Writing about the Merovingians in the early United States / by Gregory I. Halfond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halfond, Gregory I., author.

Series:

Arc medievalist.

Arc medievalist

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merovingians--Historiography.

Merovingians.

Merovingians--Study and teaching--United States--History--18th century.

Merovingians--Study and teaching--United States--History--19th century.

France--History--To 987--Historiography.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2023.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

In a young American republic seeking to define itself in relation to European cultural and political models past and present, it was assumed that the history of Europe's peoples could be tracked across time over the longue durée. From this perspective, even the barbarous long-haired kings of the distant Merovingian era helped to define the political and cultural identity of a France-and, indeed, a Europe-whose actions Americans recognized as relevant to their own republic. Americans saw medieval parallels not only in the actions of successive French regimes, but in contemporary transatlantic issues of anxiety, including the adjudication of claims of political legitimacy and the debate over the perpetuation of racial slavery. That early American writers located their own meanings in the history of Merovingian Francia is indicative of a less linear, and more diverse and transnational, historiography than previously recognized.

Contents:

Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Sources of Knowledge Chapter 1: American Writers and Merovingian Historiography: Reception and Engagement Chapter 2: Schoolbooks and the Teaching of Merovingian History Part 2: Locating Meaning in Merovingian History Chapter 3: National Character and Historical Parallelism in a Revolutionary Age Chapter 4: Adjudicating Political Legitimacy in the Early American Republic (1790-1816) Chapter 5: Early Medieval Unfreedom and the Debate over Slavery (1840-1860) Conclusion Bibliography Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Feb 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed May 6, 2024)

Other Format:

Print version: Halfond, Gregory I. Writing about the Merovingians in the Early United States

ISBN:

9781802701418

1802701419

OCLC:

1395234479