Franks
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The Franks first come to light in the third century A.D. as a group of barbarians living in the marshy lowlands of the Rhine frontier of the Roman Empire. By 800 they had become the political heirs of the Romans in the West.
Edward James
Edward James read history at Oxford, and then did research on the archaeology of south-west Gaul in the early Middle Ages. He taught at University College Dublin between 1970 and 1978, and is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies, at the University of York.
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