The Merovingians : kingship, institutions, law, and history

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of maps -- List of genealogies -- Preface -- Common abbreviations -- Part I Were the Merovingians sacral kings? -- 1 Post vocantur Merohingii: Fredegar, Merovech, and 'sacral kingship' --...

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1. Verfasser: Murray, Alexander C. 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Variorum Collected Studies
Schlagworte:Merovingians Law, Frankish Electronic books
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (401 seiten)
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Zusammenfassung:Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of maps -- List of genealogies -- Preface -- Common abbreviations -- Part I Were the Merovingians sacral kings? -- 1 Post vocantur Merohingii: Fredegar, Merovech, and 'sacral kingship' -- 2 Gregory of Tours (Hist. II 10) and Fredegar (Chron. III 9) on the paganism of the Franks: the relation of the texts and what they say -- Part II Institutions -- 3 The position of the grafio in the constitutional history of Merovingian Gaul -- 4 From Roman to Frankish Gaul: centenarii and centenae in the administration of the Merovingian kingdom -- 5 Immunity, nobility and the Edict of Paris -- 6 Merovingian immunity revisited -- 7 The Merovingian state and administration in the times of Gregory of Tours -- Part III Charters, procedure, and law -- 8 Review article: the new MGH edition of the charters of the Merovingian kings -- 9 So-called fictitious trial in the Merovingian placita -- 10 The law of the post-Roman kingdoms -- Part IV Historiography -- 11 Reinhard Wenskus on 'ethnogenesis,' ethnicity, and the origin of the Franks -- 12 The composition of the Histories of Gregory of Tours and its bearing on the political narrative -- With an appendix of selections from "Chronology and the Composition of the Histories of Gregory of Tours," Journal of Late Antiquity 1/1 (2008): 157-196 -- Maps -- Genealogies -- Alexander Callander Murray: bibliography -- General index -- Index of selected authors.
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (401 seiten)
ISBN:9781000530698
1000530698
9781032054230
1032054239