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The building projects and the Histories of Gregory of Tours
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 159-184, May 2022., 2022 This article offers a fresh perspective on the life and works of the sixth‐century bishop Gregory of Tours by analysing Gregory’s magnum opus, the Histories, alongside a frequently overlooked aspect of his episcopal career: his restoration of the cathedral church of Tours and St Martin’s basilica following their devastation by fire in the time of his ...
John Merrington
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The Carolingian local ecclesia as a ‘temple society’?
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 535-554, November 2021., 2021 This article assesses the question to what extent the model of a ‘temple society’ can be fruitfully employed as a tool of analysis for the Carolingian ecclesia, by which we mean not only the rich, well‐endowed churches, but also the small, local ones.
Steffen Patzold, Carine van Rhijn
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 283-304, August 2021., 2021 Relations between southern Britain and the Merovingian kingdoms in the sixth and early seventh centuries have largely been understood in terms of a Frankish hegemony extending across the Channel. However, a re‐examination of the small group of written sources on which this idea is based shows that they do not necessarily imply such overlordship.
Irene Bavuso
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Die Nachbenennung bei den Merowingern zwischen familiärem Selbstverständnis und politischer Instrumentalisierung [PDF]
, 2014 The Merovingian Practice of Naming after Relatives: Family Traditions and Politics. – The name-giving habits in the Early Middle Ages are often connected with the traditions of a kin group.
Becher, Matthias
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, 2022 peer reviewedMetabolic models are typically characterized by a large number of parameters. Traditionally, metabolic control analysis is applied to differential equation-based models to investigate the sensitivity of predictions to parameters.
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The 'Prehistory' of Gregory of Tours: An Analysis of Books I-IV of Gregory's Histories [PDF]
, 2010 This thesis is concerned with the structure and agenda of the first four books of Gregory of Toursâ Histories. Building on the idea that it was the death of Gregoryâ s patron, king Sigibert, at the end of Book IV, that stimulated the writing of the ...
Smith, Adrian
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Queenship, intrigue and blood-feud: deciphering the causes of the Merovingian civil wars, 561-613 [PDF]
, 2013 The Frankish civil wars of AD 561-613 were a series of devastating encounters involving the four sons of Chlothar I and their descendants. While no party was guiltless during this period, modern scholars have tended to focus on two prominent Queens ...
Craft, Brandon Taylor
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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 21-37, March 2026.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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Tractoriae and the logistics of Carolingian entourages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 158-182, May 2025.Entourages played a central role in Carolingian politics and military organization. Yet historians have neglected the important question of how kings and magnates supplied their retinues. This article investigates that topic by examining an overlooked genre of evidence: tractoriae or royal letters of requisition.
Eric J. Goldberg
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