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- Title
Eine Militärelite im merowingischen Gallien? Versuch einer Eingrenzung, Zuordnung und Definition.
- Authors
Sarti, Laury
- Abstract
Merovingian society lacked longer periods of peace such as during the Pax Romana. The military was of central importance, not only on the field. Although the militarisation of post Roman society has never seriously been in doubt, the Merovingian elite has not yet been studied more particularly in consideration of its military role. This paper analyses which military groups could be considered part of the elite and which criteria might be used to define it from a modern perspective. As the military and the secular increasingly converged, this is indeed not an easy task. The study argues that even though several groups may be categorised as being part of a military elite, this is much more difficult at less elevated levels of the upper social strata, in which the transition between the elite and the rest of the freeborn, militarily active population is fluid.
- Subjects
MEROVINGIANS; ANCIENT military history; ELITE (Social sciences); MILITARY sociology; SOCIAL stratification; SOCIAL classes -- History; ROMAN history, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.; MILITARY history; HISTORY of peace; HISTORY
- Publication
Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung MIÖEG, 2016, Vol 124, Issue 2, p271
- ISSN
0073-8484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7767/miog-2016-0201