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The present volume is the first English translation of all twelve books of Fortunatus's poetry. The only poem omitted is the hexameter Vita Sancti Martini. Books 1 to 3 and 5 are addressed to figures in the church or deal with religious matters; Books 6 and 7 are addressed to secular figures. Book 4 stands apart and is made up entirely of epitaphs, including to church and secular figures, and Book 8 gathers poems dedicated to the Convent of the Holy Cross, its founder, Radegund, and its abbess, Agnes, along with a succession of poems to Fortunatus's chief patron, Gregory of Tours. Fortunatus adopts a variety of tones in his poetic corpus, but characteristically praise of his subject or addressee plays a prominent role. The subjects include the great and the good in Merovingian society, from substantial panegyrics of kings to less ambitious compositions on bishops or other clergy that rehearse their virtues, including charitable, preaching, and building activities. Preserved among Fortunatus's poems are eight letters in prose--nine, if the dedicatory letter to Gregory is included--and two prose treatises,the first, on the Lord's Prayer, incomplete.--

Merovingians --- Merovingians. --- Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, --- To 987. --- France --- France. --- History --- Merovingians - Poetry --- Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, - pproximately 540-approximately 600 - Translations into English --- France - History - To 987 - Poetry --- Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, - pproximately 540-approximately 600

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"The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabitants of Gaul (what now comprises France, southern Belgium, Luxembourg, Rhineland Germany and part of modern Switzerland), a mix of Gallo-Romans and Germanic arrivals under the political control of the Merovingian dynasty, sought to preserve, use, and reimagine the political, cultural, and religious power of ancient Rome while simultaneously forging the beginnings of what would become medieval European culture and identity"--

Antiquities. --- Merovingians --- Merovingians. --- History. --- To 987. --- Europe --- France --- France. --- Gaul --- History --- To 987 --- Archaeology --- Archaeology, Medieval --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Mérovingiens (dynastie) --- Histoire. --- Antiquités. --- Gaule --- Gallia --- Merovingians - History --- Merovingians - Antiquities --- Archaeology - France --- Archaeology - Belgium --- Archaeology - Gaul --- Gaul - History --- Gaul - Antiquities --- France - History - To 987

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local history [discipline] --- History of France --- anno 400-499 --- anno 500-1199 --- #gsdb8 --- France --- History --- To 987 --- Histoire. --- Classical Greek literature --- Roman history --- Italy --- Historiography

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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.

Merovingians --- Study and teaching --- History --- France --- United States. --- History To 987 Historiography. --- Gaul. --- Merovingian Francia. --- barbarians. --- early France. --- young American republic. --- Historiography.

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Monasticism and religious orders --- Monachisme et ordres religieux --- History --- Sources --- Histoire --- Jean, --- Abbaye de Gorze (Gorze, France) --- Benedictines --- Biography. --- Abbots --- Johannes, --- Benedictines. --- France --- France. --- Church history --- Sources. --- Abbots - France - Gorze - Biography --- Iohannes ab. Gorziensis --- Jean, - Abbot of Gorze, - -974 --- Jean, - de Saint-Arnoul, - -approximately 984. - Vita Iohannis Gorzie coenobii abbatis --- France - History - To 987 - Sources --- France - Church history - To 987 - Sources