1. For an excellent survey of Merovingian history, see I.N. Wood, The Merovingian Kingdoms, 450–751 (London and New York, 1994).
2. See also J.M. WallaceHadrill, The Long-Haired Kings (London, 1962)
3. P.J. Geary, Before France and Germany. The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World (New York and Oxford, 1988)
4. E. Ewig, Die Merowinger und das Frankenreich, 2nd edn (Stuttgart, Berlin and Cologne, 1993)
5. M. Hartmann, Aufbruch ins Mittelalter: Die Zeit der Merowinger (Darmstadt, 2003)