After Rome's fall : narrators and sources of early medieval history : essays presented to Walter Goffart
Alexander Murray
This richly documented collection of essays, commissioned from a distinguished group historians, deals with wide range issues in the medieval and modern historiography early middle ages. Authors who receive extensive treatment are Cassiodorus, Gregory Tours, Jonas Bobbio, Fredegar, Lupus Ferri|res, Claudius Turin, Benjamin Tudela, brothers du Tillet; anonymous sources include Royal Frankish Annals, Tale Rigrannus Le Mans, Plan St Gall. Among subjects treated at length war, ethnicity, divine descent, gender, aristocratic power, Charlemagne, Carolingian monasticism. The volume is presented honour work Walter Goffart, whose scholarship has had profound impact on our present understanding character west its historical writing.
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