The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World, edited by Bonnie Effros and Isabel Moreira
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Abstract
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.The first of the forty-six essays in this book is an introduction written by Effros and Moreira establishing their methodology.The remaining forty-five essays are grouped into eight thematic sections.Contributions of women are well-represented in both the authorship and subject matter.Issues important to many scholars today, including explorations of gender, identity, and power dynamics, as well as deconstruction and reinterpretation of historical accounts, are omnipresent.Scholarship from both the natural and social sciences stimulate interdisciplinary engagement.Individual chapters can be
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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