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           Internet Medieval Sourcebook 
          Selected Sources: Early Germanic Peoples and States 
           
          Contents 
        
          
            
             
          
          Romanized (Christian) Goths
          
          Vandals 
          
          Ostrogoths
            
           
          
          Visigoths
            
           
         
            --In Gaul 
         
         
          
           --In Spain 
          
            - Third Council of Toledo: The Visigoth Conversion to Catholicism 589 PDF [At Catholic Culture] [Internet Archive version here]
 
            - Creed of the Council of Toledo, 675
 
            - Professions of Faith Extracted from Jews on Baptism,
              Visigothic and Byzantine
 
            - Fourth Council of Toledo: Division of the Tithe in
              Spain, 633
 
            - The Jews of Spain
              and the Visigothic Code, 654-681  
 
            - The Visigothic Code (Forum iudicum) ed. and trans. by S.P. Scott PDF (Print edition: Boston
              Book Company, 1910) [Also here at Internet Archive]. Also available in Latin [At MDZ]
 
            - The Visigothic Code (Book II: On Justice), trans Ralph W. Ewton (MA Thesis, 1961) PDF [Internet Archive version here]
 
            - Isidore of Seville (c.560-636): Chronicon, trans. Kenneth Wolf (2004), full  text [At Tertullian] [Internet Archive version here]
 
            - Isidore of Seville (c.560-636): The Etymologies, trans.Ernest Brehaut (1912), very long excerpts/full  text, PDF [Internet Archive version here]
 
            - La necrópolis de época visigoda de Castiltierra (Segovia) 1932-1935  Materiales conservados en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional (The Visigothic necropolis of Castiltierra (Segovia) Excavations directed by E. Camps and J. M.ª de Navascués, 1932-1935. Materials preserved in the National Archaeological Museum) [Internet Archive]
 
           
           Lombards
           
          
           
          Non-Christian Germans
          Franks
            
           
          
            - The Ripuarian Law: Inheritance of Allodial Land, c.
              450
 
            - Tomb of Childeric, modern archeological report [At ArchEurope] [internet Archive version here]
 
            - Gregory of Tours (539-594): On
              Clovis and the Vase at Soissons, from History of the Franks, Book II. These are
              different selections than in Tierney. Geary has much longer selection from Books II and
              IX, from a copyrighted translation, but see next item. See also
              
              Catholic Encyclopedia: The Franks
 
            - The Conversion of Clovis: Two Accounts, 496 
 
              by The Chronicle of St. Denis, and Gregory of Tours. 
            - Gregory of Tours (539-594): History of the Franks,
              6th century. 
              Complete text of Earnest Brehaut's  abridged translation 1916.
 
            - Gregory of Tours (539-594): History of the Franks,
              6th century. 
              Complete text of O.M. Dalton's complete 1927 translation 1927 PDF [At Internet Acrchive]
 
            - Gregory of Tours (539-594): The Conversion of
              Clovis, from History of the Franks, Book II..
 
            - Fifth Council of Orleans: Concerning Freedmen, 549 
 
            - Gregory of Tours: Enslaving Noble Families, 511 
 
            - Gregory of Tours (539-594): Church Exemption from
              Taxation, c. 570 
 
            - Gregory of Tours (539-594): Exemption of Tours from
              Poll Tax, c. 585 
 
            - Gregory of Tours (539-594): Exemption of the Church in
              Clermont from Royal Taxes, c. 590 
 
            - Gregory of Tours (539-594): Harsh Treatment of Serfs
              and Slaves, c. 575 
 
            - Gregory of Tours (539-594): Opposition to Royal
              Taxation, c. 575-580 
 
            - Gregory of Tours (539-594): Episodes of Medieval Warfare from the History of the Franks [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
 
            - Remigius of Reims: Letter to Clovis [at Lincoln]  [Internet Archive version here]
 
            - Avitus : Letter 46 to Clovis [See article by Danuta Shanzer here] [Internet Archive version here]
 
            - Gregory of Tours (539-594): Life of St. Gall,
              from Lives of the Fathers, (539-594). 
 
            - Law of the Salian Franks
 
            - Dado of Rouen: The Life of Eligius , 588-660 CE, trans,
              Jo Ann McNamara.
 
            - St. Eligius: Redemption of Slaves, c. 630 
 
            - Tolls on the Rhône, c. 630
 
            - Dagobert, King of the Franks: Grant of an Estate to
              Monks of St. Denis, 635 
 
            - Testament of St Bercharius establising the Abbey of Montierender, 663 [At Wikisource]
 
           
          Anglo-Saxons
            
           
          
   Northlands/Scandinavia
            
           
          
           
          German Cultures
          
          
   
            
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