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Including such remarkable accounts as Attila the Hun's meeting with the Pope, Queen Balthild's life, and Gregory of Tours' vivid descriptions of what happens when daily life is enmeshed with politics, From Roman to Merovingian Gaul documents events that are both remarkable in themselves and that demonstrate what made this…

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What I have always loved about the study of the past, and what I attempt to develop more than anything else in my students, is the ability to read and analyze texts, and seeking the truth about a period, come to one’s own conclusions.

This collection, prepared by perhaps the greatest living expert on the subject - that is Gaul (essentially France) in the early Middle Ages - and one of my own scholarly mentors, allows readers to directly encounter sources from the time, produced by people of the time. And what a time! The period from c.300–c.700 is one…

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