James T. Palmer (Scotland University of St Andrews)

Merovingian Worlds

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an essential, up-to-date guide to European history c. 450â 751. It will be critical reading for students taking medieval survey courses and more specialist modules on the period. It will benefit scholars and teachers by introducing the technicalities of the evidence and how to interpret it.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781108737593
• ISBN-10: 1108737595
• Artikelnr.: 70609203

Autorenporträt

James T. Palmer is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews. His previous books include Anglo-Saxons in a Frankish World 690-900 (2009), The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages (2014), and Early Medieval Hagiography (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. History and its historians
2. Identities and status
3. Power in the early Merovingian world (c. 450-613)
4. The rise of the shadow kings (613-751)
5. Economies, people and nature
6. Literacy and culture
7. The Frankish churches
8. Religions and the wider world
Epilogue.