By Hans-Werner Goetz, Jorg Jarnut, Walter Pohl
Past due Antiquity, doubtless, used to be a “time of transition or really transitions”.In spite of in depth study at the “Germanic” (or, from the Roman perspective, “barbarian”) invasions and the successor states of the Roman Empire, relatively littleattention has been paid to the “transition of peoples”, or their “developing” into kingdoms.
This quantity is intentionally not only restricted to the “Germanic” peoples (Anglo-Saxons, Bavarians, Burgundians, Franks, Langobards, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Visigoths), yet compares those with the West and East Roman culture (Byzantium and overdue old Spain) and likewise with non-Germanic peoples (such as Celts, Huns and Avars), or even with the Islamic kingdoms in early medieval Spain. It additionally appeared a good suggestion to incorporate a comparative survey of the various Germanic legislation.
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32 27 Cf. the comments of R. Collins, Early Medieval Spain. Unity in Diversity, 400–1000, New Studies in Medieval History (London 1983) p. 28, about the Byzantine “Farmer’s Law”. 28 This is therefore the point not only of the many clauses defining payment for damage, death or injury, Pactus 15–17; 23–34; 41–43 etc. (see Appendix below), but also those regulating the extent and liabilities of kindreds: ibid. 58; 60; 62. M. Wallace-Hadrill, “The Bloodfeud of the Franks”, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 41 (1958/59) pp.
30; 35; on homicide: Lib. Const. 2; 10. 17 Figures from Lib. , p. 11. 18 Isidore of Seville, Historia Gothorum, Wandalorum, Sueborum 35, ed. T. Mommsen, MGH AA 11 (Berlin 1894) p. 281; Isidore’s information perhaps came from the lost prologue of the code of Liuvigild that finally superseded Euric’s (below, notes 50 and 51). 19 In sum, the barbarian kings of Italy and southern Gaul legislated in the first instance for all their peoples, not to supersede but to supplement the law they had inherited from their imperial predecessors.
353–401, here pp. B. Ladner, “On Roman Attitudes toward Barbarians in Late Antiquity”, Viator 7 (1976) pp. 1–26. 14 Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana, ed. A. Crivellucci, Fonti per la storia d’Italia 51 (Rome 1914): cessante iam Romanae urbis imperio utiliusque aptiusque mihi videtur ab annis dominicae incarnationis supputationis lineam deducere. 15 On this see now H. Hofmann, “Roma caput mundi? Rom und Imperium Romanum in der literarischen Diskussion zwischen Spätantike und dem 9. Jahrhundert”, Roma fra oriente e occidente, Settimane di studio del centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo 49 (Spoleto 2002) pp.
