Etniczność w badaniach nad wczesnym średniowieczem

Abstract

Ethnicity in studies on the Early Middle Ages. The article discusses various approaches to the issue of ethnicity in the social sciences and in the medieval studies. It states that the perspective of the social actors should be privileged in research on collective identities of societies of the past. Thus, identity of the barbarian groups settled within the Roman ‘limes’ can only be investigated for the time in which those societies started to express and construct it by means of texts.