From Clovis to Charlemagne: Frankish History and Historians

Introduction: The Evolution of Early Frankish Historiography from Gregory of tours to Einhard

Chapter 1

Gregory of Tours and Spain

in Alexander Callendar Murray (ed.), A Companion to Gregory of Tours (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 498-515

Chapter 2

The Continuator of Marius of Avenches, 'Fredegar', and the Merovingian dynastic crisis of 613

Previously unpublished

Chapter 3

Deception and Misrepresentation in Eighth Century Frankish Historiography: Two Case Studies

in Joerg Jarnut, Ulrich Nonn & Michael Richter (ed.), Karl Martel in zeiner Zeit (Sigmaringen: Beihefte der Francia 37, 1994), pp. 227-247

Chapter 4

Pippin III as Mayor of the Palace: The Evidence

in Matthias Becher & Joerg Jarnut (ed.), Der Dynastiewechsel von 751: Vorgeschichte, Legitimationntrategie und Erinnerung (Munster, 2005), pp. 75-91

Chapter 5

The Lorsch Annals and Charlemagne's imperial coronation

in Joanna Story (ed.), Charlemagne: Empire and Society (Manchester U.P, 2005), pp. 52-70

Chapter 6

The Frankish Past and the Carolingian Present in the Age of Charlemagne

in Peter Godman, Joerg Jarnut & Peter Johanek (ed.), Am Vorabend der Kaiserkroenung (Berlin, 2002), pp. 301-322

Chapter 7

Charlemagne and His Critics, 814-829

in Regine LeJan (ed.), La royaute et les elites dans l'Europe carolingienne (Lille, 1998), pp. 193-211

Chapter 8

The Reviser Revisited: Another Look at the Alternative Version of the Annales Regni Francorum

in Alexander Callendar Murray (ed.), After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History (Toronto: University Press, 1998), pp. 191-211

Chapter 9

In the Footsteps of Fredegar: the Based, Dillingen and Munich Fragments

Previously unpublished, deriving from a lecture to the Early Medieval Seminar in the Institute for Historical Research, in the University of London in 2005.

Chapter 10

A Gift for Charles the Bald? MS Vienna, OEsterreichische Nationalbibliothek 473

Previously unpublished, deriving from a presentation to a seminar in Vienna

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