Download or read book The Merovingian Kingdoms, 450-751 written by Ian N. Wood and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1994 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centuries immediately following the collapse of Roman rule in what is now France are an extraordinarily tangled time that is frequently dismissed as no more than a chaotic prelude to Charlemagne and the Carolingian Dynasty. Ian Wood's aim is to demonstrate that there was more to Merovingian France than fratricidal kinglets, murderous queens, corrupt bishops and otherworldly monastic saints.