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The Burgundians: the "Highlanders" of the Migration Era

Happy 2019 to all! Today we continue our journey with the peoples of the Migration Era, discussing the history of Burgundians, people of Germanic ethnicity originary of Scandinavia who settled as in the Middle Rhine at the beginning of the V century, being then defeated by the Romans and resettled in the region of the Sepaudia, in south-western Gaul, occupying important Gallo-Roman centers like Lugdunum and Vienne. The Burgundians had some influence on the political events of the last years of the Western Roman Empire and survived as an independent political entity until their defeat at the 532 battle of Autun, after which they were subjugated to Merovingian power. In the video we analyze the characteristics of the Burgundians with respect to the other peoples of the Migration Age and especially in their relations with Romans, Huns, Franks and Visigoths in Gaul. Of particular interest is the internalization in the Germanic memory of the events of the Burgundians in the Nibelungenlied, which behind the legend actually hides many historical clues about the political and military realities of the Germanic people during their Rhenis settlement. Particular attention is given to the "dual" relationship of the Burgundians with respect to the Romans and the Huns, dictated by the precarious political balance of central Europe. Space is also dedicated to Burgundian legislative production (the Lex Gundobada and the Lex Romana Burgundionum), which together with the Visigothic one represents one of the most successful Roman-German legal syntheses, and to the peaceful conversion of the Burgundians from Arianism to Catholicism of 517 as a moment not only of religious but also of politics and "national" recomposition in the face of the threat of Frankish expansionism. The video contains also some considerations on the institutional history of the Burgundian kingdom during the Merovingian, Carolingian and post-Carolingian periods.