Contents: Part I. Communities of the Middle Ground in Sixth-Century Gaul -- 1. Gregory of Tours and his genealogy of pastoral power in late antique Gaul -- 2. Virtutes sanctorum et strages gentium : "The deeds of the saints and the slaughters of the peoples" : the radicalisation of church history -- 3. The dangers of history -- 4. Continuities and discontinuities : Roman and Frankish alternatives to Gregory -- 5. The politics of identity in the Merovingian kingdoms of the sixth century -- Part II. Countermyths : The Search for Origins in the Merovingian Kingdoms -- 6. The persistence of Gregory's vision of community : the réécriture and reconfiguration of the Histories in the seventh century -- 7. Iocundus in fabolis et strenuus in consiliis : Roman trickery and Frankish mythmaking in the Chronicle of Fredegar -- 8. "... sicut ceterae gentes" : "...like the other peoples" : the Liber historiae Francorum and the definition of the populus in the seventh and eighth century -- 9. Spielräume of Frankish identity in the long seventh century -- Part III. A Common Future : The Reforms of Frankish Identity under the Carolingians -- 10. Gens Francorum inclita : "the illustrious Frankish people" : the centralization of Frankishness under the early Carolingians -- 11. Correctio : the redefinition of central Frankishness -- 12. Before and after 800 : central and local Frankishness in the Carolingian world -- 13. Before and after 829 : the transformation of Frankish identity from the short to the long history of the Royal Frankish Annals -- Conclusion: Frankish identity, Western ethnicity

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