The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World

Bonnie Effros is the Chaddock Chair of Economic and Social History at the University of Liverpool. She has published widely on the Merovingian period both from the perspective of burial remains and rituals and the archaeologists who excavated its remains. Her current research interrogates the work of nineteenth-century archaeologists who pursued the remains of the martyrs in France, Italy, and Tunisia. Her most recent monographs are Uncovering the Germanic Past: Merovingian Archaeology in France (1830-1914) (Oxford 2012) and Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa (Cornell 2018).

Isabel Moreira is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Utah. She publishes on history and religion in late antiquity with a focus on the Merovingian period. Her current research is on Merovingian rings, ghosts in the early middle ages, and a cultural biography of Queen Balthild. She has published two monographs: Heaven's Purge: Purgatory in Late Antiquity (Oxford 2010) and Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority (Cornell 2000).

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INTRODUCTION
1. Bonnie Effros (Liverpool) and Isabel Moreira (Utah) - "Pushing the Boundaries of the Merovingian World"

MEROVINGIAN HISTORIOGAPHY AND THE HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY
2. Paul Fouracre (Manchester) - "From Gaul to Francia: The Impact of the Merovingians"
3. Agn?s Graceffa (Paris/CNRS) - "Writing the History of Merovingian Gaul: An Historiographical Survey"
4. Bonnie Effros (Liverpool) - "Two Centuries of Excavating Merovingian-Era Cemeteries"

EXPRESSING IDENTITY
5. Magali Coumart (Brest) - "Transformations of Identities: Barbarians and Romans in the Merovingian Realm"
6. Wolfram Drews (M?nster) - "Migrants and Minorities in Merovingian Gaul"
7. Andrea Czermak (Oxford) - "Human Remains and What They Can Tell Us About Status and Identity in the Merovingian Period"
8. Guy Halsall (York) - "Gender in Merovingian Gau"
9. Emilie Perez (Tahiti) - "Children's Lives and Deaths in Merovingian Gaul"

STRUCTURES OF POWER
10. Yitzhak Hen (Hebrew University) - "The Merovingian Polity: A Network of Courts and Courtiers"
11. Edward James (Dublin) - "Elite Women in the Merovingian World"
12. Laury Sarti (Freiburg) - "The Military and its Role in Merovingian Society"
13. Gregory Halfond (Framingham) - "Corporate Solidarity and its Limits within the Gallo-Frankish Episcopate"
14. Peregrine Horden (London) - "Public Health, Hospitals, and Charity"
15. Albrecht Diem (Syracuse) -"The Monastic Experiment"

MEROVINGIAN GAUL IN A WIDER CONTEXT
16. Stefan Esders (Berlin) - "The Merovingians and Byzantium: Diplomatic, Military and Religious Issues, 500-700"
17. Robin Fleming (Boston) - "Material Evidence for Frankish Traders, Settlers, and Circular Migrators in Early Medieval Britain"
18. Jean-Michel Picard (Dublin) - "De gente Scottorum monachi: the Irish in Merovingian Settlement Strategy"
19. Ralph Mathisen (Illinois) - "Alors commen?a la France: Merovingian Expansion South of the Loire, 495-510 CE"
20. Matthias Hardt (Leipzig) - "Merovingians and the Avars and Slavs"
21. Jon Arnold (Tulsa) - "Merovingians and Italy (Ostrogoths and early Lombards)"

MEROVINGIAN WRITTEN CULTURE
22. Helmut Reimitz (Princeton) - "The History of Historiography in the Merovingian Period"
23. Alice Rio (London) - "Merovingian Legal Cultures"
24. Jamie Kreiner (Athens, Georgia) - "Merovingian Hagiography"
25. Andrew Gillett (independent) - "Letters and Communication Networks in Merovingian Gaul"
26. Mark Handley (independent) - "Merovingian Epigraphy and Epigraphy in the Merovingian World"

MEROVINGIAN LANDSCAPE
27. Simon Loseby (Sheffield) - "The Role of the City in Merovingian Gaul"
28. Luc Bourgeois (Caen) - "The Fate of Small Towns, Hilltop Settlements, and Elite Residences in Merovingian-Period Gaul"
29. Pascale Chevalier (Clermont) -Merovingian Religious Architecture: Some New Reflections
30. Alexandra Chavarr?a (Pavia) - "Survival of the villa in Merovingian Gaul"
31. Edith Peytremann (Caen) - Rural Life and Work in Northern Gaul during the Early Middle Ages"
32. Paolo Squatriti (Ann Arbor) - "Good and Bad Plants in Merovingian Francia"
33. Jean-Herv? Yvinec (INRAP) and Maude Barme (INRAP) - "Livestock and the Early Medieval Diet in Northern Gaul"

ECONOMIES, EXCHANGE, AND PRODUCTION
34. Dries Tys (Brussels) - "Maritime and River-Traders, Landing-Places and Emporia Ports in the Merovingian Period"
35. J?rgen Strothmann (Siegen) - "The Evidence of Numismatics: "Merovingian" Coinage and the Place of Frankish Gaul and its Cities in an "Invisible" Roman Empire"
36. Constantin Pion (Brussels), Bernard Gratuze (Orl?ans), Patrick P?rin (Saint-Germain-en-Laye), and Thomas Calligaro (Paris) - "Bead and Garnet Trade between the Merovingian, Mediterranean, and Indian Worlds"
37. Michel Bonifay (Aix-Marseille) and Dominique Pieri (Paris) - "Merovingian Gaul and the Mediterranean: Ceramics and Trade"
38. Frans Theuws (Leiden) - "Long Distance Trade and the Rural Population of Northern Gaul"
39. Ralph Patrello (independent) - "Beyond Romans and Barbarians: Reassessing Mortuary Archaeology in Southwestern Gaul"

THIS SUPERNATURAL AND THE AFTERLIFE
40. Genevra Kornbluth (independent) - "Amulets and Identity in the Merovingian World"
41. William Klingshirn (Washington DC) - "Magic and Divination in the Merovingian World"
42. Isabel Moreira (Utah) - "Visions and the Afterlife"
43. Els Rose (Utrecht) - "Inscribed in the Book of Life: Liturgical Commemoration in Merovingian Gaul"
44. Lisa Bailey (Auckland) - "Liturgy and the Laity"
45. Kevin Uhalde (Ohio) - "The Life of Penance"
46. Lynda Coon (Arkansas) - "Imagining Jesus in the Merovingian World"