Medievalists.net » Gaul http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Hagiography and the Experience of the Holy in the Work of Gregory of Tours http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/09/hagiography-experience-holy-work-gregory-tours/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/09/hagiography-experience-holy-work-gregory-tours/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2014 03:33:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54026 The rich literature associated with the Desert Fathers provides convincing evidence of the important role played by charismatic figures in the transformation of Late Antiquity.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/09/hagiography-experience-holy-work-gregory-tours/feed/ 0 A British legion stationed near Orléans c. 530? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/02/british-legion-stationed-near-orleans-c-530/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/02/british-legion-stationed-near-orleans-c-530/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:17:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52276 Several recent books lead the reader to believe that Vita sancti Dalmatii, written in c. 800, records a legio Britannica (a British army) stationed near Orléans in c. 530. As this paper demonstrates, the only correct detail of this purported record is the word legio, and this may well have a non-military connotation.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/02/british-legion-stationed-near-orleans-c-530/feed/ 0 Merovingian Diplomacy: Practice and purpose in the sixth century http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/06/merovingian-diplomacy-practice-purpose-sixth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/06/merovingian-diplomacy-practice-purpose-sixth-century/#comments Sun, 06 Apr 2014 23:17:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48818 The practise of diplomacy has not been much studied in Merovingian Gaul, although there are numerous works that deal with its political dealings with its neighbours and with the administration and culture of Gaul at this time.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/06/merovingian-diplomacy-practice-purpose-sixth-century/feed/ 0 A Revival of Female Spirituality: Adaptations of Nuns’ Rules during the Hiberno-Frankish Monastic Movement http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/12/a-revival-of-female-spirituality-adaptations-of-nuns-rules-during-the-hiberno-frankish-monastic-movement/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/12/a-revival-of-female-spirituality-adaptations-of-nuns-rules-during-the-hiberno-frankish-monastic-movement/#comments Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:24:19 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42789 Before Columbanus, Irish abbots demonstrated little interest in producing monastic rules as we know them from the traditions of Benedict of Nursia and Caesarius of Arles. Preferring instruction by example to any documented tenets, Irish monasticism emphasized the conduct of the founding or ruling abbot or abbess as a model to imitate.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/12/a-revival-of-female-spirituality-adaptations-of-nuns-rules-during-the-hiberno-frankish-monastic-movement/feed/ 0 The Liber Historiae Francorum – a Model for a New Frankish Self-confidence http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/07/the-liber-historiae-francorum-a-model-for-a-new-frankish-self-confidence/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/07/the-liber-historiae-francorum-a-model-for-a-new-frankish-self-confidence/#comments Wed, 07 Aug 2013 13:11:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42674 The Liber Historiae Francorum – a Model for a New Frankish Self-confidence Philipp Dörler Networks and Neighbours, Volume One, Number One (2013) The Liber historiae Francorum was influenced by different historiographic traditions. In this paper, I pursue two arguments. First, I believe that the author of the Liber historiae Francorum juxtaposes and slightly transforms these […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/07/the-liber-historiae-francorum-a-model-for-a-new-frankish-self-confidence/feed/ 0 Barbarians to the Balkans http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/barbarians-to-the-balkans/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/barbarians-to-the-balkans/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:15:17 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39912 In the High Middle Ages, in a now clearly articulated opposition between the West and the East, Europe and the Balkans began to emerge and be fixed as distinct and hostile entities. In Crusading chronicles, the Balkan lands lay on the way from Europe to the Holy Land. In the late twelfth and in the thirteenth centuries, the conventional separation line between the civilized and barbarian world, identical with the river Danube, began to break down and the barbarians came to be located in the Balkans.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/barbarians-to-the-balkans/feed/ 0 The ‘Prehistory’ of Gregory of Tours: An Analysis of Books I-IV of Gregory’s Histories http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/11/the-prehistory-of-gregory-of-tours-an-analysis-of-books-i-iv-of-gregorys-histories/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/11/the-prehistory-of-gregory-of-tours-an-analysis-of-books-i-iv-of-gregorys-histories/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:03:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39211 In northern Gaul in the second half of the sixth century, a bishop of Tours, Georgius Florentius Gregorius, known to posterity as Gregory of Tours, composed eight books of hagiography and ten books of history. These testaments survive as evidence of the politics, society and theology of this post-imperial world.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/02/11/the-prehistory-of-gregory-of-tours-an-analysis-of-books-i-iv-of-gregorys-histories/feed/ 0 Scissors or Sword? The Symbolism of a Medieval Haircut http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/06/scissors-or-sword-the-symbolism-of-a-medieval-haircut/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/06/scissors-or-sword-the-symbolism-of-a-medieval-haircut/#comments Sun, 07 Oct 2012 02:45:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36296 Simon Coates explores the symbolic meanings attached to hair in the early medieval West, and how it served to denote differences in age, sex, ethnicity and status.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/06/scissors-or-sword-the-symbolism-of-a-medieval-haircut/feed/ 0 The Gallic Aristocracy and the Roman Imperial government in the fifth century A.D. http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/23/the-gallic-aristocracy-and-the-roman-imperial-government-in-the-fifth-century-a-d-2/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/23/the-gallic-aristocracy-and-the-roman-imperial-government-in-the-fifth-century-a-d-2/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:11:03 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35891 The recovery, however, proved to be too superficial for the continuing prosperity of either Gaul or the Western Roman Empire. The problems of the imperial government continued with little relief. The government still had to drive out and keep out the barbarians...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/23/the-gallic-aristocracy-and-the-roman-imperial-government-in-the-fifth-century-a-d-2/feed/ 0 Constantius and the Visigothic Settlement in Gaul http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/21/constantius-and-the-visigothic-settlement-in-gaul/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/21/constantius-and-the-visigothic-settlement-in-gaul/#comments Sat, 22 Sep 2012 02:37:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35872 The emperor Honorius made an attempt during his reign to calm the turbulent region of Gaul by assigning one of his generals to the area and appointing him as the head of the regions armies.

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