HIST 111 Lecture : 4 The Successor Kingdoms.docx
17 Mar 2014
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Kingdoms set up by barbarian tribes called the successor kingdoms. Religion: roman and catholic xtian being inc seen as same thing: barbarians were either pagans (polytheist) or arian christians, conflict btwn barbarians and roman subjects. Law: romans had codified law (coherent, scholarly, legal system: barbarian"s law codes weren"t written down and were based in custom, passed down orally among generations. Kinship: romans fought about descent and kinship only through the fraternal line (family defined by who father was: barbarians thought of kinship in terms of both father and mother (+blood relatives) So had more kinship and family were more numerous b/c more people were counted. Call on more people as more people included in their kin: women had significant more influence/ social status b/c of exclusive inclusion. Marriage practice: roman custom was to be married to only one woman at a time (but were allowed to keep concubines: polygyny- barbarian custom, practice of men taking multiple wives.
