Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction: evidence and interpretation; Pippin, England, and the Merovingian legacy; Bishop George and the Legates' mission to England; Chronicled connections: Frankish annals and the historia regum; Exiles and the emperor; Francia and the Mercian supremacy; Francia and the rise of Wessex; Conclusion; Appendix: Evidence of anointing in 8th-century England; Bibliography; Index.
Joanna Story, University of Leicester, UK
'Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' Choice 'Joanna Story has produced a well-researched book that engages with modern scholarship, building on others' findings as much as she revises.' The Medieval Review 'This work is revealing, relevant, and a valuable contribution to medieval history and an extremely useful addition to the corpus of texts on this period in European history.' Speculum
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