De la cité antique au diocèse médiéval. Quelques observations sur la géographie ecclésiastique du Nord de la Gaule mérovingienne

Abstract: „The organization of the north of the ecclesiastical province of Reims took the shape, in Merlovingian times, of the uniting of ancient Roman cities under the authority of a single bishop (Arras and Cambrai, Noyon and Tournai, Boulogne and Thérouanne) that historians have interpreted as an adaptation to a society still ill christianized. This paper aims at showing that other factors may have played a part, as the concern of the monarchy of the Frankish kingdom of Neustria to ensure a better control of the region just out of the civil war (613). What we can understand of the limits be... Mehr ...