List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Genealogies
Introduction
Reims and the Annals of
Flodoard
Flodoard of Reims
The Annals
The Political Background
to the Annals
The Middle Kingdom (Francia Media)
The West Frankish Kingdom (Francia Occidentalis)
The East Frankish Kingdom (Francia Orientalis)
The Second Fragmentation of the Carolingian Empire
The Events of Flodoard's
Annals
Royal Affairs
Northern
Powers: Flanders and the Northmen
Southern
Powers: Aquitaine and the Duchy of Burgundy
Lotharingia and Germany
Upper Burgundy, Provence, and Italy
England
The Magyars
The Saracens
The "Feudal
Revolution"
The Translation
Notes to the
Introduction
Bibliography
The Annals of Flodoard
Notes to the Translation
Glossary
Maps
Genealogies
Index
This is a very welcome addition to an excellent series. Flodoard's contemporary narrative is crammed with information about west Frankish politics in the tenth century, the expansionist raids of the Northmen of the Loire (under Ragenold) and Seine (under Rollo and William Longsword) and ecclesiastical affairs of Rheims itself, not least the extraordinary account of the Synod of Ingelheim in 948 which deposed and excommunicated Archbishop Hugh and reinstated Archbishop Artoldus. Fanning and Bachrach make this important and hitherto rather neglected text accessible for the first time in an admirably clear translation, augmented with helpful historical introduction and notes. -- Rosamond McKitterick, Newnham College, University of Cambridge Flodoard's work is not only one of the most important sources for the history of tenth-century Europe, but a fine example of the annalistic genre. It bears vivid witness to the complex, personal, and often brutal nature of the high-stakes political games of this period, which witnessed the slow demise of the Carolingian empire and the development of the kingdoms of Germany and France. Flodoard was himself deeply enmeshed in the events he recorded, and his account allows the reader to be caught up in the same action. Fanning and Bachrach's translation provides a trustworthy, well-annotated, and extremely useful tool for students of medieval history. -- Thomas Head, Professor of History, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Bernard S. Bachrach is Professor of History at the University of
Minnesota. Among his recent books are Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman
Consul, 987-1040 (University of California Press) and Early
Carolingian Warfare: Prelude to Empire (University of Pennsylvania
Press).
Steven Fanning is Associate Professor of History at the University
of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of A Bishop and His World
Before the Gregorian Reform: Hubert of Angers, 1006-1047 (American
Philosophical Society) and Mystics of the Christian Tradition
(Routledge).
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