TY - BOOK ID - 65505347 TI - The Oxford handbook of the Merovingian world AU - Effros, Bonnie AU - Moreira, Isabel PY - 2020 SN - 9780190234188 0190234180 PB - New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Antiquities. KW - Merovingians KW - Merovingians. KW - History. KW - To 987. KW - Europe KW - France KW - France. KW - Gaul KW - History KW - To 987 KW - Archaeology KW - Archaeology, Medieval KW - Antiquities KW - Antiquités KW - Mérovingiens (dynastie) KW - Histoire. KW - Antiquités. KW - Gaule KW - Gallia KW - Merovingians - History KW - Merovingians - Antiquities KW - Archaeology - France KW - Archaeology - Belgium KW - Archaeology - Gaul KW - Gaul - History KW - Gaul - Antiquities KW - France - History - To 987 KW - Antiquités KW - Mérovingiens (dynastie) KW - Antiquités. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:65505347 AB - "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"-- ER -