Author: Paul Fouracre
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719047916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
This collection of documents brings together the seminal sources for the Late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It interprets the chronicles and saints' lives to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity and power relationships.
Late Merovingian France
Author: Paul Fouracre
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719047916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
This collection of documents brings together the seminal sources for the Late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It interprets the chronicles and saints' lives to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity and power relationships.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719047916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
This collection of documents brings together the seminal sources for the Late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It interprets the chronicles and saints' lives to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity and power relationships.
Late Merovingian France
Author: Paul Fouracre
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World
Author: Bonnie Effros
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190234180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
Examines research from a variety of fields, including archaeology, bio-archaeology, architecture, hagiographic literature, manuscripts, liturgy, visionary literature and eschalology, patristics, numismatics, and material culture, Diverse list of contributors, many whose research has never before been available in English, Provides substantial research regarding women's history in the Merovingian period, Expands research beyond Europe to include other cultures that came in contact with the Merovingians Book jacket.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190234180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
Book Description
Examines research from a variety of fields, including archaeology, bio-archaeology, architecture, hagiographic literature, manuscripts, liturgy, visionary literature and eschalology, patristics, numismatics, and material culture, Diverse list of contributors, many whose research has never before been available in English, Provides substantial research regarding women's history in the Merovingian period, Expands research beyond Europe to include other cultures that came in contact with the Merovingians Book jacket.
Before France and Germany
Author: Patrick J. Geary
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195044584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In this innovative new study, Patrick Geary rejects traditional notions of European history to present the Merovingian period (ca. 400-750) as an integral part of Late Antiquity. Drawing on current scholarship in archaeology, cultural history, historical ethnography, and other fields, the author formulates an original interpretation not only of Merovingian history but of the Romano-barbarian world from which it arose. Mapping the complex interactions of a volatile era, he carefully traces the Romanization of barbarians and the barbarization of Romans that ultimately made these populations indistinguishable. (BARNES & NOBLE).
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195044584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
In this innovative new study, Patrick Geary rejects traditional notions of European history to present the Merovingian period (ca. 400-750) as an integral part of Late Antiquity. Drawing on current scholarship in archaeology, cultural history, historical ethnography, and other fields, the author formulates an original interpretation not only of Merovingian history but of the Romano-barbarian world from which it arose. Mapping the complex interactions of a volatile era, he carefully traces the Romanization of barbarians and the barbarization of Romans that ultimately made these populations indistinguishable. (BARNES & NOBLE).
The Battle of Vouillé, 507 CE
Author: Ralph W. Mathisen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 1614510997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This volume highlights the heretofore largely neglected Battle of Vouillé in 507 CE, when the Frankish King Clovis defeated Alaric II, the King of the Visigoths. Clovis’ victory proved a crucial step in the expulsion of the Visigoths from Francia into Spain, thereby leaving Gaul largely to the Franks. It was arguably in the wake of Vouillé that Gaul became Francia, and that “France began.” The editors have united an international team of experts on Late Antiquity and the Merovingian Kingdoms to reexamine the battle from multiple as well as interdisciplinary perspectives. The contributions address questions of military strategy, geographical location, archaeological footprint, political background, religious propaganda, consequences (both in Francia and in Italy), and significance. There is a strong focus on the close reading of primary source-material, both textual and material, secular and theological.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 1614510997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This volume highlights the heretofore largely neglected Battle of Vouillé in 507 CE, when the Frankish King Clovis defeated Alaric II, the King of the Visigoths. Clovis’ victory proved a crucial step in the expulsion of the Visigoths from Francia into Spain, thereby leaving Gaul largely to the Franks. It was arguably in the wake of Vouillé that Gaul became Francia, and that “France began.” The editors have united an international team of experts on Late Antiquity and the Merovingian Kingdoms to reexamine the battle from multiple as well as interdisciplinary perspectives. The contributions address questions of military strategy, geographical location, archaeological footprint, political background, religious propaganda, consequences (both in Francia and in Italy), and significance. There is a strong focus on the close reading of primary source-material, both textual and material, secular and theological.
The Resources of the Past in Early Medieval Europe
Author: Clemens Gantner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107091713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This volume examines the use of the textual resources of the past to shape cultural memory in early medieval Europe.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107091713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This volume examines the use of the textual resources of the past to shape cultural memory in early medieval Europe.
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
Author: Bonnie Effros
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520928180
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discussion of this mortuary evidence. Tracing the history of Merovingian archaeology within its cultural and intellectual context for the first time, Effros exposes biases and prejudices that have colored previous interpretations of these burial sites and assesses what contemporary archaeology can tell us about the Frankish kingdoms. Working at the intersection of history and archaeology, and drawing from anthropology and art history, Effros emphasizes in particular the effects of historical events and intellectual movements on French and German antiquarian and archaeological studies of these grave goods. Her discussion traces the evolution of concepts of nationhood, race, and culture and shows how these concepts helped shape an understanding of the past. Effros then turns to contemporary multidisciplinary methodologies and finds that we are still limited by the types of information that can be readily gleaned from physical and written sources of Merovingian graves. For example, since material evidence found in the graves of elite families and particularly elite men is more plentiful and noteworthy, mortuary goods do not speak as directly to the conditions in which women and the poor lived. The clarity and sophistication with which Effros discusses the methods and results of European archaeology is a compelling demonstration of the impact of nationalist ideologies on a single discipline and of the struggle toward the more pluralistic vision that has developed in the post-war years.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520928180
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discussion of this mortuary evidence. Tracing the history of Merovingian archaeology within its cultural and intellectual context for the first time, Effros exposes biases and prejudices that have colored previous interpretations of these burial sites and assesses what contemporary archaeology can tell us about the Frankish kingdoms. Working at the intersection of history and archaeology, and drawing from anthropology and art history, Effros emphasizes in particular the effects of historical events and intellectual movements on French and German antiquarian and archaeological studies of these grave goods. Her discussion traces the evolution of concepts of nationhood, race, and culture and shows how these concepts helped shape an understanding of the past. Effros then turns to contemporary multidisciplinary methodologies and finds that we are still limited by the types of information that can be readily gleaned from physical and written sources of Merovingian graves. For example, since material evidence found in the graves of elite families and particularly elite men is more plentiful and noteworthy, mortuary goods do not speak as directly to the conditions in which women and the poor lived. The clarity and sophistication with which Effros discusses the methods and results of European archaeology is a compelling demonstration of the impact of nationalist ideologies on a single discipline and of the struggle toward the more pluralistic vision that has developed in the post-war years.
Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul
Author: Yaniv Fox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107064597
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This book examines the political and social effects brought about by the establishment of Columbanian monasteries in seventh-century Gaul.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107064597
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This book examines the political and social effects brought about by the establishment of Columbanian monasteries in seventh-century Gaul.
From Roman to Merovingian Gaul
Author: Alexander Callander Murray
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442604131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
Book Description
Including such remarkable accounts as Attila the Hun's meeting with the Pope, Queen Balthild's life, and Gregory of Tours' vivid descriptions of what happens when daily life is enmeshed with politics, From Roman to Merovingian Gaul documents events that are both remarkable in themselves and that demonstrate what made this era of history distinct.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442604131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
Book Description
Including such remarkable accounts as Attila the Hun's meeting with the Pope, Queen Balthild's life, and Gregory of Tours' vivid descriptions of what happens when daily life is enmeshed with politics, From Roman to Merovingian Gaul documents events that are both remarkable in themselves and that demonstrate what made this era of history distinct.
East and West in the Early Middle Ages
Author: Stefan Esders
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110718715X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This interdisciplinary volume re-evaluates the interconnectedness of the Merovingian world with its Mediterranean surroundings.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110718715X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
This interdisciplinary volume re-evaluates the interconnectedness of the Merovingian world with its Mediterranean surroundings.