Integration und Herrschaft

by Walter Pohl

Twenty-one papers, from a conference held in Schloss Neuwaldegg in Austria in 1998, examine the ethnic identity and social organisation of the populations of Europe, particularly central Europe, during the post-Roman period. The emphasis is on the ways in which nomadic tribes integrated with indigenous populations, filling the political vacuum left by the Romans. Contributors discuss the influence of the papacy and the church, Frankish kings, the Carolingian empire, the Ostrogoths and Visigoths, the ethnic identity of the early Slavs and their rulers, and the transformation from Roman bureaucrats to medieval warlords. Thirteen papers, including the conclusion, are in English, the rest in German.

354 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2002

About the author

Walter Pohl is an Austrian historian. His area of expertise is the history of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages.

Pohl is director of the Institut für Mittelalterforschung (Institute for Middle Ages Research) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences as well as a university professor of history of the Middle Ages and historical subsidiary sciences at the historical-culture-scientific faculty at the University of Vienna. In the year 2004 he was awarded the Wittgenstein-Preis. Since the summer 2002 he is an Austrian representative in the Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation (ESF) as well as delegates in the general assembly of the ESF.