From Clovis to Charlemagne: Frankish History and Historians

This book is a collection of papers on Frankish historiography in the Merovingian and early Carolingian periods, from the late sixth to early ninth centuries, and studies numerous individual texts, evaluating their witness to the events they describe.

Roger Collins is an historian and author. He studied at the University of Oxford (The Queen’s and St Cross Colleges) under Peter Brown and Michael Wallace-Hadrill. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in the University of Edinburgh from 1994 to 1998. Since then, he has been an Honorary Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Initially, his books concerned Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, but his studies of the Basques and of the papacy have extended to the present day. He has also written a memoir, Chased by Bulldogs. A Historian’s Tale (2025).