--Its origin --Not inconsistent with the death penalty --Civil procedure -- Judicial procedure --The Rachimburgi --Appeals to Divine justice --Ordeals --The combined oath --The villa of N.E. Gaul --The Burgundian Code -- A politic attempt of Gundobad to reconcile the Burgundian and Gallo- Roman races --It reflects a civilisation more advanced than that of the Salian Franks --No trace of legal superiority of the conquerors --Landed property --Rural life and slave labour --Brigandage --Crimes of violence -- The protection of women --Judicial combat --Summarised view of the Burgundian Code --Picture of a peaceful and happy land --Little trace of the Church's power in this Code. . . . . Pages
Accession of Clovis --Favoured by the Church against the Arian Visigoths and Burgundians --His conflict with Syagrius "rex Romanorum" --Battle near Soissons; defeat of Syagrius and annexation of his kingdom --Few signs of oppression by the conquerors --Coalescence with the Gallo-Romans --Subsequent wars of Clovis --The siege of Nantes --Clovis and Chlotilde -- Their union favoured by the Church --Story of the wooing of Chlotilde -- The conversion of Clovis in A.D. 496 at the battle of Tolbiac --Defeat of the invasion of the Alemanni --Baptism of Clovis --His motives --Feud of Gundobad and Godegesil --Clovis invades Burgundy in A.D. 500 --The strategy of Aridius saves Burgundy for a time --Why Clovis permitted this revival --Arian and Catholic powers --Frank and Visigoth in conflict at last --Council of Agde, A.D. 506 --S. Rémi sends Clovis as champion of the Church --Battle of Vouglé and defeat of Alaric --Following up the victory --S. Caesarius --His account of the siege of Arles --Theodoric and the Ostrogoths decide to stem the Frank advance --The siege of Arles raised, and Clovis retires northward --Ostrogothic occupation of Southern Gaul
The character and institutions of the Germans not immune from variation -- The Germans of Tacitus idealised --Their long wars must have caused great changes in the German tribes --Growth of royal power through successful war --Adaptation of tribal organisation to wanderings --Modification by Roman civilisation and by the Church --The kingship the sole symbol and organ of the Frank power --Theories as to its character too clear-cut --Its politic adoption of Roman forms --Main characteristics in the sixth century: (1) Hereditary, not elective. (2) Symbol of a peaceful fusion of two great races. (3) Rests fundamentally on absolutism. (4) Supreme in every department --Legislation autocratic --Powers of making war or peace -- A regular army, supplemented by the levée en masse --Difficulties in its discipline --The kingly power reinforced by the "Merovingian legend" -- Hereditary principle paramount --Pretenders: (1) Munderic, (2) Chramnus, (3) Merovech, (4) Gundobald --Taxation, especially the land tax --
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Publication Information: Book Title: Roman Society in Gaul in the Merovingian Age. Contributors: Samuel Dill - author. Publisher: Macmillan. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1926. Page Number: viii.
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