The Merovingian kingdoms and the Mediterranean world : revisiting the sources /: revisiting the sources. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stefan Esders, Yitzhak Hen, Pia Lucas and Tamar Rotman.
• Editors: Esders, Stefan; Hen, Yitzhak; Lucas, Pia; Rotman, Tamar
• Contents: AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsList of AbbreviationsMaps Introduction, Pia Lucas and Tamar Rotman Part 1: The wider world: Setting the context of the post-Roman world1. History, geography and the notion of mare nostrum in the early medieval WestYitzhak Hen 2. True differences: Gregory of Tours' account of the Council of Mâcon (585)Helmut Reimitz Part 2: Mediterranean ties and Merovingian diplomacy3. East and West from a Visigothic perspective: How and why were Frankish brides negotiated in the late sixth century Anna Gehler-Rachunek 4. Friendship and diplomacy in the Histories of Gregory of ToursHope Williard 5. Private records of official diplomacy: The Franco-Byzantine letters in the Austrasian Epistolar CollectionBruno Dumezil 6. The language of sixth-century Frankish diplomacyYaniv Fox Part 3: Bridging the Seas: Law and religion 7. Mediterranean Homesick Blues: Human trafficking in the Merovingian legesLukas Bothe 8. The Fifth Council of Orléans and the reception of the Three Chapters controversy in Merovingian GaulTill Stüber 9. Reconciling disturbed sacred space: The ordo for 'reconciling an altar where a murder has been committed' in the Sacramentary of Gellone in its cultural context.Rob Meens 10. Imitation and rejection of Eastern practices in Merovingian Gaul: Gregory of Tours and Vulfilaic the Stylite of TrierTamar Rotman Part 4: Shifting Perspectives: Emperors, tributes and propaganda11. Magnus et verus christianus: The portrayal of Emperor Tiberius II in Gregory of ToursPia Lucas 12. When contemporary history is caught up by the immediate present: Fredegar's proleptic depiction of Emperor Constans II Stefan Esders 13. Byzantium, the Merovingians, and the hog: A passage of Theophanes' Chronicle revisitedFederico Montinaro Conclusion, Yitzhak Hen and Stefan Esders Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 944.013; Merovingians -- France -- History; France -- Relations -- Mediterranean Region; Mediterranean Region -- Relations -- France
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350048409; 9781350048393
• Related ISBNs: 9781350048386
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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