Dennis Howard Green, D. H. Green

Language and History in the Early Germanic World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents linguistic evidence for many aspects of pre-Christian and early medieval European culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780521794237
• ISBN-10: 0521794234
• Artikelnr.: 21940653

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The Germanic World: 1. Religion
2. Law
3. Kinship
4. Warfare
5. People and army
6. Lordship
7. Kingship
Part 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 the days of the week
14. The vocabulary of writing
Part 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
Bibliography
Index of words.