This richly documented collection of essays, commissioned from a distinguished group of historians, deals with a wide range of issues in the medieval and modern historiography of the early middle ages.
Authors
Alexander C. Murray, Richard Levesque, Alexander Callander Murray
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 940.1
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e------
- ISBN
- 0802007791 9781442670693
- LCCN
- D116
- LCCN Item number
- A37 1998eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 388 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00600133 (OCoLC)244766834 (CaOOCEL)417850
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- MAP AND FIGURES 8
- PREFACE 10
- ABBREVIATIONS 12
- Introduction: Walter André Goffart 16
- Walter Goffart: Bibliography, 1957–[1997] 21
- 1 Our Forefathers? Tribes, Peoples, and Nations in the Historiography of the Age of Migrations 30
- 2 The Purposes of Cassiodorus' Variae 50
- 3 Gregory of Tours and the Franks 64
- 4 Heresy in Books I and II of Gregory of Tours' Historiae 80
- 5 War, Warlords, and Christian Historians from the Fifth to the Seventh Century 96
- 6 Jonas, the Merovingians, and Pope Honorius: Diplomata and the Vita Columbani 112
- 7 Post vocantur Merohingii: Fredegar, Merovech, and 'Sacral Kingship' 134
- 8 Aristocratic Power in Eighth-Century Lombard Italy 166
- 9 Making a Difference in Eighth-Century Politics: The Daughters of Desiderius 184
- 10 The 'Reviser' Revisited: Another Look at the Alternative Version of the Annales Regni Francorum 204
- 11 Pirenne and Charlemagne 227
- 12 Lupus of Ferrières in His Carolingian Context 245
- 13 What Was Carolingian Monasticism? The Plan of St Gall and the History of Monasticism 264
- 14 The Chronicle of Claudius of Turin 301
- 15 Monks and Canons in Carolingian Gaul: The Case of Rigrannus of Le Mans 333
- 16 Jews, Pilgrimage, and the Christian Cult of Saints: Benjamin of Tudela and His Contemporaries 350
- 17 The Trojan Origins of the French and the Brothers Jean du Tillet 361
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 398
