The use of Merovingian history as a cultural and political model for American writers in the early years of the post-revolution United States.

Gregory I. Halfond is Professor of History at Framingham State University. His prior publications include The Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils, AD 511-768 (2010), The Medieval Way of War (2015), and Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul (2019).