Children and Family in Late Antique Egyptian Monasticism by Caroline T. Schroeder (review)

studies that demonstrate the ambitions of the Merovingians beyond their borders as well as the influx of eastern influences on their cultural production. While the contributions to this volume do not always cleave as closely as one might like to the theme of “east and west” and several identify analogies without drawning conclusions about agents of transmission, the book demonstrates convincingly that any consideration of Merovingian political and cultural history must take into account the Mediterranean Spielraum that influenced and informed Frankish identity from the sixth to the early eighth centuries.