Alexander Murray

The Merovingians (eBook, PDF)

Kingship, Institutions, Law, and History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000530674
• Artikelnr.: 63616806

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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