Writing about the Merovingians in the Early United States

Gregory I. Halfond

doi:10.1017/9781802701418

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Gregory I. Halfond, Framingham State University, Massachusetts

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: February 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781802701418
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781802701418

Subjects:: American History: General Interest, Area Studies, American Studies, History
Series:: Arc Medievalist

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In a young American republic seeking to define itself in relation to European cultural and political models past and present, it was assumed that the history of Europe's peoples could be tracked across time over the longue durée. From this perspective, even the barbarous long-haired kings of the distant Merovingian era helped to define the political and cultural identity of a France-and, indeed, a Europe-whose actions Americans recognized as relevant to their own republic. Americans saw medieval parallels not only in the actions of successive French regimes, but in contemporary transatlantic issues of anxiety, including the adjudication of claims of political legitimacy and the debate over the perpetuation of racial slavery. That early American writers located their own meanings in the history of Merovingian Francia is indicative of a less linear, and more diverse and transnational, historiography than previously recognized.

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Writing about the Merovingians in the Early United States

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Illustrations
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp 1-2

Introduction
pp 3-20

Part I - Sources of Knowledge
pp 21-22

1 - American Writers and Merovingian Historiography: Reception and Engagement
pp 23-42

2 - Schoolbooks and the Teaching of Merovingian History
pp 43-64

Part II - Locating Meaning in Merovingian History
pp 65-66

3 - National Character and Historical Parallelism in a Revolutionary Age
pp 67-82

4 - Adjudicating Political Legitimacy in the Early American Republic (1790–1816)
pp 83-100

5 - Early Medieval Unfreedom and the Debate over Slavery (1840–1860)
pp 101-118

Conclusion
pp 119-122

Bibliography
pp 123-148

Index
pp 149-154

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