Friendship in the Merovingian Kingdoms: Venantius Fortunatus and His Contemporaries

Hope Williard

doi:10.1017/9781802700343

Friendship in the Merovingian Kingdoms

Venantius Fortunatus and His Contemporaries

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Hope Williard, University of Lincoln

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: April 2023
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781802700343
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781802700343

Subjects:: Social Theory, Sociology
Series:: CARMEN Monographs and Studies

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This book explores how one early medieval poet survived and thrived amidst the political turbulence of sixth century Gaul - with a little help from his friends. Born in northern Italy, Venantius Fortunatus made his career writing for and about members of the Merovingian elite. Although he is no longer dismissed as an opportunistic poetaster who wrote undistinguished flattery for undeserving kings and aristocrats, his work remains unduly neglected. This book reframes Fortunatus as a writer uniquely suited to his times, a professional poet who addressed his contemporaries' needs and wishes for the prestige and sophistication of Classical culture. His poems and letters enabled his aristocratic patrons to situate themselves in networks, which they made and maintained in order to navigate a post-imperial but not post-Roman world. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of friendship in the Middle Ages and offers a fresh look at the Frankish kingdoms of Merovingian Gaul.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iii

Contents
pp iv-iv

Acknowledgements
pp v-v

Introduction
pp 1-24

Chapter 1 - The Friendly Patron and His Client
pp 25-66

Chapter 2 - Episcopal and Lay Building Projects
pp 67-104

Chapter 3 - Friendships with Merovingian Women
pp 105-152

Chapter 4 - Writing for Royalty
pp 153-202

Chapter 5 - Literary Friendships and Elite Identity
pp 203-232

Conclusion
pp 233-240

Select Bibliography
pp 241-246

Index of Poems Cited
pp 247-248

General Index
pp 249-254

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