Late Merovingian France (Manchester Medieval Sources) 1st Edition by Paul Fouracre (PDF)

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This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint’s lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships. The book makes available a range of 7th- and early 8th-century texts, five of which have never before been translated into English. It opens with a broad-ranging explanation of the historical background to the translated texts and then each source is accompanied by a full commentary and an introductory essay exploring its authorship, language and subject matter. The sources are rich in the detail of Merovingian political life. Their subjects are the powerful in society and they reveal the successful interplay between power and sanctity, a process which came to underpin much of European culture throughout the early Middle Ages.

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint’s lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships. The book makes available a range of 7th- and early 8th-century texts, five of which have never before been translated into English. It opens with a broad-ranging explanation of the historical background to the translated texts and then each source is accompanied by a full commentary and an introductory essay exploring its authorship, language and subject matter. The sources are rich in the detail of Merovingian political life. Their subjects are the powerful in society and they reveal the successful interplay between power and sanctity, a process which came to underpin much of European culture throughout the early Middle Ages. From the Back Cover This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint’s lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships. The book makes available a range of 7th- and early 8th-century texts, five of which have never before been translated into English. It opens with a broad-ranging explanation of the historical background to the translated texts and then each source is accompanied by a full commentary and an introductory essay exploring its authorship, language and subject matter. The sources are rich in the detail of Merovingian political life. Their subjects are the powerful in society and they reveal the successful interplay between power and sanctity, a process which came to underpin much of European culture throughout the early Middle Ages. About the Author Paul Fouracre is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Manchester Read more

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⭐In the 500s, the Frankish state formed from the ashes of the northern Gaulish, German and Belgian provinces. The Franks and Latins here boasted a fine historian in Gregory of Tours. And then… it all went to hell, and there were no more historians to tell us why. But there were, still, authors of the lives of saints, and chronologists. So this is the material we all need to make sense of this period.This book provides eight primary and secondary sources from the era overlapping the early Umayyads (640-720 AD). It also contains a long introductory essay, and commentaries upon each source. The period as a whole includes, especially, the career of Ebroin; this towering “major-domo” was a man-who-would-be-king like Pepin the Short not too many generations later. But since Ebroin never did get to be king, the chronicles and saints-lives tend to see Ebroin as a villain. Makes one wonder how Pepin would be viewed today if the Merovings had found a prince strong enough to defend their rights, but that’s another story . . .This is not to say that the sources themselves are to be trusted on face; the Liber Historiae Francorum, especially, is wretched. But that is hardly the *translators’* fault – and the translators are always there with footnotes to explain matters. For what these sources are, the editors have done an exemplary job.

⭐The book is very interesting and well done. All themes are well developed and the sources well quoted. I give four stars only because there is only the translation and not the original complete Latin text.

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