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The social structure
There is evidence that after the conquest of Dacia , and up to 376 , the Visigoths had a social structure dual partly parallel horizontally speaking, as in ancient times , partly interlaced verticalmente.de according to a design still in effect until the 376 the fall of Thervingios lived in a " tribal confederation " and were grouped into " tribes " . Indeed , the notion of "tribe " ( þiuda ) has always expressed a political unit , although , initially , also implies an awareness of a common ancestor , and the III - IV centuries , has come to mean the whole community Tervingia or Visigoth people . Instead of " tribes " and " tribal chiefs " , there was a central source of energy ( thiudanassus ) , led by a single thiudans . In translating Wulfila , the equivalent of the Greek " basileus " is thiudans and certainly not in the sense of a " chief tribal confederation . "
In the days of the third and fourth centuries , the Visigoths were divided into " families " and clans ( kunja ) and recorded in accordance with this division , each clan occupies an independent territory ( garvi ) . At that time , the various clans ( as evidenced by his appointment Latina) hypothetically existed before the reality that originally distinct , which is reflected in the fact that the clan ( Kuni ) was not led by a " Kuning " - a term that denotes the leader of a community of kin not appear - but by kindins ( ie , dux , Archon , and applied by the Goths Roman proconsul ) , indicating a relative senior .. In the third century , military campaigns were conducted by kindins . The " clans " , which actually alluded to territorial units ( garvi ) , which consists of the union of large families associated ( sibja ) ... A century later , not only some of the last represented by their blood relations in communities or armed groups were ( siponjos ) ; Primarily , the term " communities " ( garvi ) designated settlements , endowed with stratified social structure .
However, it is impossible to live outside the sibja ; unsibja is a word obtained by adding a private prefix means " marginal " or " no gods " ... So osibja was a political unity , economic and strong religious and social unity was imposed , even those that were not related to him by blood ... In general , each village ( Haims ) was occupied by a single sibja . Its members , residents , belonged to patriarchal families ( fadreins ) , large wealthy families exercised joint ownership of land around the villages ( haimothlis ) . The position of foreign or "guests " ( expend ) is not clear as at the time of its introduction .
Village communities preserved ( or rather , tried to preserve ) the old institutions of the clan. Sometimes the advice ( gamainths ) , where " the elders " ( sinistans ) had played a leading role , along with other prominent residents , performed in the field dedicated to meeting market village ( garuns ) . However , in the IV century sinistans the most you could hope for was to " circumvent " the true power of the community , in other words, exercised only nominal authority .
The old core of the ancestral original institutions of tribal clans were doomed to desaparecer.Após the conquest of Dacia , the popular assembly traditional ( mathl , fauramathleins ) , which were all free men ( frijai ) of large territorial units , gradually became inoperative . After 376 , the institution underwent a rapid decline after a few years and his place was taken by " big board " ( gafaurds ) .
From the second and third centuries on, in Dacia real power was in the hands of the Visigoths . Warlords and military delegation Reiks , the term designates a military commander ( in Greek : " basilikos ' Latin: " Regulus " ) , often appears in compound names ( Al ric , ric Aria , Gebe ric , ric Munde ) as early in the third century , and also appears , somewhat vaguely , in Roman sources contemporary with the sense of ... rex Initially , the term denotes , probably the military post of leaders of large and powerful clans , in this sense, also be Reiks kindins one , and vice versa . This military title given on behalf of Athanaric / Athana - rik , the most powerful king of the Visigoths of the fourth century . He was the one who was honored by the Romans of his time with the title iudex ( judge ) , while in the fourth century Latin , the latter term has come to mean governor or viceroy , in one instance, was identified as " iudex potentissimus ' in the sense thiudans which is above all other Reiks . Athanaric was evidently the thiudans in 369 , was the only Tervingio who spoke on equal terms with the Emperor Valens . Winguric , one of the heads of the soldiers who participated in the burning of churches , the great anti - Christian campaign ordered by Alaric , was only a lieutenant and Munderic , the commander of his army of elite cavalry tervingia , drive fast action always acted in art , and was decisive when Alaric took power .
The title of Reiks survived in the names of some of the successors of Alaric , 376 remained after the union of the people Visigoth ( Ala ric I and II , I and II Theode ric , ric Amala ) , but completely missed the second half of the sixth century . In the 4th century , however , the presence of compound names of Reiks , was not necessarily a king or a warrior ; Frithareikeis ( = Fridarik ) , martyred in anti - Christian Athanaric , was , perhaps , the representative of a noble family .
The Reiks (or several Reiks together) attracted the support of the class or Optimates megistanes , and they were members of the same class. The Greek term megistanes ( = ' big and powerful men " ) corresponds perfectly with the gothic mahteigs ( =' potent , powerful, " and "aggressive " , cf.Mahts = 'power' , 'power' ) and maistans ( = ' people large ' ) . Members of this class have been landowners in the III - IV centuries . The domain of a member of this class , consisted of a mansion ( gards also indicated that owned the surrounding land ) and real estate ( aihts ) and cattle ( faihu , those who owned cattle were called " the rich " faihu habands , ) .
The owner was Lord ( frauja = Despota ) people that joined the mansion and imposed their rules with the help of private armed entourage ( andbahts = 'manager' ) . In armed detachments came Reiks each Visigoth aristocracy , who formed the Visigoth army ( harjis ) and small detachments ( Hansa ) by the fourth century , this army was composed mainly of soldiers " professionals " ( = gadrauhts miles; Drunhtinonds = warrior ) . Their main weapons were swords ( meki ) and shields ( skildus ) , but also used the armor ( brunjo ) and helmets ( hilms ) .
In territorial organizations clan IV , on the one hand , and structure of military power , on the other , were still united by many ties, kindins the Reiks thiudans and could be one and the same person ( eg , Alaric ) , although this is more the exception than the rule. But the reality was far from harmonious . One of the more latent conflicts at the time was a power struggle between the central authority and armed clans controlled by local autonomy
in the fourth century man of "free " ( friars ) in Visigothic society had become a branch estatificado . The largest classes were free peasants ( waurstwja ) and poor ( unleths ) joined them probably freed slaves ( fralets ) . The employees ( asneins = ' colheitadeiros contractors) Aigin on earth " ( communal ) , presumably came from those classes .
As for the employees , it is complex to explain its position at the time . Prisoners of war ( Bandja ) were converted into any commercial products or public slaves ( skalks ) and agricultural workers ( thewisa ) . Serfs ( thius ) and bridesmaids company ( thivi ) who worked in the house enjoyed better living conditions .
Social stratification of cemeteries is similar to the village of the martyr gothic Saba . Communities were made of 50 to 100 people , there were four or five pairs rich, the elite , who probably played a leading role in the village council . Most residents of these peasant families were common , more or less equal in position and wealth. The poor slaves ( that Saba was one) are distinguished only by their legal status , their graves are different from those of slaves , since in his burial was accompanied funeral rites . slaves were buried in the cemetery of the village - it certainly indicates a degree of patriarchy by their masters , and had no burial ceremony . Slaves when they died were buried by their fellow survivors.
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