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The Merovingians

Kingship, Institutions, Law, and History

By: Alexander Callander Murray

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The Merovingians

Kingship, Institutions, Law, and History

By: Alexander Callander Murray

The studies collected here cover a period of about 33 years, from 1986 to 2019, and represent a sustained effort to understand the institutions of the Merovingian kingdom and its history. There has long been a predisposition to cast the Merovingian period in the dark colours of barbarism or to treat it with reference to personal relationships and archaic institutions. The present volume, instead, recognizes the Merovingian world not as an archaic, primitive intrusion on the Mediterranean civilization of the Roman Empire but simply as a participant in the wider commonwealth that existed before and remained after the dissolution of the western imperial system; in so doing, it serves to refute the scholarly tendency to primitivize Merovingian governance, its underlying institutions, and the broader culture upon which these rested. The collection is divided into four parts. Part I considers the question of whether Merovingian kingship should be viewed as a species of archaic, ‘sacral’ kingship. Part II, on institutions, has chapters that deal with various offices (the grafio and centenarius), public institutions (especially immunity and public security), and the broader makeup of the Merovingian state system. Part III, on charters, procedure, and law, has chapters on the profile of the charter evidence as now presented in the new MGH edition of the Merovingian diplomas and one on particular procedures before the royal tribunal, mistakenly referred to in scholarship as ‘fictitious’ trials; a final chapter provides a reflection on, and basic guide to, the law in general of the successor kingdoms, with an eye to the evidence of Merovingian Gaul. Part IV, a slight change of pace, deals with historiography, both the modern variety (Reinhard Wenskus) and the Merovingian (Gregory of Tours). All chapters deal extensively with the historiography of their subjects. This book will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in Early Medieval European history, Merovingian history, Early Medieval law and society, Early Medieval historiography, and the influence of Merovingian law and governance on later centuries. (CS 1104).

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Kingship, Institutions, Law, and History

By: Alexander Callander Murray

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Kingship, Institutions, Law, and History

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Germanic Kinship Structure

Studies in Law and Society in Antiquity and in the Early Middle Ages

By: Alexander C. Murray

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Germanic Kinship Structure

Studies in Law and Society in Antiquity and in the Early Middle Ages

By: Alexander C. Murray

This book is a major reevaluation of the traditional view of early Germanic kinship structure and the large body of evidence from Antiquity and the early Middle Ages which has long been thought to support its major assumptions. The book is about kinship, but also, directly and indirectly, about other aspects of the period: law, association and social organization, family institutions and the barbarian and Roman heritage of the early Middle Ages. It is its principal aim that from a re-examination of kinship will come a greater understanding of some of the central documents of barbarian social and legal history.

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272

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PIMS

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0888440650

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Intrepid Lover of Perfect Grace

The Life and Thought of Prosper of Aquitaine

By: Alexander Y. Hwang

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Intrepid Lover of Perfect Grace

The Life and Thought of Prosper of Aquitaine

By: Alexander Y. Hwang

Intrepid Lover of Perfect Grace provides students and scholars with the first biography of Prosper of Aquitaine (388-455) and the first book-length study in English of this important figure in the history of Christianity

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CUA Press

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0813216702

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Scotland Described

A Series of topographic Sketches

By: Alexander Murray

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Scotland Described

A Series of topographic Sketches

By: Alexander Murray

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

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410

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752555475

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Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus

Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century

By: Alexander O'Hara

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Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus

Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century

By: Alexander O'Hara

Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author, but also an historical figure in his own right. Born in the ancient Roman town of Susa in the foothills of the Italian Alps, he became a monk of Bobbio, the monastery founded by the Irish exile Columbanus, soon after his death in 615. He became the archivist and personal assistant to successive Bobbio abbots, travelled to Rome to obtain the first papal privilege of immunity, and served as a missionary priest on the northern borderlands of the Frankish kingdom. He spent the rest of his life in Merovingian Gaul as abbot of the double monastic community of Marchiennes-Hamage, where he wrote his Life of Columbanus, one of the most influential works of early medieval hagiography. This book, the first major study devoted to Jonas of Bobbio, his corpus of three saints' Lives, and the Columbanian familia, explores the development of the Columbanian monastic network and its relationship to its founder. The Life of Columbanus was written following a period of crisis within the Columbanian familia and it was in response to this crisis that the Bobbio community in Lombard Italy commissioned Jonas to write the work. Alexander O'Hara presents the Life of Columbanus as a subtle and clever critique of the changes and crises that had taken place in the monastic communities since Columbanus's death. It also considers the life of Jonas as reflecting many of the changing political, cultural, and religious circumstances of the seventh century, and his writings as instrumental in shaping new concepts of sanctity and community. The result of the study is a unique perspective on the early medieval Age of Saints and the monastic and political worlds of Merovingian Gaul and Lombard Italy in the seventh century.

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Oxford University Press

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0190858028

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Scyld and Scef

Expanding the Analogues

By: Alexander M. Bruce

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Scyld and Scef

Expanding the Analogues

By: Alexander M. Bruce

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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224

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Routledge

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1317944224

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On Early English Pronunciation with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer

Part V

By: Alexander J. Ellis

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On Early English Pronunciation with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer

Part V

By: Alexander J. Ellis

Reprint of the original, first published in 1889.

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954

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3846051217

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