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Abbreviations --General --Letter Collections --Preface --Introduction --Additamentum e codice formularum Senonensium --Aldhelmi et ad Aldhelmum epistolae --Columbani abbatis Luxoviensis et Bobbiensis epistolae --Epistolae aevi Merowingici collectae --Epistolae Austrasicae --Epistolae Aviti Viennensis --Epistolae Caesarii Arelatensis --Epistolae Desiderii Cadurcensis episcopi --Epistolae Wisigoticae --Liber auctoritatum ecclesiae Arelatensis --Registrum Gregorii --S. Bonifatii et Lulli epistolae --Variae epistolae --Venantii Fortunati opera poetica --Amicitia Networks Part 1 : Sidonius Apollinaris to Nicetius of Trier and Friends --Preamble --Sidonius Apollinaris --Ruricius of Limoges --Avitus of Vienne --Early Sixth-Century Letters --Amicitia Networks Part 2 : Venantius Fortunatus and the Later Sixth Century --Preamble --The Provençal Literary Circle --The Austrasian Literary Circle --Felix of Nantes --Martin of Braga --Gregory of Tours --Syagrius of Autun and the carmen figuratum --Amicitia Networks Part 3 : Columbanus to Boniface and Lull --Preamble --Columbani abbatis Luxoviensis et Bobbiensis epistolae --Epistolae Desiderii episcopi Cadurcensis --Chrodobert of Tours and Importunus of Paris --S. Bonifatii et Lulli epistolae --Concluding Remarks --Kings and Popes --Royal Letters --Childebert I --Theudebert I --Desiderius of Cahors --Specula principum --Papal Letters --Liber auctoritatum ecclesiae Arelatensis --Epistolae Viennensis spuriae --Registrum Gregorii --Amandus of Maastricht and Martin I --Boniface and Rome --Concluding Remarks --Women's Letters --Effusis cum lacrimis : Women Writing Emotional Letters --Women Writing Unemotional Letters --Letters to Women --Concluding Remarks --Bearers and Gifts --Section 1 : Bearers --Section 2 : Gifts --Concluding Remarks --Letter Writers and the Bible --Preamble --Letters of Instruction and Reproach --Letters of Defence --Letters of amicitia --Insular Epistolography and the Bible --Vitae and Biblical Usage : A Comparison --Versions of Scripture --Chart of Biblical Quotations --Concluding Remarks --Conclusion --Appendix of Biblical Quotations --Columbani abbatis Luxoviensis et Bobbiensis epistolae --Epistolae aevi Merowingici collectae --Epistolae Austrasicae --Epistolae Caesarii Arelatensis --Epistolae Desidera episcopi --Liber auctoritatum ecclesiae Arelatensis --S. Bonifatii et Lulli epistolae --Appendix : Summaries of Individual Merovingian Letters --Additamentum e codice formularum Senonensium --Aldhelmi et ad Aldhelmum epistolae Columbani abbatis Luxoviensis et Bobbiensis epistolae --Epistolae aevi Merowingici collectae --Epistolae Austrasicae --Epistolae Aviti Viennensis --Epistolae Caesarii Arelatensis --Epistolae Desidera episcopi --Epistolae Wisigoticae --Liber auctoritatum ecclesiae Arelatensis --Registrum Gregorii --S. Bonifatii et Lulli epistolae --Variae epistolae --Venantii Fortunati opera poetica --Appendix carminum --Vita Eligii --Vita Remigii --Vita sancti Amandi episcopi --Vita sancti Desidera --Libri historiarum decern of Gregory of Tours. This book, useful for both scholars and students of Late Antique Gaul, is a survey of 600 plus Latin letters written during the Merovingian era (ca. 500-750) by bishops and other clergy, highly-placed laymen, women, popes, and royalty. Various aspects of the correspondence are discussed, including amicitia, literary circles, gift-giving, letter-bearers, Scripture usage, and women's writing. An appendix supplies English summaries of the letters, many of which have not received translation into any modern language. Primary sources from the Frankish kingdom during the Merovingian era (ca. 500-750) are few and far between. This volume is a survey of more than 600 Latin letters, selected by the author, that were exchanged between persons in Gaul during that time period. Many are almost entirely unknown and have never been translated into any modern language. While most of the letters were authored by clerics and highly-placed laymen, a small but significant number was composed by women, both religious and lay. For elite individuals, letter networks were the social media of their day. Letters were written to maintain the bonds of friendship, to seek or extend patronage and political alliance, to instruct, rebuke, defend, console, and recommend. Many have come down to us in collections; others are strays embedded in other texts or deperdita that come to light only in the replies of others. In seven chapters, the author discusses numerous aspects of the letters and explores how they fit with, and enlarge upon, the better-known sources of the period such as the works of Gregory of Tours, Fredegar, the anonymous History of the Franks (LHF), and various saints' vitae
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