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Frankish Royal Tombs in the Cathedrals of Cologne and Saint-Denis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Joachim Werner
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The centuries between A.D. 400 and 800, which make the transition between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, are sparsely documented and have often been called by the English the ‘Dark Ages’, the dark centuries of Western European history. This paucity of written historical sources is greatly to be regretted, for these were decisive centuries for the formation of European society and in them occurred events whose results are to be seen even to the present day. The Roman Empire with its ancient civilisation collapsed; the countries on the southern shore of the Mediterranean went over to Islam; the Slavs settled in the Balkans, North-Central Europe, and the territory around the Danube as far as Austria; and these Danube-lands came under the domination of the Mongolian Avars.

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Antiquity , Volume 38 , Issue 151 , September 1964 , pp. 201 - 216
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1964

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[7] In Gregory of Tours’ History there is an example of a similar variation in spelling—Aregisilo, Arnegysilo, Armegisilo.

[8] After Gregory of Tours, The History of the Franks (trans. by Dalton, O. M.) (1927), vol. 11, bk. IV, 3 Google Scholar, but spelling of personal names amended.