Late Merovingian France: History and Hagiography, 640-720

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Paul Fouracre, Richard A. Gerberding
Manchester University Press, 1996 - Всего страниц: 397
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.
 

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Liber Historiae Francorum
79
Vita Domnae Balthidis
97
Vita Audoini Episcopi Rotomagensis
133
Acta Aunemundi The Deeds of Aunemund
166
Passio Praejecti The Suffering of Praejectus
254
Vita Sanctae Geretrudis The Life of St Geretrud
301
The First Section of Annales Mettenses Priores
330
Bibliography
371
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Paul Fouracre is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Manchester

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