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Fredegund’s Deadly Dinner

Medievalists.net — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 03:04:35 +0000

One of the great villains in Gregory of Tours' The History of the Franks is Fredegund. The sixth-century Merovingian queen was responsible, according to Gregory, for a lengthy list of murders and attempt assassinations, including against her own family members. She even murdered those men who failed to carry out her assassinations.

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Locks of Difference: The Integral Role of Hair as a Distinguishing Feature in Early Merovingian Gaul

Medievalists.net — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 15:58:26 +0000

The aim of this paper is to understand the meanings that the Franks ascribed to hair and, in this quest, it will survey the different interpretations of hair that existed in sixth century Gaul.

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Historian discovers evidence of malaria from the Early Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:43:56 +0000

In his paper, 'Malaria and Malaria-Like Disease in the Frankish Empire, c.450-950, Timothy Newfield examines over fifty references to illnesses which appear in Merovingian and Carolingian sources

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716: A Crucial Year For Charles Martel

Medievalists.net — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:12:19 +0000

The early years of Charles Martel's life are all but obscured from the historian's view.

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The Frankish Pretender Gundovald, 582–585. A Crisis of Merovingian Blood

Medievalists.net — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:49:33 +0000

In the autumn of 582, a claimant to Frankish kingship named Gundovald landed in Marseilles, returning from exile in Constantinople with covert support from very powerful persons in the kingdom.

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Charlemagne still kicking 1200 years later or Morangles Early Medieval Holidays

Medievalists.net — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 19:37:11 +0000

T.S. Morangles takes a trip to see all things Carolingian and Merovingian!

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The Tale of Bealhildis or how an Anglian slave became a saintly French Queen

Medievalists.net — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:19:52 +0000

It is not every day England gives a home girl to be worshipped as a Saint by enthusiastic Gallic crowds.

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Blended and Extended Families in Carolingian Charters

Medievalists.net — Tue, 27 May 2014 09:55:51 +0000

This is a summary of a paper on Carolingian charters and the relationship between step and blended families.

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Merovingian Diplomacy: Practice and purpose in the sixth century

Medievalists.net — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 23:17:07 +0000

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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The ‘second Jezebel’: representations of the sixth-century Queen Brunhild

Medievalists.net — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:29:16 +0000

The sixth century Merovingian queen Brunhild is a figure of extremes, lauded by Pope Gregory the Great as ‘most excellent daughter’ and later defiled as ‘the enemy of
Christianity’.

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