Franks and Alamanni in the Merovingian period
Subtitle: an ethnographic perspective
By: edited by Ian Wood.
Contributors: Wood, I. N. 1950-; Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stress.
Series: Studies in historical archaeoethnology ;; v. 3
Publisher: Boydell Press; Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stress
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Woodbridge; Rochester, NY; San Marino
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
Subjects: Franks -- History -- To 768.; Alemanni (Germanic people) -- History.; Merovingians.; Germanic antiquities.; Ethnoarchaeology -- France.; Ethnoarchaeology -- Germany.; France -- Church history -- To 987.; Germany -- Church history -- To 843.
Description: The Franks were the most successful of all the barbarian peoples to establish a kingdom in the aftermath of the collapse of the West Roman Empire. Among their victims were their immediate neighbours, the Alamanni, who were swalowed up in the course of Frankish expansion. Partly because of the collapse of the Alaman kingdom, the Alamanni have received little attention from Anglophone scholars in the past, and this volume is therefore a welcome consideration of Franks and Alamanni from a series of perspectives, historical, archaeological, and linguistic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on a conference organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stress, which was held in San Marino from 2nd to 6th September 1995.