1. The following abbreviations are used in this chapter: MGH = Monumenta Germaniae Historica; MGH Cap. = Capitularia regum Francorum, 2 vols, ed. Alfred Boretius and Viktor Krause (Hanover, 1883–1897); MGH Epp. = Epistolae Merowingici et Karolini aevi. MGH Epistolae, III–VIII (Berlin, 1892–1939); MGH SRG = Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi (Hanover, 1871-); MGH SRM = Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 7 vols, ed. Bruno Krusch and Willhelm Levison (Hanover, 1885–1951); PL = Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Latina. 221 vols, ed. J.-P. Migne (Paris, 1841–1864); VG = Vita Gangulfi martyris Varennensis, ed. Willhelm Levison (Hanover, 1919) (MGH SRM 7), pp. 155–170.
2. VG. A French translation is given in J.-P. Royer and M. Goullet, ‘La vie de saint Gengoul (BHL 3328)’, Annales de Bourgogne, 75 (2003), 351–73.
3. Collection des journèe de la Facultè de droit Jean-Monnet;J-P Poly,1992
4. M. Goullet, ‘Les Vies de Saint Gengoul, époux et martyr’, in M. Lauwers (ed.), Guerriers et moines: conversion et sainteté aristocratiques dans l’Occident medieval (IXe–XIIe siècle) (Antibes, 2002), pp. 235–63, on p. 237.
5. J.-P. Poly, ‘Gengoul’, pp. 54–7. On Hrotsvit see K.M. Wilson, Hrotsvit of Gandesheim:The Ethics of Authorial Stance (Leiden, 1988).