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Merovingians [Dynasty] --- Carolingians [Dynasty] --- anno 1100-1199

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Obwohl zum Plündern in der Merowingerzeit viele Quellenaussagen vorhanden sind, wurden diese in der deutschsprachigen Mediävistik bisher noch nicht systematisch untersucht. Ein Grund hierfür ist die Theoriebezogenheit der Forschung und die damit verbundene Terminologie: Sie prägte mit ihren Implikationen die Forschungsperspektiven stärker vor. In der vorliegenden Studie werden daher analytische Termini mit einer deskriptiven Funktion verwendet. Damit werden abseits älterer Begriffe und Konzepte wahrscheinliche und plausible Annahmen expliziert. Gefragt wird nach der Relevanz des Plünderns für das Organisieren von Folgeleistungen in Gallien zwischen 451 und 592. Das Plündern ist als eine sozioökonomische Praktik des Erwerbens von materiellen Gütern und Ressourcen erfasst. Die Ergebnisse der analytisch und quellennah angelegten Studie bieten nicht nur aus wirtschafts- und sozialgeschichtlicher Perspektive neue Einblicke: Die methodologischen Reflektionen zur Terminologie und zum geschichtswissenschaftlichen Arbeiten sind auch über das Thema und den hier untersuchten Zeitraum hinaus relevant. The author investigates the relevance of the socio-economic practice of plunder for organizing subsequent economic activities in Gaul from 451 to 592. The study offers new insights into economic and social history. In addition, methodological reflections about terminology and historiographical works disclose new perspectives for historical research beyond the express theme and period.

Economics --- Economic sociology --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociology --- Sociological aspects. --- Social aspects --- Merovingians. --- Pillage --- Gaul --- History --- Gaul, 5th century, 6th century.

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Following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the problem of how to conceptualize and administer their regional churches. As Gregory Halfond shows, the bishops of post-Roman Gaul oversaw a transformation in the relationship between church and state. He shows that by constituting themselves as a corporate body, the Gallic episcopate was able to wield significant political influence on local, regional, and kingdom-wide scales.Gallo-Frankish bishops were conscious of their corporate membership in an exclusive order, the rights and responsibilities of which were consistently being redefined and subsequently expressed through liturgy, dress, physical space, preaching, and association with cults of sanctity. But as Halfond demonstrates, individual bishops, motivated by the promise of royal patronage to provide various forms of service to the court, often struggled, sometimes unsuccessfully, to balance their competing loyalties. However, even the resulting conflicts between individual bishops did not, he shows, fundamentally undermine the Gallo-Frankish episcopate's corporate identity or integrity. Ultimately, Halfond provides a far more subtle and sophisticated understanding of church-state relations across the early medieval period.

France --- Episcopacy --- Merovingians. --- Church and state --- Bishops --- Politics and government --- History. --- Political activity --- Temporal power. --- Church history --- church history, late antiquity, Franks, Francia.

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Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discussion of this mortuary evidence. Tracing the history of Merovingian archaeology within its cultural and intellectual context for the first time, Effros exposes biases and prejudices that have colored previous interpretations of these burial sites and assesses what contemporary archaeology can tell us about the Frankish kingdoms. Working at the intersection of history and archaeology, and drawing from anthropology and art history, Effros emphasizes in particular the effects of historical events and intellectual movements on French and German antiquarian and archaeological studies of these grave goods. Her discussion traces the evolution of concepts of nationhood, race, and culture and shows how these concepts helped shape an understanding of the past. Effros then turns to contemporary multidisciplinary methodologies and finds that we are still limited by the types of information that can be readily gleaned from physical and written sources of Merovingian graves. For example, since material evidence found in the graves of elite families and particularly elite men is more plentiful and noteworthy, mortuary goods do not speak as directly to the conditions in which women and the poor lived. The clarity and sophistication with which Effros discusses the methods and results of European archaeology is a compelling demonstration of the impact of nationalist ideologies on a single discipline and of the struggle toward the more pluralistic vision that has developed in the post-war years.

Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Merovingians --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- France --- Gaul --- Gallia --- Gaule --- History --- Antiquities. --- Social life and customs. --- Funeral customs and rites. --- Merovingians - Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Funeral rites and ceremonies - Gaul --- Gaul - Social life and customs --- Gaul - Antiquities --- France - History - To 987 --- ancient world. --- anthropology. --- antiquity. --- archaeology. --- aregund. --- art history. --- burial. --- celtic world. --- ceremonies. --- childeric. --- class. --- customs. --- dark ages. --- death. --- dying. --- early middle ages. --- europe. --- excavations. --- france. --- frankish kingdoms. --- french history. --- funerals. --- funerary. --- gaul. --- grave artifacts. --- graves. --- history. --- medieval history. --- medieval society. --- medieval. --- merovingian archaeology. --- merovingian graves. --- merovingians. --- monarchy. --- mortuary. --- nation. --- nonfiction. --- race. --- religion. --- rites. --- royalty. --- rulers. --- saint brice. --- social science. --- sociology. --- tombs.

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This study is the first to attempt a thorough investigation of the activities of the Columbanian congregation, which played a significant role in the development of Western monasticism. This was a new form of rural monasticism, which suited the needs and aspirations of a Christian elite eager to express its power and prestige in religious terms. Contrary to earlier studies, which viewed Columbanus and his disciples primarily as religious innovators, this book focuses on the political, economic, and familial implications of monastic patronage and on the benefits elite patrons stood to reap. While founding families were in a privileged position to court royal favour, monastic patronage also exposed them to violent reprisals from competing factions. Columbanian monasteries were not serene havens of contemplation, but rather active foci of power and wealth, and quickly became integral elements of early medieval statecraft.

Monasticism and religious orders --- Merovingians. --- Monachisme et ordres religieux --- Mérovingiens --- History --- Histoire --- Columban, --- France --- Church history. --- Histoire religieuse --- Merovingians --- Church history --- Ordres monastiques et religieux --- Social aspects. --- Royaume des Francs --- Politics and government --- Mérovingiens --- Monachism --- Monastic orders --- Monasticism and religious orders for men --- Monasticism and religious orders of men --- Orders, Monastic --- Orders, Religious --- Religious orders --- Brotherhoods --- Christian communities --- Brothers (Religious) --- Friars --- Monks --- Superiors, Religious --- Colombano, --- Columba, --- Columbanus, --- Monasticism and religious orders - France - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Gaule méronvingienne --- Columbanus ab. Luxoviensis et Bobiensis --- Monachisme --- Columban, - Saint, - 543-615 --- France - History - To 987 --- France - Church history --- Gaule mérovingienne