After Rome's Fall : : Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History / / ed. by Alexander Callander Murray.

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 who receive extensive treatment are Cassiodorus, Gregory of Tours, Jonas of Bobbio, Fredeg...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
MAP AND FIGURES --
PREFACE --
ABBREVIATIONS --
Introduction: Walter Andre Goffart --
Walter Goffart: Bibliography, 1957-[ 1997] --
1. Our Forefathers? Tribes, Peoples, and Nations in the Historiography of the Age of Migrations --
2. The Purposes of Cassiodorus' Variae --
3. Gregory of Tours and the Franks --
4. Heresy in Books I and II of Gregory of Tours' Historiae --
5. War, Warlords, and Christian Historians from the Fifth to the Seventh Century --
6. Jonas, the Merovingians, and Pope Honorius: Diplomata and the Vita Columbani --
7. Post vocantur Merohingii: Fredegar, Merovech, and 'Sacral Kingship' --
8. Aristocratic Power in Eighth-Century Lombard Italy --
9. Making a Difference in Eighth-Century Politics: The Daughters of Desiderius --
10. The 'Reviser' Revisited: Another Look at the Alternative Version of the Annales Regni Francorum --
11. Pirenne and Charlemagne --
12. Lupus of Ferrieres in His Carolingian Context --
13. What Was Carolingian Monasticism? The Plan of St Gall and the History of Monasticism --
14. The Chronicle of Claudius of Turin --
15. Monks and Canons in Carolingian Gaul: The Case of Rigrannus of Le Mans --
16. Jews, Pilgrimage, and the Christian Cult of Saints: Benjamin of Tudela and His Contemporaries --
17. The Trojan Origins of the French and the Brothers Jean du Tillet --
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Summary: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 who receive extensive treatment are Cassiodorus, Gregory of Tours, Jonas of Bobbio, Fredegar, Lupus of Ferri¦res, Claudius of Turin, Benjamin of Tudela, and the brothers du Tillet; anonymous sources include the Royal Frankish Annals, the Tale of Rigrannus of Le Mans, and the Plan of St Gall. Among the subjects treated at length are war, ethnicity, divine descent, gender, aristocratic power, Charlemagne, and Carolingian monasticism. The volume is presented in honour of the work of Walter Goffart, whose scholarship has had a profound impact on our present understanding of the character of the early medieval west and its historical writing.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781442670693
9783110490947
DOI:10.3138/9781442670693
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Alexander Callander Murray.