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Title The Oxford handbook of the Merovingian world / edited by Bonnie Effros and Isabel Moreira
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (1056 pages) : maps
Series Oxford handbooks online
Oxford handbooks online
Contents Merovingians and Italy (Ostrogoths and early Lombards) / Jonathan J. Arnold -- The Merovingians and Byzantium: Diplomatic, Military and Religious Issues, 500-700 / Stefan Esders -- Material Evidence for Frankish Traders, Settlers, and Circular Migrators in Early Medieval Britain / Robin Fleming -- Gender in Merovingian Gaul / Guy Halsall -- Transformations of Identities: Barbarians and Romans in the Merovingian Realm / Magali Coumert -- Letters and Communication Networks in Merovingian Gaul / Andrew Gillett -- Corporate Solidarity and its Limits within the Gallo-Frankish Episcopate / Gregory Halfond -- Merovingian Epigraphy and Epigraphy in the Merovingian World / Mark A. Handley -- The Merovingian Polity: A Network of Courts and Courtiers / Yitzhak Hen -- Merovingians and the Avars and Slavs / Matthias Hardt -- From Gaul to Francia: The Impact of the Merovingians / Paul Fouracre -- Liturgy and the Laity / Lisa Kaaren Bailey -- Public Health, Hospitals, and Charity / Peregrine Horden -- Magic and Divination in the Merovingian World / William E. Klingshirn -- Amulets and Identity in the Merovingian World / Genevra Kornbluth -- Elite Women in the Merovingian World / Edward James -- Alors commenca la France: Merovingian Expansion South of the Loire, 495-510 CE / Ralph W. Mathisen -- Maritime and River-Traders, Landing-Places and Emporia Ports in the Merovingian Period / Dries Tys -- Children's Lives and Deaths in Merovingian Gaul / Émilie Perez -- The Role of the City in Merovingian Francia / S. T. Loseby -- Merovingian Hagiography / Jamie Kreiner -- Visions and the Afterlife / Isabel Moreira -- Rural Life and Work in Northern Gaul during the Early Middle Ages / Edith Peytremann -- De gente Scottorum monachi: the Irish in Merovingian Settlement Strategy / Jean-Michel Picard -- Merovingian Legal Cultures / Alice Rio -- Good and Bad Plants in Merovingian Francia / Paolo Squatriti -- The History of Historiography in the Merovingian Period / Helmut Reimitz -- The Evidence of Numismatics: "Merovingian" Coinage and the Place of Frankish Gaul and its Cities in an "Invisible" Roman Empire / Jürgen Strothmann -- Long Distance Trade and the Rural Population of Northern Gaul / Frans Theuws -- Imagining Jesus in the Merovingian World / Lynda L. Coon -- Livestock and the Early Medieval Diet in Northern Gaul / Jean-Hervé Yvinec, Maude Barme -- The Life of Penance / Kevin Uhalde -- Writing the History of Merovingian Gaul: An Historiographical Survey / Agnès Graceffa -- Migrants and Minorities in Merovingian Gaul / Wolfram Drews -- Merovingian Gaul and the Mediterranean: Ceramics and Trade / Michel Bonifay, Dominique Pieri -- Merovingian Religious Architecture: Some New Reflections / Pascale Chevalier -- Two Centuries of Excavating Merovingian-Era Cemeteries / Bonnie Effros -- Bead and Garnet Trade between the Merovingian, Mediterranean, and Indian Worlds / Constantin Pion, Bernard Gratuze, Patrick Périn, Thomas Calligaro -- Inscribed in the Book of Life: Liturgical Commemoration in Merovingian Gaul / Els Rose -- Beyond Romans and Barbarians: Reassessing Mortuary Archaeology in Southwestern Gaul / Ralph J. Patrello -- The Military and its Role in Merovingian Society / Laury Sarti -- Pushing the Boundaries of the Merovingian World / Bonnie Effros, Isabel Moreira -- Human Remains and What They Can Tell Us About Status and Identity in the Merovingian Period / Andrea Czermak -- The Fate of Small Towns, Hilltop Settlements, and Elite Residences in Merovingian-Period Gaul / Luc Bourgeois -- The Monastic Experiment / Albrecht Diem -- Survival of the villa in Merovingian Gaul / Alexandra Chavarría Arnau
Summary The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabitants of Gaul (what now comprises France, southern Belgium, Luxembourg, Rhineland Germany and part of modern Switzerland), a mix of Gallo-Romans and Germanic arrivals under the political control of the Merovingian dynasty, sought to preserve, use, and reimagine the political, cultural, and religious power of ancient Rome while simultaneously forging the beginnings of what would become medieval European culture and identity. As a result, the Merovingian era is at the heart of historical debates about what happened to western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. In this collection of 46 essays by scholars we encounter the new perspectives and scientific approaches that shape our changing view of this extraordinary era
Notes Also issued in print: 2020
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 1, 2020)
Subject Merovingians -- Antiquities
Merovingians -- History
Antiquities.
Merovingians.
Merovingians -- Antiquities.
SUBJECT France -- History -- To 987. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051257
Gaul -- Antiquities
Gaul -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85053539
Subject Europe -- Gaul.
France.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Effros, Bonnie, 1965- editor
Moreira, Isabel, editor
ISBN 9780190234201
0190234202
9780197510803
0197510809
Other Titles Merovingian world