Language and History in the Early Germanic World

Name: Language and History in the Early Germanic World
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ISBN: 9780521471343

ISBN-10: 0521471346

ISBN-13: 9780521471343

Edition: 1998

Authors: D. H. Green

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This philological study draws on archaeological and historical evidence to offer a distinctive and accessible approach to the earliest encounters of north European Germanic tribes with classical antiquity and early Christianity.

Book details

List price: $102.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/6/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English



Introduction



The Germanic World



Religion



Law



Kinship



Warfare



People and army



Lordship



Kingship



Contact with the Non-Germanic World



Contact with the Celts



The migration of the Goths



Germanic loanwords in Latin



Latin loanwords in Germanic



Trade and warfare with the Romans



Names of the days of the week



The vocabulary of writing



Contact with Christianity



Problems of Christianisation



The influence of provincial Roman Christianity



The influence of Gothic



The influence of the Merovingian Franks



The influence of the Anglo-Saxons



Contrasts in Christian vocabulary



The vocabulary of ethics and fate


Bibliography


Index of words