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Free Download James T. Palmer, "Merovingian Worlds "
English | ISBN: 1108737595 | 2024 | 314 pages | PDF | 13 MB
The Merovingian Kingdoms (c. 450-751) dominated much of what is now France, Belgium, and Germany, and were the most powerful and long-lived of the states that transformed the inheritance of Rome after the Crisis of the Fifth Century. Yet they often remain representative of an imagined ‘Dark Age’, in which civility was eroded by migration, violence, illiteracy, superstition, and a retreat from globality. Through a deep exploration of manuscripts, charters, and burials, Merovingian Worlds offers a fresh account of the period, outlining its complexities, diversity and creativity. This was a world built on dynamic political, socio-economic, cultural, and religious interactions, and shaped by its wide-ranging connections from Britain and Ireland to Byzantium and beyond. The book provides a critical introduction to the rich source material and the modern debates that shaped our perception of Western Europe after the Fall of Rome.

Free Download Isabel Moreira, "Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul"
English | ISBN: 0801436613 | 2000 | 288 pages | PDF | 31 MB
In early medieval Europe, dreams and visions were believed to reveal divine information about Christian life and the hereafter. No consensus existed, however, as to whether all Christians, or only a spiritual elite, were entitled to have a relationship of this sort with the supernatural. Drawing on a rich variety of sources―histories, hagiographies, ascetic literature, and records of dreams at saints’ shrines―Isabel Moreira provides insight into a society struggling to understand and negotiate its religious visions.

Free Download Alexander Callander Murray, "From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: A Reader"
English | 1999 | pages: 697 | ISBN: 1442600950 | PDF | 112,6 mb
Including such remarkable accounts as Attila the Hun’s meeting with the Pope, Queen Balthild’s life, and Gregory of Tours’ vivid descriptions of what happens when daily life is enmeshed with politics, From Roman to Merovingian Gaul documents events that are both remarkable in themselves and that demonstrate what made this era of history distinct.