Walter Pohl (1) (1953–)
Autor(a) de The Avars: A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567–822
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Séries
Obras de Walter Pohl
Regna and Gentes: The Relationship Between Late Antique and Early Medieval Peoples and Kingdoms in the Transformation… (2002) — Editor — 17 cópias
Strategies of Distinction: The Construction of Ethnic Communities, 300-800 (1998) — Editor — 10 cópias
Post-Roman Transitions: Christian and Barbarian Identities in the Early Medieval West (Cultural Encounters in Late… (2013) — Editor — 5 cópias
Visions of community in the post-Roman world : the West, Byzantium and the Islamic world, 300-1100 (2012) — Editor — 5 cópias
Werkstätte der Erinnerung : Montecassino und die Gestaltung der langobardischen Vergangenheit (2001) 2 cópias
Strategies of Identification: Ethnicity and Religion in Early Medieval Europe (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity… (2013) — Editor — 2 cópias
Erobern - Entdecken - Erleben : im Römerland Carnuntum — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Reiternomaden in Europa - Hunnen, Awaren, Ungarn — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa (2004) — Contribuinte — 25 cópias
On Barbarian Identity: Critical Approaches to Ethnicity in the Early Middle Ages (Studies in the Early Middle Ages, 4) (2002) — Contribuinte — 12 cópias
A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (2014) — Contribuinte — 11 cópias
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750 (2018) — Contribuinte — 9 cópias
Borders, Barriers, and Ethnogenesis: Frontiers in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (2005) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
The Construction of Communities in the Early Middle Ages: Texts, Resources and Artifacts (2002) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
East and West, Modes of Communication: Proceedings of the First Plenary Conference at Merida (1999) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Motions of Late Antiquity: Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honor of Peter Brown (Cultural Encounters in… (2016) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Reiternomaden in Europa — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Pohl, Walter
- Data de nascimento
- 1953-12-27
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Austria
- Ocupação
- historian
Membros
Resenhas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 19
- Also by
- 16
- Membros
- 115
- Popularidade
- #170,830
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 48
- Idiomas
- 4
As for why the Avars so quickly evaporated once Charlemagne kicked in the door, even though his policy was to keep them as a tributary principality, Pohl suggests that they were hanging by a thread, as reforestation and disease might have been leading to a dwindling horse stock, the foundation of Avar power. This is not to mention that the answer to the question of what happens to a disgruntled Avar is that they become a Bulgarian, meaning that there was a ready home for dissidents. Reading between the lines, Pohl also gives one the thought that, for all the pretentions of the Avars to having a manifest destiny, even their contemporaries saw them as cheap knock-offs of the Huns, and not really worthy of respect; particularly since the Avar elite could not manage the trick of learning the organizational techniques that the Magyars and Bulgars did and eventually founding nations.
While not the lightest read, particularly since we mostly know of the Avars from their graves and what their enemies wrote about them, this is a very worthwhile book that provides a lot of food for thought.… (mais)