The Merovingians
Kingship, Institutions, Law, and History
$310.40
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
18 May 2022
Summary
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. There has long been a predisposition to cast the Merovingian period in the dark colours of barbarism or to treat it with reference to personal relationships and archaic institutions. The present volume, instead, recognizes the Merovingian world not as an archaic, primitive intrusion on the Mediterranean civi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032054230 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1032054239 |
| Author: | Alexander Murray |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 18 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 761g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Variorum Collected Studies |
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About The Author
Alexander Murray
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).
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