East and west in the early Middle Ages : the Merovingian kingdoms in Mediterranean perspective / edited by Stefan Esders, Freie Universität, Berlin ; Yaniv Fox, Bar-Ilan University, Israel ; Yitzhak Hen, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel ; Laury Sarti, Freie Universität Berlin.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Esders, Stefan, editor.

Fox, Yaniv, 1975- editor.

Hen, Yitzhak, editor.

Sarti, Laury, editor.

Conference Name:

Minerva-Gentner Symposium (2014 : Berlin, Germany)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merovingians--France--History.

Merovingians.

International relations.

Relations.

History.

France--Relations--Mediterranean Region.

France.

Mediterranean Region--Relations--France.

Mediterranean Region.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Merovingian kingdoms in Mediterranean perspective

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2019]

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.

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 century / 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. A testimony to late seventh-century knowledge exchange between east and west? / 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 (680/81) / 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 of Pippin the Short's 'Italienpolitik' and the quest for royal legitimacy / Erik Goosmann.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781107187153

110718715X

OCLC:

1083152242

Publisher Number:

99981319643