Transportation, Communication, and the Movement of Peoples in the Frankish Kingdom, ca. 500â900 C.E
Gregory I. Halfond
Abstract As historians and archeologists continue to debate the volume of commercial traffic in Western Europe following disappearance Roman imperial rule, it has become increasingly clear that an infrastructure transportation communication continued facilitate travel movement people this period. This is particularly apparent Frankish Kingdom between sixth tenth centuries. Relying a substantial degree on technology routes inherited from past, Franks employed for purposes dictated by entirely contemporary concerns. Recent scholarship demonstrated conclusively commerce was far only motivation Kingdom, diversity means motives indicative mobile society.
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