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After Rome's fall : narrators and sources of early medieval history : essays presented to Walter Goffart

Title: After Rome's fall : narrators and sources of early medieval history : essays presented to Walter Goffart / edited by Alexander Callander Murray.
Publication: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

xii, 388 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This richly documented collection of essays, commissioned from a distinguished group of historians, deals with a wide range of issues in the medieval and modern historiography of the early middle ages. Authors who receive extensive treatment are Cassiodorus, Gregory of Tours, Jonas of Orleans, Fredegar, Lupus of Ferrieres, Claudius of Turin, Benjamin of Tudela, and the brothers du Tillet; anonymous sources include the Royal Frankish Annals, the Tale of Rigrannus of Le Mans, and the Plan of St. Gall. Among the subjects treated at length are war, ethnicity, divine descent, gender, aristocratic power, Charlemagne, and Carolingian monasticism."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Middle Ages > Historiography

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: Walter Andre Goffart / Alexander Callander Murray -- Walter Goffart: Bibliography, 1957-[1997] / Alexander Callander Murray -- 1. Our Forefathers? Tribes, Peoples, and Nations in the Historiography of the Age of Migrations / Susan Reynolds -- 2. The Purposes of Cassiodorus' Variae / Andrew Gillett -- 3. Gregory of Tours and the Franks / Edward James -- 4. Heresy in Books I and II of Gregory of Tours' Historiae / Martin Heinzelmann -- 5. War, Warlords, and Christian Historians from the Fifth to the Seventh Century / Steven Muhlberger -- 6. Jonas, the Merovingians, and Pope Honorius: Diplomata and the Vita Columbani / Ian Wood -- 7. Post vocantur Merohingii: Fredegar, Merovech, and 'Sacral Kingship' / Alexander Callander Murray -- 8. Aristocratic Power in Eighth-Century Lombard Italy / Chris Wickham -- 9. Making a Difference in Eighth-Century Politics: The Daughters of Desiderius / Janet L. Nelson -- 10. The 'Reviser' Revisited: Another Look at the Alternative Version of the Annales Regni Francorum / Roger Collins -- 11. Pirenne and Charlemagne / Bernard S. Bachrach -- 12. Lupus of Ferrieres in His Carolingian Context / Thomas F. X. Noble -- 13. What Was Carolingian Monasticism? The Plan of St. Gall and the History of Monasticism / Richard E. Sullivan -- 14. The Chronicle of Claudius of Turin / Michael Idomir Allen -- 15. Monks and Canons in Carolingian Gaul: The Case of Rigrannus of Le Mans / Giles Constable -- 16. Jews, Pilgrimage, and the Christian Cult of Saints: Benjamin of Tudela and His Contemporaries / Joseph Shatzmiller -- 17. The Trojan Origins of the French and the Brothers Jean du Tillet / Elizabeth A. R. Brown.

ISBN

0802007791

LCCN

99215973

OCLC

41872445
ocm41872445

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries