VISIGOTHS IN NORTHERN GAUL ACCORDING TO THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS: A STATE OF RESEARCH
Journal Title: Tractus aevorum: эволюция социокультурных и политических пространств - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
The study of burials of the early Merovingian era in such sites as Arcy-Sainte-Restitue, Chassemy, Breny, Saint-Martin-de-Fontenay, and Vicq shows that the new groups who settled in northern Gaul in the fifth and early sixth centuries can be identified primarily by female costume el-ements of heterogeneous origin. Despite their small numbers, these people certainly played an important military and social role, as evidenced by the burial of the nobility. A community inventory uncovered Alemanni, Thu-ringian, Lombard, Ostrogoth, Danube-German, Anglo-Saxon and Visigoth elements. Their appearance at the same time as the creation of the Mero-vingian kingdom is not surprising. Indeed, this fact has been well estab-lished in archaeological studies of other “barbarian” areas, in particular Burgundy, Ostrogothic Italy, and Kievan Rus‟. In these regions nascent royal (princely) power relied on foreign military groups with no connection to the local population in order to ensure loyalty to the ruler. This article focuses on a case study of the Spanish Visigoths who settled in northern Gaul.
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Michel Kazanski, Anna Mastykova, Patrick Périn
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- DOI 10.18413/2312-3044-2015-2-1-44-87
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