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Depicts the vitality of a barbarian people, the decadence of a dying empire, and the crucial role of the development of Christianity while tracing the saga of the earliest kings of France
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The rulers of Frankish Gaul exuded crude vitality and a freewheeling spirit. Sadistic Queen Fredegund, known for her magnetic sexual allure, favored assassination as the most convenient way to dispose of her enemies. Emperor Lothair kept six women as lovers under his various roofs; dying at age 77, his last words were an enraged cry against the God who had dared to lay low a great king. His father, Clovis, a Catholic convert, led a ruthless career of conquest with all the radiance of a consecrated hero. This full-blooded chronicle maps the troubled centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire when poetic, inventive Celts and pragmatic Romans merge with tough Franks on the Christian soil that became medieval France. Scherman (The Flowering of Ireland takes her saga through the last Merovingian "sluggard kings"dissolute, weak, lazyup to Charles, the Christian savior of Europe, who used the church as a war chest to underwrite his military campaigns.
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The general reader interested in early French history will enjoy this well-written and generally informed account, if he or she is not overwhelmed by the enormous detail. The author traces the development of Frankish kingship from the imperfect Christianization of Clovis and his sons down to the accession of Charlemagne. Although Scherman is familiar with the primary sources of this brutal period, the text seems to be based primarily on secondary works that do not reflect recent trends in historical research. Still, this is a rare appreciation of the literary, artistic, architectural, and musical aspects of the culture. Bennett D. Hill, St. Anselm's Abbey, Washington, D.C.
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