After Rome's fall
Subtitle: narrators and sources of early medieval history : essays presented to Walter Goffart
By: edited by Alexander Callander Murray.
Contributors: Murray, Alexander C., 1946-; Goffart, Walter A.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Middle Ages -- Historiography.
Description: "This richly documented collection of essays, commissioned from a distinguished group of historians, deals with a wide range of issues in the medieval and modern historiography of the early middle ages. Authors who receive extensive treatment are Cassiodorus, Gregory of Tours, Jonas of Orleans, Fredegar, Lupus of Ferrieres, Claudius of Turin, Benjamin of Tudela, and the brothers du Tillet; anonymous sources include the Royal Frankish Annals, the Tale of Rigrannus of Le Mans, and the Plan of St. Gall. Among the subjects treated at length are war, ethnicity, divine descent, gender, aristocratic power, Charlemagne, and Carolingian monasticism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.