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Sources Archaeology Law Codes Histories Roman Records Overall concern over whom texts written for, by and about
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Questions of Identity Ethnic Geographical/“National” Kinship Lordship
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Kinship Family/clan/tribe as primary tie on loyalty Merovingians Merovech
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Kinship Impact of family: Protection - danger of feuds - wergeld Marriage - limited rights of women Inheritance
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Lordship (Voluntary Relationship)
Swear loyalty in return for protection and plunder Permanent relationship from end 1st c. Classes: Nobles Freemen Freed-men Slaves Warrior nobility supported by others
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Justice Popular courts - assemblies of free warriors Compurgation and ordeal Assembled people as witnesses to holy rite
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Role of Government Warriors having limited influence on choice of leadership Councils of war as “pep rallies” Limited roles of government: leadership in war, restraint on feuds
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Role of Clergy Increasingly influential in civic affairs, esp. bishops: Major leader in diocese Representative of town’s patron saint Director of religious festivals: reinforcing loyalties Some bishops were married
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Nobility Warrior nobility living on estates, supported by peasantry
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Tacitus: Germania Cornelius Tacitus (c. 55-c. 117) Historian Born in S. Gaul, upper class Studied rhetoric in Rome Held various government positions
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Tacitus: Germania Various works, including: Histories Annals De Origine et Situ Germanorum (Germania)
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Lex Salica/Pactus Legis Salicae (Law of the Salian Franks)
Issued btw. 508 and 511 by Clovis (r )
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