Wood The Merovingian Kingdoms (450-751)

Longman, 1994, 1° ed, 395p, with extended bibliography and index, paperback, snede pagina's vergeeld, lichte slijtage aan de hoeken, goede staat

Of all Rome's western successors, the Frankish kingdom that emerged in France, Belgium, the Rhineland and Switzerland was the most powerful and the longest-lasting; yet the Merovingians, who ruled it for nearly 300 years (481-751), have been harshly treated by posterity. This is partly through the hostility of the Carolingians, who usurped and succeeded them, and partly because of a family history that was lurid and bloody even by contemporary standards.