The World of Paul the Deacon and the Lombards: Geopolitical Perspectives in an Early Medieval Account
The Lombard settlement of Italy has reached us through Paul the Deacon, a monk and tutor of the 8th century. He has provided us with the only extant discursive history on the Lombards until the invasion of the Carolingians in 774 and has thus crucially marked our knowledge of the history of the region.
Slavs in Fredegar and Paul the Deacon: medieval gens or ‘scourge of God’?
This article presents a new interpretation of the accounts of Slavs given by two early medieval Latin narrative sources.