Before France and Germany
Subtitle: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 25, 1988
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780195044584
First sentence: Around A.D. 30, a Roman merchant named Gargilius Secundus purchased a cow from Stelus, a barbarian who lived near the present-day Dutch town of Franeker.