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Informationen zum Autor Alexander Callander Murray is a member of the Department of History and Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, where he teaches at the Erindale Campus. He is author of Germanic Kinship Structure: Studies in Law and Society in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (1983), editor of After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History (1998), and has written articles on Merovingian administration and office-holding, and on the dating of Beowulf . Klappentext "This admirable collection of primary sources is so copious that it will prove instructive to senior professors as well as beginning undergraduates." - Walter Goffart, University of Toronto Zusammenfassung "This admirable collection of primary sources is so copious that it will prove instructive to senior professors as well as beginning undergraduates." - Walter Goffart! University of Toronto Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations and Maps Abbreviations Preface Chapter One: The Early Franks A. The Earliest Sources 1. Aurelius Victor, From the Emperors (De Caesaribus) 2. From the Latin Panegyrics (Panegyrici Latini) B. Raiders, Invaders, and Roman Soldiers, a. 354-60 I. Silvanus the Usurper 3. The History of Ammianus Marcellinus, XV 5 II. Julian in Gaul: Salians and Chamavi, a. 357-58 4. The Emperor Julian, From his Letter to the Athenians 5. The History of Ammianus Marcellinus, XVII 2, 8 6. Libanios of Antioch, From his Funeral Oration over Julian 7. Eunapius of Sardis, Fragment 18.6. III. Julian Proclaimed Augustus, a. 360 8. The History of Ammianus Marcellinus, XX 4 Chapter Two: Orosius on Empire, Barbarians, and Usurpers in the Late Fourth and Fifth Centuries 9. From the Histories against the Pagans Chapter Three: Three Gallic Courtiers and Poets: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Patriotism A. Ausonius of Bordeaux 10. A Ranking of Famous Cities, ca 390 11. Bissula 12. From the Epigrams 13. From the Nuptial Cento: The Deflowering of the Bride B. Rutilius Claudius Namatianus 14. From His Voyage Home a. In Praise of Rome b. Trouble in Armorica c. Judaism d. Monasticism e. Stilicho C. Paulinus of Pella 15. From the Thanksgiving (Eucharisticus) Chapter Four: The Antique Chronicle Tradition in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries 16. Prosper of Aquitaine 17. The Gallic Chronicle of 452 18. From the Chronicle of Hydatius 19. The Gallic Chronicle of 511 20. The Chronicle of Marius of Avenches Chapter Five: Salvian of Marseilles on God's Judgment 21. On the Governance of God Chapter Six: Priscus of Panium on Attila the Hun 22. An Embassy to the Court of Attila, a. 449 23. Attila and the West, a. 450-52 i. Attila and Honoria ii. Vandals and Huns iii. Attila and the Franks iv. Attila's Terms v. Attila Meets the Pope 24. Attila's Death, a. 453 Chapter Seven: Fragments and Scraps of Fifth-Century History 25. The Franks and Imperial Politics, a. 388-420 i. Sulpicius Alexander ii. Claudian on the Consulship of Stilicho, a. 400 iii. Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus 26. An Anonymous Sketch of the Reign of Honorius 27. Olympiodorus on Galla Placidia and the Goths 28. From the Thanksgiving of Paulinus of Pella: The Sack of Bordeaux and the Siege of Bazas, a. 414/415 29. The Establishment of the Gallic Council of the Seven Provinces, a. 418 30. From the Comedy Querolus: Laws of the Forest Along the Loire 31. Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus on Aetius 32. From the Imperial Decrees of the ...
