Böcker av Bonnie (Professor of History Effros

The relationship between the living and the dead was significant in defining community identity and spiritual belief in the early Medieval world. This text reveals the social significance of burial rites in early Medieval Europe during the time of the Merovingian kings from 500 to 800 C.E.

This volume suggests how the slow genesis of Merovingian archaeology in France challenged the prevailing views of the population's exclusively Gallic ancestry. A history of the first century of the discipline, Effros' interdisciplinary study looks at the important contributions of medieval archaeological finds to modern French identity.