The First Section of Annales Mettenses Priores (The Earlier Annals of Metz)
Paul Fouracre|Richard A. Gerberding
The Annales Mettenses Priores open with an account of Pippin II. Even though he was a secular figure, their treatment him often resembles the way in which hagiographers portrayed saintly subjects. Although Charles Martel's early life, and indeed his whole career, are expressly guided by God's will, nowhere is adorned most Christian virtues that holy ancestors had sported. In Priores's pages they treat many political events late Merovingian age engaging detail, were actually written more than half century after Carolingians ursurped throne. Be as it may, first section clearly far historical justification for traditional Frankish system succession division any idea united empire.
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