Description:
"With a sure sense of the needs of the classroom, Murray presents a clear, idiomatic translation and adds just enough commentary to guide readers through the text." - Walter Goffart, Yale University
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes:
With a sure sense of the needs of the classroom, Murray presents a clear, idiomatic translation and adds just enough commentary to guide readers through the difficulties of the text.
--Walter Goffart, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in History, Yale UniversityAlexander Murray, one of the world's leading specialists in Merovingian history, has provided an abridgement and excellent translation of Gregory's Ten Books along with a first-class introduction, and useful bibliography. The volume is completed by numerous study aids such as genealogies, high-quality maps, and a list of the civitates of Gaul. [...] I strongly recommend Murray's volume as the best and most consistent translation, even if abridged, of Gregory's Ten Books, in any language with which I am familiar. With the ancillary material provided by Murray, this volume is a formidable teaching tool.
--Bernard S. Bachrach, University of Toronto Quarterly