Age of Charlemagne (Men at Arms, 150)
by David Nicolle, Martin Windrow
Listed under Charlemagne
The
Age of Charles Martel
by Paul Fouracre
Before
France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian
World
by Patrick J. Geary
Book Description In this innovative new study, Patrick Geary
rejects traditional conceptions of European history to present the Merovingian
period (ca. 400-750) as an integral part of Late Antiquity. Mapping the
complex interactions of a volatile era, he formulates an original interpretation
not only of Merovingian history but of the Romano-barbarian world, tracing
the Romanization of barbarians and the barbarization of the Romans which
ultimately made these populations indistinguishable.
Paperback: 259 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.53 x
7.93 x 5.29
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (February 1988)
ISBN: 0195044584
Charlemagne
and France: A Thousand Years of Mythology
by Robert J. Morrissey
The Carolingian Empire
by Heinrich Fichtenau, Peter Munz (Translator)
Listed under Charlemagne
Creating
Community With Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul
by Bonnie Effros
Book Description Feasting and fasting rituals were a central
facet of social interaction in early medieval Gaul. With the adoption of
Christianity in the third and fourth centuries in cosmopolitan centers
and in the fifth and sixth centuries in rural communities, clerics faced
the challenge of guiding recent converts with little understanding of Christianity
beyond the rudimentary catechism necessary for baptism. While priests condemned
blatantly pagan celebrations, they could not eliminate the powerful networks
sustained by food and drink rituals. Accommodation of existing rites did
not, however, represent pagan survivals. Using contemporary saints' lives,
canonical legislation, penitentials, theological tracts, monastic Rules
and cemeterial remains, Bonnie Effros presents five essays addressing the
ways in which clerical authors portrayed rites involving food and drink
in their attempts to define membership in religious communities, strengthen
their relationships with the laity, highlight gender differences, bring
about the healing of the sick and maintain ties to deceased ancestors.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; (November 30, 2002)
Caring
for Body and Soul: Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World
by Bonnie Effros
Book Description: The relationship between the living and the dead
was especially significant in defining community identity and spiritual
belief in the early medieval world. Peter Brown has called it the "joining
of Heaven and Earth." For clerics and laypersons alike, funerals and burial
sites were important means for establishing or extending power over rival
families and monasteries and commemorating ancestors. In Caring for Body
and Soul, Bonnie Effros reveals the social significance of burial rites
in early medieval Europe during the time of the Merovingian, or so-called
"Long-Haired" Kings from 500 to 800 C.E.
Hardcover: 255 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.97 x
8.46 x 6.30
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt); (September
2002)
ISBN: 0271021969
Culture
and Religion in Merovingian Gaul A.D. 481-751
by Yitzhak Hen
Book Description Although often depicted as a barbaric and uncivilised
society, in the full pejorative meaning of these words, Merovingian Gaul
was clearly a Christian society and a direct continuation of the Roman
civilisation in terms of social standards, morals and culture. Using insights
provided by social history, archaeology, palaeography and anthropology,
this book studies the problem of Christianisation in early Medieval Gaul
from a cultural point of view. While exploiting a huge range of primary
and secondary material, Dr. Hen does not confine himself to a functional
analysis of various cultural and religious activities in Merovingian Gaul,
but goes on to assess the consequences and implications of such activities
for the people themselves, and for the subsequent developments in the Carolingian
period.
Hardcover: 308 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x
9.75 x 6.75
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers; (June 1995)
ISBN: 9004103473
Dreams,
Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul
by Isabel Moreira
Book Description In early medieval Europe, dreams and visions were
believed to reveal divine information about Christian life and the hereafter.
No consensus existed, however, as to whether all Christians, or only a
spiritual elite, were entitled to have a relationship of this sort with
the supernatural. Drawing on a rich variety of sources--histories, hagiographies,
ascetic literature, and records of dreams at saints' shrines--Isabel Moreira
provides insight into a society struggling to understand and negotiate
its religious visions.
Hardcover: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.89 x
9.51 x 6.32
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr; (June 29, 2000)
ISBN: 0801436613
The
Frankish Church
by J. M. Wallace-Hadrill
Synopsis This survey of the development of the Frankish Church under
the Merovingian and Carolingian kings (approximately AD 500 - 900) is the
first of its kind to appear in English. It is not a story of unimpeded
advance towards the Church of medieval France but rather of painful adaptation.
It takes account of unsolved problems: the reaction of the Church to heresy,
to Judaism, to the Frankish ethos of marriage, and to the conversion of
peoples outside Francia itself. Special attention is paid to the intellectual
interests of churchmen and to the role of the vernacular in transmitting
the Christian message to clergy and laity whose Latin was negligible or
nil. Much turned on the authority of a succession of rulers who combined
deep piety with material needs that were inimical to the Church's position
as a great landowner. The advance of the Church was thus hesitant and often
baulked. What emerges is the churchmen's increasing resolve to unite against
the pressures of lay domination, and to press forward with their basic
duties as converters and teachers.
Hardcover: 624 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.39 x
9.30 x 6.22
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr; (November 2001)
ISBN: 0198269064
The
Frankish Kings and Culture in the Early Middle Ages
by Rosamond McKitterick
Hardcover: 313 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x
9.25 x 6.25
Publisher: Variorum; (May 1995)
ISBN: 0860784584
The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians, 751-987
by Rosamond McKitterick
Listed under Charlemagne
A History of Pagan Europe
by Prudence Jones, Nigel Pennick (Contributor)
Listed under Medieval History
The Medieval Fortress: Castles, Forts and Walled Cities of the Middle
Ages
by Joseph Kaufmann, et al
Listed under Castles & Fortresses
The
History of the Franks
by Gregory of Tours
Viking Press; Reprint edition (April 1983)
Gregory
of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century
by Martin Heinzelmann (Author), Christopher Carroll (Translator)
Book Description For 1400 years Gregory's Histories--the principal
work of Merovingian history--have been understood as a "history of the
Franks" and as an objective portrayal of history, albeit told by a naive
narrator. This completely new interpretation of the Histories reveals connections
between apparently unconnected, adjacent chapters, and also begins to make
out their real function. Gregory (538-594) can be seen as focusing on the
development of a socio-political concept of society, which anticipates
the leadership of the Christian state entrusted to the joint government
of bishops and king.
Merovingian
Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
by Bonnie Effros
from University of California Press
The
Merovingian Kingdoms, 450-751
by Ian Wood
Addison-Wesley Pub Co; (April 1995)
Long-Haired
Kings and Other Studies in Frankish History
by J. M. Wallace-Hadrill
Paperback: 261 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x
9.25 x 6.25
Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr; (June 1982)
ISBN: 0802065007
The
Song of Roland
translated by W. S. Merwin
The
World of Gregory of Tours
by Kathleen Mitchell and Ian Wood (Editors)
Brill Academic Publishers; (August 2002)
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