tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post3560984957374440181..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: RaceCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-410502524090587852011-06-08T06:31:41.086-04:002011-06-08T06:31:41.086-04:00I would urge the reading of some of the counter-et...I would urge the reading of some of the counter-ethnic work in the field, like Guy Halsall's <i>The Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568</i>, before you worked that too deeply into the piece, myself. You could get an idea of where it goes from <a href="http://600transformer.blogspot.com/2011/05/archaeology-and-migration-rethinking.html" rel="nofollow">this lecture</a> posted on his blog. Indeed, you may find its explicit political engagement an interesting case of how we are now thinking about such matters and how far away we are from our sources sometimes when so doing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-64922248511620043132011-06-01T19:09:47.170-04:002011-06-01T19:09:47.170-04:00Just a tiny toe-nail note to your great article: I...Just a tiny toe-nail note to your great article: Isidore of Seville combines racial (<i>in corpore</i>) and ethnic (cultural) <i>insignia</i> under his concept of <i>gens,</i> for example: <br /><br /><i>Nonnullae etiam gentes non solum in vestibus sed et in corpore aliqua sibi propria quasi insignia vindicant: ut videmus cirros Germanorum, granos et cinnibar Gotorum, stigmata Brittonum.</i> (Isidore, <i>Et.</i> 9, 2, 97).<br /><br />Unlike Tacitus, Isidore had some first-hand experience of *Germans*, at least the Visigothic ones, which seems to have convinced him that they all had reddish-brown curly hair, (exactly as Germanic persons appear in the richly illustrated Stuttgart Psalter, 820-830). There is credible evidence from burial sites that the Visigoths did indeed intermarry with the local population.James Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753213254808138481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-61917054566699977962011-05-30T19:25:49.424-04:002011-05-30T19:25:49.424-04:00Typo of `quitely' for `quietly' in last se...Typo of `quitely' for `quietly' in last sentence of main text? Also, however, wow. That's heavy stuff artistically delivered. Thankyou for posting it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com