Halfond takes a look at the reign of Charibert I, the Merovigian ruler of the Kingdom of Paris from 561-567, and his early relations with the church.
The role of the nobility in the creation of Gallo-Frankish society in the late fifth and sixth centuries AD
October 9, 2011 By
The role of the nobility in the creation of Gallo-Frankish society in the late fifth and sixth centuries AD Wood, Catrin Mair Lewis PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham (2002) Abstract The aim of this dissertation is to explore the contribution made by the nobility, both Gallo-Roman and Frankish, to the creation of a new society after […]
Germanic Women: Mundium and Property, 400-1000
September 7, 2011 By
Germanic Women: Mundium and Property, 400-1000 Dunn, Kimberlee Harper (University of North Texas) M.A. Thesis (Science), University of North Texas, August (2006) Abstract Many historians would like to discover a time of relative freedom, security and independence for women of the past. The Germanic era, from 400-1000 AD, was a time of stability, and security […]
Lex Salica and the Carolingian ‘Frankish’ Past
August 14, 2011 By
Lex Salica and the Carolingian ‘Frankish’ Past Turnbull, Anna Revealing Records II Conference, King’s College London (2010) Abstract The year 751 is regarded by historians of the early medieval period as a fundamental turning point in the history of the Frankish world, marking the official and final transfer of power, and of the Crown, from […]
Valiant Longhaired Warriors: Symbolizing the Christianity of Merovingian Gaul
August 14, 2011 By
Valiant Longhaired Warriors: Symbolizing the Christianity of Merovingian Gaul By Melissa R. Phillips Honor’s Thesis, Vanderbilt University, 2001 Introduction: Scholars of medieval history have long realized the key role Christianity played in the development of Europe. Not many, however, would suspect that hair played a role within Christianity by providing a clue into the religiousity […]
A Merovingian Commentary on the Four Gospels
June 26, 2011 By
A Merovingian Commentary on the Four Gospels Hen, Yitzhak Revue des Etudes Augustiniennes, 49 (2003) Abstract The Bible was a vital force in early medieval Francia. It offered Merovingian authors a veiled way of talking about the current order of things, and it provided them with an ideal image, against which the present could be […]
Between Arles, Rome, and Toledo: Gallic collections of canon law in Late Antiquity
May 8, 2011 By
Between Arles, Rome, and Toledo: Gallic collections of canon law ¡n Late Antiquity By Ralph W. Mathisen Fronteras Religiosas entre Roma, Bizancio, Damasco y Toledo. El Nacimiento de Europa y del Islam (Siglos V-VIII), edited by S. Montero (Madrid, 1999) Introduction: Late Antiquity, and the sixth century in particular, was the great age of church […]
Merovingian History and Merovingian Hagiography
February 6, 2011 By
Merovingian History and Merovingian Hagiography By Paul Fouracre Past and Present, Vol. 127:1 (1990) Introduction: In a recent survey aimed at providing a usefully selective bibliography of works on saints and cults, Stephen Wilson listed over 1,300 titles, a total which is but a fraction of the full output on the subject. Hagiography has attracted […]
Far from Barbaric: Re-assessing the Sophistication of Merovingian Metalworking
December 24, 2010 By
Far from Barbaric: Re-assessing the Sophistication of Merovingian Metalworking By Robert M. Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Samuel K. Nash JOM, Vol. 57:8 (2005) Abstract: The demise of the Roman Empire during the mid-fifth century A.D. resulted in the rise of one of Europe’s longest ruling families of the Middle Ages: the Merovingians. The Merovingian dynasty […]
The Merovingian and Carolingian Dynasties
December 19, 2010 By
Merovingian and Carolingian history articles available through Medievalists.net are listed here, including the reign of Charlemagne. Security and insecurity of identity and status in the Frankish elite, by Stuart Airlie - Conference Paper (2009) Warfare and Society in the Carolingian Ostmark, by Charles R. Bowlus – Austrian History Yearbook, vol.14 (1978) Charlemagne’s court library revisited, by Donald […]
Archaeology and history: Proposals on the social structure of the Merovingian kingdom
December 12, 2010 By
Archaeology and history: Proposals on the social structure of the Merovingian kingdom Steuer, Heiko The Birth of Europe : Archaeology and Social Development in the First Millennium A.D., ed. Klavs Randsborg (Rome, 1989) Abstract In recent years, research into the structure of Germanic society during its prehistoric to early modern periods has gained new momentum through […]
We have chosen a few things from among many: the adaptations and suitability of nuns’ rules in Merovingian Gaul
October 18, 2010 By
For female monasticism, the sixth and seventh centuries represent a period during which women religious and monastic authorities were struggling to define and organize the monastic community in a way that would best serve the needs of women in the community.
The Peasant Rusticus: Life near Paris in the Time of Clovis
October 4, 2010 By
‘History,’ wrote the late Eileen Power, ‘is largely made up of Bodos.’ With that final sentence of her essay on Bodo, a Carolingian-era peasant near Paris….
Why Eastern Women Matter: The Influence of Byzantine Empresses on Western Queenship during the Middle Ages
September 19, 2010 By
My research proposes that the imperial women of the east had an important and discernable influence on the royal women of the west. In order to show this influence I examine the nature of western queenship by analyzing the Merovingian, Carolingian, and Ottonian dynasties.
The recruitment of armies in the early middle ages: what can we know?
August 17, 2010 By
The recruitment of armies in the early middle ages: what can we know? By Timothy Reuter Military Aspects of Scandinavian Society in a European Perspective, Ad 1-1300: Papers from an International Research Seminar at the Danish Museum, Copenhagen, 2-4 May 1996, edited by Anne Norgard Jorgensen and Birthe L. Clausen (Copenhagen, 1997) Introduction: The study of […]
Merovingian partitions: a ‘genealogical charter’?
January 16, 2010 By
Merovingian partitions: a ‘genealogical charter’? By Marc Widdowson Early Medieval Europe, Vol.17:1 (2009) Abstract: This paper considers the classic accounts of Frankish partitions in 511 and 561 in light of the agenda of Gregory of Tours in the later 580s. While the partitions’ political origins have long been emphasized, the concern here is with the […]
Secondary responses to fear and grief in Gregory of Tours’ Libri historiarum
December 28, 2009 By
Secondary responses to fear and grief in Gregory of Tours’ Libri historiarum By Ron F. Newbold Studia Humaniora Tartuensia, vol. 7 (2006) Abstract: Bodies of evidence drawn from the occurrence of Latin words for fear and grief in Gregory’s history form the basis for this study. Although the causes of these emotions and their distribution […]
How Popular Was Early Medieval Devotion?
December 23, 2009 By
How Popular Was Early Medieval Devotion? Wood, Ian Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 14 (1997) Abstract At the end of a seminal paper Arnaldo Momigliano remarked that “Lectures on popular religious beliefs and the late Roman historians should be severely discouraged.” To offer a lecture on popular devotion in the Early Middle Ages might be […]
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