The Merovingians: Kingship, Institutions, Law, and History

ISBN-13: 9781032054230 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 384 str.

Alexander Murray

Opis

The studies collected here cover a period of about 33 years, from 1986 to 2019, and represent a sustained effort to understand the institutions of the Merovingian kingdom and its history.

Spis treści

1. Post vocantur Merohingii: Fredegar, Merovech, and ‘Sacral Kingship’ / 2. Gregory of Tours (Hist. II 10) and Fredegar (Chron. III 9) on the Paganism of the Franks: The Relation of the Texts and What They Say / 3. The Position of the Grafio in the Constitutional History of Merovingian Gaul / 4. From Roman to Frankish Gaul: Centenarii and Centenae in the Administration of the Merovingian Kingdom / 5. Immunity, Nobility and the Edict of Paris / 6. Merovingian Immunity Revisited / 7. The Merovingian State and Administration in the Times of Gregory of Tours / 8. Review Article: The New MGH Edition of the Charters of the Merovingian Kings / 9. So–called Fictitious Trials in the Merovingian Placita / 10. The Law of the Post–Roman Kingdoms / 11. Reinhard Wenskus on ‘Ethnogenesis,’ Ethnicity, and the Origin of the Franks / 12. The Composition of the Histories of Gregory of Tours and Its Bearing on the Political Narrative

O autorze

Alexander Callander Murray is Professor of History Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Germanic Kinship Structure: Studies in Law and Society in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (1983); editor of After Rome’s Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History, Essays Presented to Walter Goffart (1998) and A Companion to Gregory of Tours (2016); and editor/translator of From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: A Reader (2000) and Gregory of Tours: The Merovingians (2006).