Contributor
Effros, Bonnie, 1965- editor, author.
ImprintNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Descriptionxviii, 1141 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Note:Introduction -- Pushing the Boundaries of the Merovingian World / Bonnie Effros and Isabel Moreira -- Part I. Merovingian historiography and the history of archaeology -- From Gaul to Francia: The Impact of the Merovingians / Paul Fouracre -- Writing the History of Merovingian Gaul: An Historiographical Survey / Agnès Graceffa -- Two Centuries of Excavating Merovingian-Era Cemeteries / Bonnie Effros -- Part II. Expressing identity -- Transformations of Identities: Barbarians and Romans in the Merovingian Realm / Magali Coumert -- Migrants and Minorities in Merovingian Gaul / Wolfram Drews -- Human Remains and What They Can Tell Us About Status and Identity in the Merovingian Period / Andrea Czermak -- Gender in Merovingian Gaul / Guy Halsall -- Children's Lives and Deaths in Merovingian Gaul / Émilie Perez -- Part III. Structures of power -- The Merovingian Polity: A Network of Courts and Courtiers / Yitzhak Hen -- Elite Women in the Merovingian World / Edward James -- The Military and its Role in Merovingian Society / Laury Sarti -- Corporate Solidarity and its Limits within the Gallo-Frankish Episcopate / Gregory Halfond -- Public Health, Hospitals, and Charity / Peregrine Horden -- The Monastic Experiment / Albrecht Diem -- Part IV. Merovingian Gaul in a wider context -- The Merovingians and Byzantium: Diplomatic, Military and Religious Issues, 500-700 / Stefan Esders -- The Movement of People and Things between Britain and France: in the Late-and Post-Roman Periods / Robin Fleming -- De gente Scottorum monachi: the Irish in Merovingian Settlement Strategy / Jean-Michel Picard -- "Alors commença la France": Merovingian Expansion South of the Loire, 495-510 CE / Ralph W. Mathisen -- Merovingians and the Avars and Slavs / Matthias Hardt -- Merovingians and Italy: Ostrogoths and early Lombards / Jonathan J. Arnold -- Part V. Merovingian written culture -- The History of Historiography in the Merovingian Period / Helmut Reimitz -- Merovingian Legal Cultures / Alice Rio -- Merovingian Hagiography / Jamie Kreiner -- Letters and Communication Networks in Merovingian Gaul / Andrew Gillett -- Merovingian Epigraphy and Epigraphy in the Merovingian World / Mark A. Handley -- Part VI. Merovingian landscapes -- The Role of the City in Merovingian Francia / S. T. Loseby -- The Fate of Small Towns, Hilltop Settlements, and Elite Residences in Merovingian-Period Gaul / Luc Bourgeois -- The Fate of Late-Roman Villas in Southern Gaul between the Sixth and Seventh Centuries / Alexandra Chavarría Arnau -- Merovingian Religious Architecture: Some New Reflections / Pascale Chevalier -- Rural Life and Work in Northern Gaul during the Early Middle Ages / Edith Peytremann -- Good and Bad Plants in Merovingian Francia / Paolo Squatriti -- Livestock and the Early Medieval Diet in Northern Gaul / Jean-Hervé Yvinec and Maude Barme -- Part VII. Economies, exchange, and production -- Maritime and River-Traders, Landing-Places and Emporia Ports in the Merovingian Period / Dries Tys -- The Evidence of Numismatics: "Merovingian" Coinage and the Place of Frankish Gaul and its Cities in an "Invisible" Roman Empire / Jürgen Strothmann -- Bead and Garnet Trade between the Merovingian, Mediterranean, and Indian Worlds / Constantin Pion, Bernard Gratuze, Patrick Périn, and Thomas Calligaro -- Merovingian Gaul and the Mediterranean: Ceramics and Trade / Michel Bonifay and Dominique Pieri -- Long Distance Trade and the Rural Population of Northern Gaul / Frans Theuws -- Belt Buckles and Burials in Southwestern Gaul / Ralph J. Patrello -- Part VIII. The supernatural and the afterlife -- Amulets and Identity in the Merovingian World / Genevra Kornbluth -- Magic and Divination in the Merovingian World / William E. Klingshirn -- Visions and the Afterlife / Isabel Moreira -- Inscribed in the Book of Life: Liturgical Commemoration in Merovingian Gaul / Els Rose -- Liturgy and the Laity / Lisa Kaaren Bailey -- The Life of Penance / Kevin Uhalde -- Merovingian Meditations on Jesus / Lynda Coon.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"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."-- Provided by publisher.
