By Lewis Sergeant. Here is the story of the Franks, written in the days before the poison of political correctness destroyed simple factual accounts of the history of our people.
This work traces the rise of the Germanic people who laid the foundations of medieval France and much of western Europe. Beginning with the early Frankish tribes along the Rhine, the book follows their transformation from frontier warriors into the rulers of a powerful kingdom whose influence endured for centuries.
The narrative recounts the conquests of Clovis, the establishment of the Merovingian dynasty, and the spread of Christianity among the Franks. It then follows the emergence of the Carolingians, culminating in the extraordinary career of Charlemagne, whose vast empire united much of western Europe and shaped the political and cultural landscape of the Middle Ages.
Beyond its accounts of kings and battles, the book examines the institutions, laws, and religious developments that helped forge the Frankish state. It explains how the Franks preserved elements of the Roman world while creating new forms of government and society that would influence the future kingdoms of France, Germany, and the Holy Roman Empire.
First written in 1898, here is an attractive reprint complete with all the line art from the original book.
Includes sections on the early peoples of the region, Romans, Gallo-Romans, Germans, Kelts, Gauls, the Roman Church, rejection of the Franks, obscure origins, Sicambrian League, Trojans, Roman conquest, westward migrations, Varus and Hermann, Germanicus, Civilis, Flavian emperors, cradle of the Franks, Allemans, Goths, Christians, Romanized Gaul, pagan letters, poets, Vandals, insurrections, Belgic Gauls, Stilicho, Merovingians, Resparians, Yellow Terror, King Clovis, Queen Clotilda, conversion of Clovis, Orthodoxy, Arianism, Council of Nice, Trinitarians, Burgundians, Alaric, conquest of Aquitaine, death of Clovis, Teutonic law, sons of Clovis, plagues, Pepin, Charles Martel, Roman See, Hercynian Wolf, Charles the Great, Pope Adrian, Charles in Spain, Roland, Widukind, Tassilon of Bavaria, Aachen, Carolingians, Scriptorium at Tours, France, Germany, last Carolingians and hundreds more topics integral to the story.
Softcover, 343 pages
