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History of the Lombards (The Middle Ages Series) null Edition

by Paul the Deacon (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars 6 customer reviews
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Product Details

  • Series: The Middle Ages Series
  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press; null edition (February 1, 1975)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0812210794
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812210798
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 8 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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By 65 yr. old Chicagoan on April 5, 2010
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I'm researching the story of the Lombards and, as is so often the case when dealing with the Early Middle Ages, there are few contemporary sources of information. This renders invaluable Paul the Deacon's account of the invasion of Northern Italy by Germanic tribes such as the Lombards. Though writing two-hundred years after the victory of the Lombard King Alboin and the resulting years of Lombard rule (568-744), Paul the Deacon not only supplies valuable factual information, but charms with his style. I would suggest taking the writer of the Introduction seriously when he warns that part of Paul's history is the result of traditional recounting of events two centuries before he began to write. Also, I found it helpful to scan the footnotes of each chapter before reading the text. This allowed me gain insight into the mind of Paul the Deacon himself. Here was a man who lived in dangerous times, his brother a man of power significant enough to challenge that of Charlemagne himself. His fate was always open to the whims and actions of others, yet he wrote as if he was his own man, perhaps escaping happily into his own world, one in which he could openly be himself. It's a terrific read even if you're not searching for facts.
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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Low rating for this edition of the book
By J. Battle on November 2, 2005
Format: Paperback
My rating is specifically for this publication of the work, not the work itself. I hope this doesn't come off as too picky - but I had a hard time really absorbing this work because of the font selected and the way the footnotes are organized. Some of the footnotes ran several pages long - taking up the entire page. The commentary was interesting, but often 3-5 pages would go by with only one line of the original text per page (literally!!!); the remainder of the page being taken up with commentary, some of which was rather tangential to the text. I found it very difficult to follow the main narrative.

Regarding the text itself, I need to read it again to be able to comment fairly - read the remainder with a grain of salt. The book is written somewhat in the fashion of a chronicle - largely a chronological list of which dukes ruled where and when. Frequent interruptions by the Franks and Byzantium make life interesting for the Lombards. The book covers a period of a few hundred years, and you don't get the amount of detail or characterization you get from say Gregory of Tours. The focus is what you'd expect from a churchman - comings and goings of kings, dukes, and bishops.

I read this book because I heard it gave some insight into the transition of Italy from the Roman to the German/Western/Post-Roman world. But I didn't find too much on that score. That might be partly due to wrong expectations, partly due to my inexperience with the book, but I think it's partly due to the fact that a lot of the insight comes from analysis of latin technical (legal) terms, which is way over my head.

In summary, I enjoyed the book enough to want to read it again, but not unless I can find a different publication of the book, one more friendly to the reader. Or even a different translation, if one were to surface.
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Enjoyable leisure reading, believe it or not
By buddhawannabe on March 17, 2014
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Paul the Deacon doesn't get the press that Gregory of Tours or Anna Comnena get, but Paul is actually one of the more readable and enjoyable of medieval historians. No great insights, here, just amusing stories (some more likely to be factual than others) that help you rough in a background to the period of the Great Migrations. Yeah, there are a lot of long footnotes, as some other reviewer complained. You might find them useful because they provide a context that Paul the Deacon does not, but guess what, it's a free country! If you don't want to read the footnotes, YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ THE FOOTNOTES!
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