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Some of the ideas in this paper have already been expressed in the first chapter of our doctoral dissertation entitled: The Gallo-Roman bishops and the creation of an ideal model of a Christian king. Also, much of the content elaborated here is inspired from an article written by Professor Yitzhak Hen (Hen, 1993: 271-276). In this paper we try to support the view, that the legitimization of the Merovingian dynasty was a political process, with its beginnings located in the period of Clovis I's reign 481-511. Further, this legitimization is viewed through the attempts of the Gallo-Roman Church to create an image of a Christian king, even before Clovis' acceptance of the Catholic faith and his baptism as a Catholic Christian.
Archaeological finds and document monuments from the time of Early European Middle Ages provide sufficient evidences of the true origin of the European nobility: They were Huns or Xiongnus (at least a major part of them). This paper discusses the archeology and historiography of the Merovingians under the aspect of the Hunnic/Asian origin of the royal clan of the Frankish Empire. This paper is part of a book published by the author Dispersion of the Israelites in the Eurasian Continent: How GOD has fulfilled His Promise: History of Eurasia from a Biblical Perspective, 2023. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCXP3FKX
ILAN Conference "Property and Power in Late Antiquity", New York University, 2014
Bishops, Kings, and the Appropriation of Church Property. Some Thoughts on the Role of precariae verbo regis during the Merovingian AgeIn the numerous clashes between clerics and kings in the Early Middle Ages, issues related to Church property certainly stick out as a major bone of contention. The need to protect Church property was one of the most prominent causes that prompted bishops to convene Church councils, where wordy threats against the “necatores pauperum” were formulated. While it is widely uncontested that assaults on ecclesiastical property were quite common, very little is known about the mechanisms that were taken advantage of so as to appropriate landed property that belonged to the Church. I shall therefore focus on the evidence concerning the legal institution of the precaria verbo regis. Being a form of land lease derived from Roman law, the precaria was used explicitly by the Pippinids in order to bestow ecclesiastical property on allegiant retainers without formally challenging the property rights of the Church. In my opinion, the source evidence points at a similar practice asserted by the Merovingians. Originally, the precaria was meant to be advantageous to both parties: the conferrer and the borrower. However, if my observations prove right, they illustrate how the precaria could be used as a flexible tool in a way strongly detrimental to the conferrer (i. e. the Church). In fact, exactly this was the case when precarial grants were made under pressure of the kingship or its powerful retainers. The outcome depended on how details were handled. On the other hand, this practice also shows the way Roman legal concepts could be adopted and transformed in the post Roman world.
Prague Papers on the History of International Relations.
Political influence on late Merovingian episcopal hagiographic production and the episcopal ideal2022 •
This study is concerned with the political influence on late Merovingian episcopal hagiographic production and with the changes in the episcopal ideal. It focuses on how key elements such as the origins of the bishop, the manner of his induction into the episcopal office and the relationship between the bishop and the monarch, respectively the relationship between the performance of episcopal duties, political involvement and service at the court, are portrayed in hagiographic production. A method of comparative analysis of late Merovingian hagiographic production associated with Saint Arnulf of Metz, Audoin of Rouen, Eligius of Noyon, Aunemund of Lyon, Leudegar of Autun, and Praejectus of Clermont was applied.
Cristo e il potere dal Medioevo all’Età moderna. Teologia, antropologia e politica, Florence, SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2017, p. 225-245
The Christ figure in Burgundian Political Thought at the Time of Philip the Good2017 •
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The careful reader may learn at least as much about our cultural world, the one from which The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World has sprung, as the historical world it examines. Scholarship has certainly moved away from Edward Gibbon's rather dim view of the Merovingians. This dynasty of the first Frankish kings, founded by Clovis, ruled the people and the land occupied by the cultural ancestors of France, Belgium, Germany, southern Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland from the late fifth to the mid-eighth centuries. Editors Bonnie Effros and Isabel Moreira spotlight work that privileges material culture over historical sources, questioning previous assumptions and showing how what was previously understood by many as merely a transitional period of decline from Antiquity, began to be seen as worthy of study in its own right. The political and cultural interactions of the Merovingians are examined in detail, but this is not a history book in the classical sense. The juxtaposition of disciplines provided here may certainly create future opportunities for a closer marriage of evidence and interpretation.
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