The Merovingian Kingdoms and the Mediterranean World: Revisiting the Sources

by Ian Wood

Book Overview

This book explores the Merovingian kingdoms in Gaul within a broader Mediterranean context. Their politics and culture have mostly been interpreted in the past through a narrow local perspective, but as the papers in this volume clearly demonstrate, the Merovingian kingdoms had complicated and multi-layered political, religious, and socio-cultural relations with their Mediterranean counterparts, from Visigothic Spain in the West to the Byzantine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526629682
• ISBN13: 9781526629685
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"