Late Merovingian France

This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint's lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships. The book makes
available a range of 7th- and early 8th-century texts, five of which have never before been translated into English. It opens with a broad-ranging explanation of the historical background to the translated texts and then each source is accompanied by a full commentary and an introductory essay
exploring its authorship, language and subject matter. The sources are rich in the detail of Merovingian political life. Their subjects are the powerful in society and they reveal the successful interplay between power and sanctity, a process which came to underpin much of European culture
throughout the early Middle Ages.


Author: Paul Fouracre, Richard A. Gerberding
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 03/14/1996
Pages: 397
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.46w x 1.17d
ISBN: 9780719047916

About the Author

Paul Fouracre is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Manchester