Research Catalog

Title

East and west in the early Middle Ages : the Merovingian kingdoms in Mediterranean perspective / edited by Stefan Esders, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, Yaniv Fox, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Yitzhak Hen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Laury Sarti, University of Freiburg, Germany.

Publication

• Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Esders, Stefan
• Fox, Yaniv, 1975-
• Hen, Yitzhak
• Sarti, Laury
• Minerva-Gentner Symposium (2014 : Berlin, Germany)

Description

xvi, 360 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

From their crystallisation in the late fifth century to their ultimate decline in the eighth, the Merovingian kingdoms were a product of a vibrant Mediterranean society with both a cultural past and a dynamic and ongoing dialogue between the member communities. By bringing together the scholarship of historians, archaeologists, art historians, and manuscript researchers, this volume examines the Merovingian world's Mediterranean connections. The Franks' cultural horizons spanned not only the Latin-speaking world, but also the Byzantine Empire, northern Europe, Sassanid Persia, and, after the seventh century, a quickly ascendant Islamic culture. Traces of a constant movement of people and cultural artefacts through this world are ubiquitous. As simultaneous consumers, adapters, and disseminators of culture, the degree to which the Merovingian kingdoms were thought to engage with their neighbours is re-evaluated as this volume analyses written accounts, archaeological findings and artefacts to provide new perspectives on Merovingian wide-ranging relations.

Alternative Title

Merovingian kingdoms in Mediterranean perspective

Subjects

• Merovingians
• France
• Mediterranean Region
• History
• International relations
• Merovingians > France > History
• France > Relations > Mediterranean Region
• Mediterranean Region > Relations > France

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Expanding political horizons -- Archaeological perspectives on communication and exchange between the Merovingians and the Eastern Mediterranean / Jörg Drauschke -- Anxiously looking east: Burgundian foreign policy on the eve of the reconquest / Yaniv Fox -- Pax inter utramque gentem: the Merovingians, Byzantium and the history of Frankish identity / Helmut Reimitz -- Patterns of intensification: the 580s -- Cultural transmission caught in the act: Gregory of Tours and the relics of St Sergius / Phillip Wynn -- Hermenegild's rebellion and conversion: Merovingian and Byzantine connections / Wolfram Drews -- Early Byzantine church silver offered for the eternal rest of Framarich and Karilos: evidence of 'the army of heroic men' raised by Tiberius II Constantine? / Benjamin Fourlas -- Money for nothing? Franks, Byzantines and Lombards in the sixth and seventh centuries / Andreas Fischer -- The Pope as a Mediterranean player -- The papacy and the Frankish bishops in the sixth century / Sebastian Scholz -- A one-way ticket to Francia: Constantinople, Rome and Northern Gaul in the mid seventh century / Charles Mériaux -- The digression on Pope Martin I in the life of Eligius of Noyon / Laury Sarti -- Perceptions of Rome and the papacy in late Merovingian Francia: the Cononian recension of the Liber pontificalis / Rosamond McKitterick -- Religious and cultural exchange -- Relocation to the west: the relic of the true cross in Poitiers / Galit Noga-Banai -- A generic Mediterranean: hagiography in the early Middle Ages / Jamie Kreiner -- Defensor of Ligugé's Liber scintillarum and the migration of knowledge / Yitzhak Hen -- Willibald in the holy places / Ora Limor -- Rethinking the late Merovingians -- 'Great security prevailed in both east and west': the Merovingian kingdoms and the 6th Ecumenical Council (680/1) / Stefan Esders -- In the circle of the Bishop of Bourges: Bern 611 and late Merovingian culture / David Ganz -- Contact with the Eastern Mediterranean in the late Merovingian period / Ian Wood -- 'Merovingian' illuminated manuscripts and their links with the eastern Mediterranean world / Laurence Nees -- 'Sons of ishmael, turn back!' / Ann Chrystis -- Carolingian kingship, apostolic authority and imperial recognition: Pippin the Short's 'Italienpolitik' and the quest for royal legitimacy / Erik Goosmann.

Call Number

JFE 19-9031

ISBN

• 9781107187153
• 110718715X

LCCN

2018048889

OCLC

1083152242

Title

East and west in the early Middle Ages : the Merovingian kingdoms in Mediterranean perspective / edited by Stefan Esders, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, Yaniv Fox, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Yitzhak Hen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Laury Sarti, University of Freiburg, Germany.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Esders, Stefan, editor.

Fox, Yaniv, 1975- editor.

Hen, Yitzhak, editor.

Sarti, Laury, editor.

Minerva-Gentner Symposium (2014 : Berlin, Germany)

Research Call Number

JFE 19-9031