Frankish Colonization

A New Approach

Bibliographic Data

ID11005351
AuthorsCharles Verlinden (corresponding author)
Year1954
Volume4
Pages1-17
Publication date1954-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3678849
OpenAlexW2328518951
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited5

The Franks were the most successful of the Germanic invaders of the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries of our era, and the problem of the nature and date of their settlement, bound up as it is with that of the origins of the linguistic frontier in Belgium, is one of the most complex of early medieval history. It is also one of the most interesting, for whatever solution we find for it must influence our interpretation of the historical evolution which gave rise to the Frankish monarchy on the one hand and to the modern Belgian state on the other. It involves a multitude of interrelated questions: the origins of the population, language and customary law of the Germanic (Flemish) part of Belgium; the alignment of the linguistic frontier between Flemish, Walloon and German; the extent of Germanic colonization in the former Latin-speaking regions of northern Gaul; and the agrarian organization and the forms of land settlement in the same region

Agrarian society · Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonization · Flemish · Frontier · Geography · German · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Monarchy · Multitude · Political science · Population · Settlement (finance · Sociology · State formation · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Demography · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Law · Philosophy

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