The Construction of Communities in the Early Middle Ages ― Texts, Resources and Artifacts

This volume provides a complex discussion of the variety of social efforts which were undertaken to create meaningful communities in the process of the formation of the early medieval gentes and kingdoms in the post-Roman west.

Richard Corradini, Ph.D. (2000), University of Vienna, is Researcher at the Medieval History Research Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and works on Frankish historiography and late antique and early medieval computus and perceptions of time. His publications include Zeit und Text. Studien zum tempus-Begriff des Augustinus (1997), Die Wiener Handschrift Cvp 430*. Ein Beitrag zur Historiographie in Fulda im fruhen 9. Jahrhundert (2000).Max Diesenberger, Ph.D. (2001), University of Vienna, is Researcher at the Medieval History Research Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He works on early medieval hagiography and manuscript transmission, on perceptions of nature and on ideas of sacrality.Helmut Reimitz, Ph.D. (1999), University of Vienna, is Researcher at the Medieval History Research Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Vienna. He works on the manuscript transmission of early medieval historiography and on concepts of identity in the Frankish world.