Frankland

The Franks and the world of the early middle ages

Paul Fouracre, David Ganz

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780719087721
  9780719076695
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526148254
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: History

This collection of highly original essays by leading early medieval historians honours the work and career of Dame Janet (Jinty) Nelson, one of the most respected and influential scholars of her generation. The essays build on the spirit of Janet Nelson's work by linking the study of Francia with at least one other area or general theme of early medieval history. The papers range across all of the regions of Europe affected by Frankish culture and explore themes which reflect the cutting edge of the work she inspired: memory, queenship, the treatment of prisoners of war, penance, the use of property, historiography, palaeography, prosopography and religious organization. The volume includes an appreciation of her career, and is rounded off by a topical index to highlight its thematic aspects.














































The contributors are drawn from those who have worked alongside Janet Nelson and from some of her former students. They include David Bates, Stephen Baxter, Wendy Davies, Paul Fouracre and David Ganz.

Table of contents

• Front matter
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• List of abbreviations
• Preface
• Introduction: Dame Jinty Nelson ... An Appreciation
• Charters, law codes and formulae: the Franks between theory and practice
• Compulsory purchase in the earlier Middle Ages
• Gallic or Greek? Archbishops in England from Theodore to Ecgberht
• Forgetting and remembering Dagobert II: the English connection
• Some Carolingian questions from Charlemagne’s days
• ‘Immune from heresy’: defining the boundaries of Carolingian Christianity
• English history and Irish readers in the Frankish world
• In search of the Carolingian ‘dear lord’
• Making a difference in tenth-century politics: King Athelstan’s sisters and Frankish queenship*
• The Carolingian capture of Aachen in 978 and its historiographical footprint
• Absoluimus uos uice beati petri apostolorum principis: episcopal authority and the reconciliation of excommunicants in England and Francia c.900–c.1150
• Fontenoy and after: pursuing enemies to death in France between the ninth and eleventh centuries
• The death of Burgheard son of Ælfgar and its context
• The representation of queens and queenship in Anglo-Norman royal charters
• Franks and Bretons: the impact of political climate and historiographical tradition on writing their ninth-century history
• Appendix: The estates and lordships attached to Burgheard in Domesday Book
• Professor Janet L. Nelson’s publications
• Tabula gratulatoria
• Index