An over-all study of State structure in Merovingian times - new theory of historical transition from the late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23320158
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of Europe and America
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: SATO SHOICHI 名古屋大学, 高等研究院, 名誉教授 (80131126)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 西ローマ帝国 / アルボガスト / キルデベルト１世 / 古代から中世への移行 / フランク族 / メロヴィング国家 / フン族 / メロヴィング朝

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project lies in the formation of Merovingian State from a renewed point of view of the historical phase of transition from the Late Antiquity embodied in the West Roman Empire, to the Early Medieval State formations. It raised vast problem of how developed the Frankish tribes in Roman political circumstance, after the fail of coup d'etat mounted by Frankish magister milititum Arbogast in 394 until an appearance of Childebert 1st in the year around 456 on historical written sources . Compering to a huge success that had enjoyed this German tribes during more than a generation in the Roman military hierarchy, it is very impressive that we only have scant and sporadic references on the Frankish tribes in historical document thereafter. As almost of all the German tribes, except the Visigoths, were under the hegemony of the Huns during former half of the 5th century, we should look at this aspect.

Free Research Field

西洋中世史