The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Effros, Bonnie; Moreira, Isabel

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Produktbeschreibung

The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least well 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-Roman inhabitants 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. The forty-six essays included in this volume highlight why the Merovingian era is at the heart of historical debates about what happened to Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. The essays demonstrate that the inhabitants of the Merovingian kingdoms in these centuries created a culture that was the product of these traditions and achieved a balance between the world they inherited and the imaginative solutions they bequeathed to Europe. The Handbook highlights new perspectives and scientific approaches that shape our changing view of this extraordinary era by showing that Merovingian Gaul was situated at the crossroads of Europe, connecting the Mediterranean and the British Isles with the Byzantine empire, and it benefited from the global reach of the late Roman Empire. It tells the story of the Merovingian world through archaeology, bio-archaeology, architecture, hagiographic literature, history, liturgy, visionary literature and eschatology, patristics, numismatics, and material culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1056
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190234195
• Artikelnr.: 59977875

Autorenporträt

Bonnie Effros, Chaddock Chair of Economic and Social History, University of Liverpool; Isabel Moreira, Distinguished Professor of Medieval History, University of Utah. Bonnie Effros is the Chaddock Chair of Economic and Social History at the University of Liverpool. Isabel Moreira is Distinguished Professor of Medieval History at the University of Utah.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Abbreviations
* List of Contributors
* Map of Merovingian Gaul
* Merovingian Family Tree
* Introduction
* 1. Pushing the Boundaries of the Merovingian World
* Bonnie Effros and Isabel Moreira
* PART I MEROVINGIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY
* 2. From Gaul to Francia: The Impact of the Merovingians
* Paul Fouracre
* 3. Writing the History of Merovingian Gaul: An Historiographical
Survey
* Agnès Graceffa
* 4. Two Centuries of Excavating Merovingian-Era Cemeteries in France
* Bonnie Effros
* PART II EXPRESSING IDENTITY
* 5. Transformations of Identities: Barbarians and Romans in the
Merovingian Realm
* Magali Coumert
* 6. Migrants and Minorities in Merovingian Gaul
* Wolfram Drews
* 7. Human Remains and What They Can Tell Us about Status and Identity
in the Merovingian Period
* Andrea Czermak
* 8. Gender in Merovingian Gaul
* Guy Halsall
* 9. Children's Lives and Deaths in Merovingian Gaul
* Émilie Perez
* PART III STRUCTURES OF POWER
* 10. The Merovingian Polity: A Network of Courts and Courtiers
* Yitzhak Hen
* 11. Elite Women in the Merovingian Period
* Edward James
* 12. The Military and Its Role in Merovingian Society
* Laury Sarti
* 13. Corporate Solidarity and Its Limits within the Gallo-Frankish
Episcopate
* Gregory Halfond
* 14. Public Health, Hospitals, and Charity
* Peregrine Horden
* 15. Merovingian Monasticism: Voices of Dissent
* Albrecht Diem
* PART IV MEROVINGIAN GAUL IN A WIDER CONTEXT
* 16. The Merovingians and Byzantium: Diplomatic, Military, and
Religious Issues, 500-700
* Stefan Esders
* 17. The Movement of People and Things between Britain and France in
the Late- and Post-Roman Periods
* Robin Fleming
* 18. De gente Scottorum monachi: The Irish in Merovingian Settlement
Strategy
* Jean-Michel Picard
* 19. "Alors commença la France": Merovingian Expansion South of the
Loire, 495-510
* Ralph W. Mathisen
* 20. The Merovingians, the Avars, and the Slavs
* Matthias Hardt
* 21. The Merovingians and Italy: Ostrogoths and Early Lombards
* Jonathan J. Arnold
* PART V MEROVINGIAN WRITTEN CULTURE
* 22. The History of Historiography in the Merovingian Period
* Helmut Reimitz
* 23. Merovingian Legal Cultures
* Alice Rio
* 24. Merovingian Hagiography
* Jamie Kreiner
* 25. Letters and Communication Networks in Merovingian Gaul
* Andrew Gillett
* 26. Merovingian Epigraphy, Frankish Epigraphy, and the Epigraphy of
the Merovingian World.
* Mark Handley
* PART VI MEROVINGIAN LANDSCAPES
* 27. The Role of the City in Merovingian Francia
* S. T. Loseby
* 28. The Fate of Small Towns, Hilltop Settlements, and Elite
Residences in Merovingian-Period Gaul
* Luc Bourgeois
* 29. The Fate of Late-Roman Villas in Southern Gaul between the Sixth
and Seventh Centuries.
* Alexandra Chavarría Arnau
* 30. Merovingian Religious Architecture: Some New Reflections
* Pascale Chevalier
* 31. Rural Life and Work in Northern Gaul during the Early Middle Ages
* Edith Peytremann
* 32. Good and Bad Plants in Merovingian Francia
* Paolo Squatriti
* 33. Livestock and the Early Medieval Diet in Northern Gaul
* Jean-Hervé Yvinec and Maude Barme
* PART VII ECONOMIES, EXCHANGE, AND PRODUCTION
* 34. Maritime and River Traders, Landing Places, and Emporia Ports in
the Merovingian Period in and around the Low Countries
* Dries Tys
* 35. The Evidence of Numismatics: "Merovingian" Coinage and the Place
of Frankish Gaul and Its Cities in an "Invisible" Roman Empire
* Jürgen Strothmann
* 36. Bead and Garnet Trade between the Merovingian, Mediterranean, and
Indian Worlds
* Constantin Pion, Bernard Gratuze, Patrick Périn, and Thomas Calligaro
* 37. Merovingian Gaul and the Mediterranean: Ceramics and Trade
* Michel Bonifay and Dominique Pieri
* 38. Long-Distance Trade and the Rural Population of Northern Gaul
* Frans Theuws
* 39. Belt Buckles and Burials in Southwestern Gaul
* Ralph J. Patrello
* PART VIII THE SUPERNATURAL AND THE AFTERLIFE
* 40. Amulets and Identity in the Merovingian World
* Genevra Kornbluth
* 41. Magic and Divination in the Merovingian World
* William E. Klingshirn
* 42. Visions and the Afterlife
* Isabel Moreira
* 43. Inscribed in the Book of Life: Liturgical Commemoration in
Merovingian Gaul
* Els Rose
* 44. Liturgy and the Laity
* Lisa Kaaren Bailey
* 45. The Life of Penance
* Kevin Uhalde
* 46. Merovingian Meditations on Jesus
* Lynda Coon
* Index