Merovingian Worlds

Auteur

James T. Palmer is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews. His previous books include Anglo-Saxons in a Frankish World 690-900 (2009), The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages (2014), and Early Medieval Hagiography (2018).

Texte du rabat

"This book offers an essential, up-to-date guide to European history c. 450-751. It will be critical reading for students taking medieval survey courses and more specialist modules on the period. It will benefit scholars and teachers by introducing the technicalities of the evidence and how to interpret it"--

Contenu

Introduction; 1. History and its historians; 2. Identities and status; 3. Power in the early Merovingian world (c. 450-613); 4. The rise of the shadow kings (613-751); 5. Economies, people and nature; 6. Literacy and culture; 7. The Frankish churches; 8. Religions and the wider world; Epilogue.