The Merovingian kingdoms, 450-751 /
"The centuries immediately following the collapse of Roman rule in what is now France are an extraordinarily tangled time that is frequently dismissed as no more than a chaotic prelude to Charlemagne and the Carolingian Dynasty. Ian Wood's aim is to demonstrate that there was more to Merov...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Constructing Merovingian History
- 1. The Barbarians in Gaul. The coming of the barbarians. The Visigoths. The Burgundians. The settlement of the barbarians. Imperial weakness. The last emperors. The creation of the Visigothic kingdom
- 2. Literary Continuity and Discontinuity: Late-Fifth- and Sixth-Century Culture. Sidonius Apollinaris and the last days of the Empire. Asceticism and culture in the fifth and sixth centuries. Letter-writing in the sixth century. Gregory of Tours and the decline of culture
- 3. The Establishment of Merovingian Power: the Franks before 537. The Trojan legend of the Franks. The early Franks. The long-haired kings. Childeric I. Clovis. Theuderic, the Danes and the Thuringians. The end of the Burgundian kingdom and the Auvergne campaign.
- 4. Kings and Kingdoms: the Structure of the Realm in the Sixth Century. The divisions of the kingdom. Merovingian succession. The government of the Teilreiche. Royal resources. Royal ideology
- 5. The Limits of Ecclesiastical Power: Episcopal Jurisdiction and Politics. Diocesan organization. The Christian community. Bishops and saint cults. Episcopal jurisdiction. Episcopal elections. Bishops and local society: the Auvergne. Theodore of Marseilles. Gregory and Tours
- 6. Stability in Disunity: the Civil Wars of the Sixth Century. Family politics 511-613. The causes of war. The Gundovald affair. Gundovald and the opposition to Childebert II. Kings and magnates. Politics in Aquitaine
- 7. Laws and Law-Codes: Merovingian Legislation. Childebert II. Merovingian legislation.
- Lex Salica. Revisions and ratifications of Lex Salica. The Pactus Legis Salicae and the west Frankish kingdom. The laws of the three kingdoms. Lex Ribvaria and the Laws of the Alamans and Bavarians. Legislation and the aristocracy
- 8. Royal Women: Fredegund, Brunhild and Radegund. Merovingian princesses. Merovingian queens. Fredegund. Royal widows. Brunhild. Holy retirement: Radegund
- 9. Redefining the Kingdom: Chlothar II, Dagobert I, Sigibert III and Clovis II. The emergence of Chlothar II. Burgundy and Austrasia. Royal politics, 622-30. Desiderius of Cahors and the Merovingian court. The court in action. Chlothar II, Dagobert I and the Church. Sigibert III and Clovis II
- 10. The Merovingians and their Neighbours. Brittany. Frisia and the lands to the east of the Rhine.
- Italy. The Visigoths. Gascony. The English
- 11. The Place of the Monasteries: Politics and the Religious Life, 613-64. The development of a monastic tradition. Royal monasteries. 'Columbanian' monasticism. Fursey, Foilan and the Pippinids. The impact of Luxeuil: evangelization and reform. Monasticism and the royal court in the seventeenth century. Piety, theology and politics: the Vita Columbani. Balthild and monastic immunity
- 12. Land, Wealth and the Economy. Charters and immunities. Merovingian wills. Bertram of Le Mans. Abbo of Provence. Labour. St Wandrille. The Merovingian economy. Coinage. Treasure
- 13. The Failure of Consensus: Merovingian Politics from 656-80. The Grimoald coup and its aftermath. Chlothar III, Childeric II and the western kingdom, 664-75.
- The return of Ebroin. Dagobert II and Austrasia. The Merovingians and aristocratic faction in the age of Ebroin
- 14. The Culture of Churchmen: Education, Theology and Book-Production in the Later Seventh Century. The knowledge of administrators. Bishops and their writings. Merovingian theology and Rome: Bonitus and Amandus. Hagiographic and historical writing in the seventh century. Merovingian books. The state of the Merovingian Church in the late seventh century. Northumbria and Merovingian Church culture
- 15. The Checks on Ambition: Merovingian Politics, 680-721. The age of Pippin II. The Liber Historiae Francorum, the continuations of Fredegar and the Annales Mettenses Priores. Warattonids and Pippinids. The evidence of the charters, 675-711.
- Pippin II and the Merovingian Church. The opposition to Pippin II. The crisis of 714-17. Chilperic II and his allies. The emergence of Charles Martel
- 16. Towards Reunification: Wars and Politics, 721-751. 'Carolingian' sources and Charles Martel. The heirs of Savaric: Eucherius of Orleans and Ainmar of Auxerre. The abbots of St Wandrille. Charles and the lands of the Church. Provence: Abbo of Novalesa and Maurontus. Eudo, the Saracens and Aquitaine. The peoples to the east of the Rhine. The achievement of Charles Martel. Carloman and Pippin III. Gripho and Bavaria. Pippin III and the deposition of Childeric III
- 17. The Northern Emporia: Quentovic, Dorestad and the 'Sceatta' Economy. Quentovic and Dorestad under the Carolingians. Merovingian Quentovic.
- Dorestad in the Merovingian period. The chronology of the 'sceattas'. The 'sceatta' economy and the early medieval state
- 18. Mission Accomplished: the Merovingian Church East of the Rhine. The Life of Boniface. Arbeo of Freising and the Bavarian Church. Paganism, heresy and Church reform. Christianization in the Merovingian kingdom. Wilfrid and the disciples of Ecgbert. Willibrord
- Conclusion: The Merovingian Achievement
- Genealogies of the Merovingian Family
- Prosopography of the Merovingian Family
- Map 1. The division of the Merovingian Kingdom in 511
- Map 2. The division of the Merovingian Kingdom in 561
- Map 3. The division of the Merovingian Kingdom in 567
- Map 4. Francia and the territories to the east of the Rhine.