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Germany in the Early Middle Ages, 476-1250
Germany in the Early Middle Ages 4761250 Author:William Stubbs General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co. Subjects: Germany History / Europe / Germany History / General History / Europe / Germany History / Medieval Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos ... more »or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II Germany under the later Merovings -- Their fall -- Charles Martel -- The conversion of Germany -- The reign of Pipin -- The reign of Charles the Great -- The Saxon Wars -- Annexation of Bavaria -- The Huns and the Avars -- The character of Charles the Great -- A German by birth -- The Celtic character of Neustria -- The German character of Austrasia. The Situation under the later Merovings. -- There are one or two considerations which ought not to be overlooked. In the first place, although it is a great mistake to regard the Merovings and the house of Pipin from which Charles sprang as French in the modern sense of the word, or indeed as anything but German in every sense, it is nevertheless certain that Neustria or modern France was much more completely subject to them, and more thoroughly and regularly organised than Austrasia, much more than those further portions of the German land which, like Bavaria, lay practically beyond the limits of the Austrasian half of the dominion. Saxony and Thuringia were frequently at open war with the Franks ; while Bavaria, only in very imperfect subjection and that under a brave race of native princes, was strong in foreign alliances and deemed herself, as a nationality and a national sovereignty, nowise inferior to the descendants of Clovis. German or Eastern France had indeed been without that civilisation and training that Neustria had had from the Romans, and, with the exception of the close ne...« less