"The History of the Lombards constitutes one of the most important literary sources for the early history of Europe, and the vision and energy of its author make it . . . the most complex of the histories of the Germanic peoples between the sixth and the ninth centuries."—from the Introduction
Edward Peters is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe, The First Crusade, and, with Alan C. Kors, Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History, all available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
"This account of his own people by one of the most learned of
medieval historians will be a pleasant surprise to the English
reader who has had no opportunity to put this vivacious chronicle .
. . on the shelf with Herodotus."
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