. 33 The first thing these clauses make clear is that a Frank, whatever else he or she was, was not a Roman.

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