Gabriel Monod, Fustel de Coulanges et les «aventures de Sichaire» : la naissance de l’histoire scientifique au XIXe siècle
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2006
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Patrick Geary, « Gabriel Monod, Fustel de Coulanges et les «aventures de Sichaire» : la naissance de l’histoire scientifique au XIXe siècle », Publications de l'École Française de Rome, ID : 10670/1.l36ucl
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This article reexamines the controversy between Fustel de Coulanges and Gabriel Monod over the interpretation of the faid between Sichaire and Chramnesinde as told by Gregory of Tours in Book VII, 47 of his Libri Historiarum by placing Monod’s «scientific method» of analysis with the context of nineteenth century German historiography. It suggests that Monod’s method of reading Gregory through the Salic Law was less a brilliant innovation than a faulty expropriation of already out of date German constitutional history and suggests that Fuestel’s «old-fashioned» Romanist reading might be more closely in harmony with more recent understandings of the text, even while recognizing that fundamental misunderstandings of the text by both scholars make its use as a key text in understanding the Frankish blood feud extremely problematic.