Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. MAP AND FIGURES vii
4. PREFACE ix
5. ABBREVIATIONS xi
6. Introduction: Walter Andre Goffart 1
7. Walter Goffart: Bibliography, 1957-[ 1997] 8
8. 1. Our Forefathers? Tribes, Peoples, and Nations in the Historiography of the Age of Migrations 17
9. 2. The Purposes of Cassiodorus' Variae 37
10. 3. Gregory of Tours and the Franks 51
11. 4. Heresy in Books I and II of Gregory of Tours' Historiae 67
12. 5. War, Warlords, and Christian Historians from the Fifth to the Seventh Century 83
13. 6. Jonas, the Merovingians, and Pope Honorius: Diplomata and the Vita Columbani 99
14. 7. Post vocantur Merohingii: Fredegar, Merovech, and 'Sacral Kingship' 121
15. 8. Aristocratic Power in Eighth-Century Lombard Italy 153
16. 9. Making a Difference in Eighth-Century Politics: The Daughters of Desiderius 171
17. 10. The 'Reviser' Revisited: Another Look at the Alternative Version of the Annales Regni Francorum 191
18. 11. Pirenne and Charlemagne 214
19. 12. Lupus of Ferrieres in His Carolingian Context 232
20. 13. What Was Carolingian Monasticism? The Plan of St Gall and the History of Monasticism 251
21. 14. The Chronicle of Claudius of Turin 288
22. 15. Monks and Canons in Carolingian Gaul: The Case of Rigrannus of Le Mans 320
23. 16. Jews, Pilgrimage, and the Christian Cult of Saints: Benjamin of Tudela and His Contemporaries 337
24. 17. The Trojan Origins of the French and the Brothers Jean du Tillet 348
25. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 385