Kazanski M., López Quiroga J., Périn P., Le costume féminin « princier » de tradition germanique orientale à l’ époque des Grandes Migrations en Espagne et en Gaule du Sud et ses réminiscences dans le royaume hispano-wisigothique. By Michel M . Kazanski

https://www.academia.edu/38442243/Kazanski_M_L%C3%B3pez_Quiroga_J_P%C3%A9rin_P_Le_costume_f%C3%A9minin_princier_de_tradition_germanique_orientale_%C3%A0_l_%C3%A9poque_des_Grandes_Migrations_en_Espagne_et_en_Gaule_du_Sud_et_ses_r%C3%A9miniscences_dans_le_royaume_hispano_wisigothique?nav_from=e3f1bb35-6769-43ae-a82c-56a1274810c4 The aim of this article is: on the one hand, to examine the state of research on the archaeological traces of the "princely costume" of the eastern Germanic or "ponto-Danubian" tradition at two fibulae of sheet metal from the first half and the middle of the 5th century on the territory of the Visigoth kingdom; on the other hand, to identify its repercussions in the "Hispano-Visigoth" costume of the so-called "middle class", with silver-plated fibulae of the second half of the 5th and the first half of the 6th century. We examined here the "princely" discoveries of the first half and the middle of the 5th century in Southern Gaul and Spain, as well as the most visible reminiscences of the "princely" eastern Germanic costume in the necropolis of the Hispano-Visigoth kingdom First of the middle 5th century and the first half of the 6th century. The female tombs of the Hispano-Visigoth kingdom containing fibulae in silver plate correspond to the notion so-called as "middle class". The question of the ethnicity of the porters of this costume is in this case totally relevant. Women's costumes, as an ethnographic index of traditional societies, are among the most stable. However, at the high social level, the costume resulting from an ethnographic tradition can also become an indication of belonging to the "ruling class". In this case, the costume of prestige, whatever its origins, sooner or later begins to be imitated by the "ordinary" population. The village communities of Visigoth Spain were predominantly Roman, then it can be concluded that the diffusion in this milieu of the "Barbarian" ponto-Danubian fashion shows the beginning of the fusion of the material culture of the Visigoths and Hispano-Romans. Identity is then used "at convenience", according to the socio-political context, both by the elites and by a large part of the Hispano-Roman population, to show their belonging to a specific social status and/or as a symbol of prestige and power. ...