The Exemplar Pactionis of the Kings Gunthram and Childebert II in the History of the Franks of Gregory of Tours: the “Oldest Treaty of France” or the “Annual Record”?
Mikhail Zemlyakov
The article deals with the most important fragment of History Francs Gregory Tours, which is sometimes called “oldest treaty France”. It an agreement concluded by Merovingian kings Gunthram and Childebert II in Andelot 587. singularity this pact lies facts that it was added unusual context early medieval chronicle found nowhere else collections law 6th century. Discovering similarities between form content Andelot, acts public private forms Middle Ages, author applies analysis formulary to text annual record compares capitularies Carolingian era. Deriving clauses protocol, operative part (corpus) eschatocol from entire one can make assumption Tours actually present at time its compilation attestation, also had copy writing Francs.
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