Yaniv Fox

Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the political and social effects brought about by the establishment of Columbanian monasteries in seventh-century Gaul.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 365
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781107064591
• ISBN-10: 1107064597
• Artikelnr.: 41081315

Autorenporträt

Yaniv Fox is an I-CORE postdoctoral fellow at the Open University of Israel. He took his undergraduate degree at Tel Aviv University in history and communications, followed by a Masters and PhD at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel in early medieval history, during which he was awarded the Negev fellowship. As a doctoral candidate he received the MAHAR award for outstanding article in the humanities, awarded for a paper published on early medieval Europe. After submitting his doctoral dissertation, he received the 2012-13 Rothschild postdoctoral fellowship for the humanities, which allowed him to spend a year as a visiting scholar at the Faculty of History in the University of Cambridge and a Postdoctoral Associate at Clare Hall. Yaniv Fox has taught several courses in early medieval history at the Open University of Israel, Ben-Gurion University, and Achva Academic Campus. His field of interest is early medieval history and, particularly, the history of monastic patronage in the Gibichung and Merovingian kingdoms.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Merovingians
2. The aristocracy
3. Monasteries as guardians of family memory
4. Monasteries as guardians of family property
5. Monastic identity
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.