The Merovingian accounting documents of Tours: form and function
Shusei Sato
A little fewer than thirty Merovingian accounting documents which originated from the Abbey of St Martin Tours, though fragmentary, provide for historians early medieval Europe an unexpected tool with latter could cast a new light over actual conditions in tribute collection and management system fiscal administration abbey. The present article asks some basic questions about these hope casting further on their form function: did take while they had been used dues? At stage collecting procedure served abbey as keeping records? When was each document prepared? In historical context be placed birth abbey? All question are important understanding history Martin's Tours use general era.
Early Medieval Europe