The Merovingian Kingdoms: 450-751.

The Historian | January 1, 1994| | Copyright

The Merovingian Kingdoms 450-751. By lan Wood. (New York. Longman, 1994. Pp. 395. $28.95.)

This textbook is addressed to two separate audiences--students whose only language is English, and fellow researchers. lan Wood sets out to show that "no other state equalled the overall achievement of the Franks in the sixth, seventh and eighth centuries" (324). His argument depends on his construction of Merovingian history as the subject of a danatio memoriae by the dynasty that has eclipsed this period, the Carolingians. The thesis takes the form of a narrative history set ...

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