The Formularies of Angers and Marculf
Two Merovingian Legal Handbooks
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
With an Introduction and Commentary by Alice Rio
256 pages
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5-3/4 x 8-1/4
This volume offers the first full English-language translation of two major sources for the Merovingian kingdoms: the formularies of Angers and Marculf (from the sixth and seventh centuries AD). These collections of model legal documents, compiled by scribes, constitute an important source of evidence on government, legal practice, and social life during the Merovingian period—at both the local and elite level. Illuminating aspects of life once considered too trivial to mention in a narrative source—such as making a gift, selling an infant, writing Christmas greetings, and settling murder disputes—this volume offers an outline of this type of source as a whole, putting the texts into perspective and providing a methodological foundation for them.
Contents
Introduction
The scope of this book
The scope of formulae
The problem with formulae
Authorship and audience: what the manuscript evidence can tell us
The language of formulae
Formulae and the written word
Formulae and surviving documents
Dating formulae: original collections vs. manuscript tradition
Local context and diffusion
To conclude
A note on this translation
Part One: The Formulary Angers
Introduction
Translation
Part Two: The Formulary Marculf
Introduction
The scope of the collection
Date and place of origin
Marculf and Landeric
Dating the collection
Marculf and St. Denis
A note on the printed editions
Translation
Book One
Book Two
Supplement
Appendix
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