Diplomatic Mischief, Institutionalized Deception: Two Undated Merovingian Wills on Papyrus (Erminethrude’s Will and the Will of Idda’s Son) and a Group of Eleventh-Century Forgeries from the Abbey of Saint-Denis
Éloïse Lemay
This article proposes a date of ca. 650 for two Merovingian wills. Previous attempts to these wills have yielded estimates that range from 567 710. The are part group and Carolingian documents on papyrus with forgeries their backs were made in the second half eleventh century at abbey Saint-Denis, order support its privileges independence bishop Paris. We can observe crafted systemically, assure plausibility physical object, contents, provenance. presence system allows us fill information is missing about Since deal abrogation Bishop Landry’s episcopal rights over Saint-Denis 652, I posit should be dated 650, since forgers would found original matched this precise way.
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