The Frankish World: 750-900.

The Historian | June 22, 1998| | Copyright

The Frankish World, 750-900. By Janet L. Nelson. (London and Rio Grande, OH: Hambledon Press, 1996. Pp. xxxi, 256. $60.00.)

This is the second volume of Janet Nelson's essays to be reprinted and published by Hambledon Press. The first volume, Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe, appeared in 1986 and contained seventeen essays published between 1971 and 1983. The present volume makes available thirteen more studies, originally published between 1986 and 1993. Since several of these essays were first contained in Festschriften, their appearance here makes them available ...

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