Language and history in the early Germanic world
This book uses linguistic evidence to provide a distinctive and accessible approach to the culture of the Germanic tribes during the Roman empire and its aftermath. It argues that attention to language can shed light on problems in history, and also that linguists must take historical evidence seriously.
Print Book, English, 1998
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1998
History
xiii, 438 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
9780521471343, 9780521794237, 0521471346, 0521794234
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pt. I. The Germanic World. 1. Religion. 2. Law. 3. Kinship. 4. Warfare. 5. People and army. 6. Lordship. 7. Kingship
pt. II. Contact with the Non-Germanic World. 8. Contact with the Celts. 9. The migration of the Goths. 10. Germanic loanwords in Latin. 11. Latin loanwords in Germanic. 12. Trade and warfare with the Romans. 13. Names of days of the week. 14. The vocabulary of writing
pt. III. Contact with Christianity. 15. Problems of Christianisation. 16. The influence of provincial Roman Christianity. 17. The influence of Gothic. 18. The influence of the Merovingian Franks. 19. The influence of the Anglo-Saxons. 20. Contrasts in Christian vocabulary. 21. The vocabulary of ethics and fate
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