{"product_id":"the-formularies-of-angers-and-marculf-two-merovingian-legal-handbooks-9781846311598","title":"The Formularies of Angers and Marculf: Two","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers the first full English translation of two major sources for the Merovingian kingdoms: the formularies of Angers and Marculf (sixth and seventh centuries). These collections of model legal documents, compiled by scribes as an aid to the composition of future documents, constitute an important source of evidence on government, legal practice and social life during the Merovingian period, both at the local level (for Angers) and at the level of the kingdom’s elite and the entourage of the king (for Marculf). They illuminate aspects of life which would often have been considered too trivial to be worth mentioning in narrative sources, and can include instructions dealing with subjects as diverse as appointing a bishop, making a gift, borrowing money, divorcing, selling an infant child, confiscating property from a rebel, writing Christmas greetings, and settling disputes over murders, thefts or kidnappings. As well as presenting the translations, the introduction also gives a brief outline of the characteristics of this type of source as a whole, with the aim of putting these texts into perspective and providing a methodological handle for them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRio has given us here is not only a set of translations, but also a work of scholarship that makes the formulae vastly more accessible to students and to professionals.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWarren Brown,\u003ci\u003e Early Medieval Europe \u003c\/i\u003e19 (2)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements Abbreviations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe scope of this book The scope of formulae\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe problem with formulae\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthorship and audience: what the manuscript evidence can tell us The language of formulae\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormulae and the written word\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormulae and surviving documents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDating formulae: original collections vs. manuscript tradition Local context and diffusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo conclude\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA note on this translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart One: The Formulary of Angers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Two: The Formulary of Marculf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe scope of the collection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDate and place of origin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarculf and Landeric\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDating the collection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarculf and St Denis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA note on the printed editions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook One\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook Two Supplement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdditamenta: additional texts from the manuscripts of Marculf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea, b, c: three more texts from the manuscripts ofMarculf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix I: The original date of the Angers collection: the state of the question\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix 2: The gesta municipalia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix 3: The Marculf collection: manuscripts and editions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe manuscript tradition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEditions of Marculf and the hierarchy of manuscripts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMap\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042990162263,"sku":"9781846311598","price":31.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781846311598.jpg?v=1750956552","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-formularies-of-angers-and-marculf-two-merovingian-legal-handbooks-9781846311598","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}