{"id":1113,"date":"2017-09-10T23:13:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T20:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/?page_id=1113"},"modified":"2026-05-30T16:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:36:44","slug":"vol-1-dumezil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/volumina\/vox-medii-aevi-vol-1\/vol-1-dumezil\/","title":{"rendered":"2017-1-\u0414\u044e\u043c\u0435\u0437\u0438\u043b\u044c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For citation: <em>Dum\u00e9zil B.<\/em> Letters for the Good of All. Definition and Eulogy of the \u00abCommon Good\u00bb in the Merovingian Correspondence [Digital resource] \/\/ Vox medii aevi. 2017. Vol. 1(1). P. 71\u201389. URL: <span id=\"sample-permalink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/vol-1-dumezil\/\">https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/<span id=\"editable-post-name\">vol-1-dumezil<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u200e<span id=\"edit-slug-buttons\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"titlediv\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Vox-medii-aevi.-Vol.-1-1-2017_\u0414\u044e\u043c\u0435\u0437\u0438\u043b\u044c_71-89.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span id=\"sample-permalink\">&gt;Download the article<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #bc1616;\">__________________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Bruno Dum\u00e9zil<\/h3>\n<p>Associate Professor (ma\u00eetre de conf\u00e9rences) in medieval history, University Paris X (Paris, France)<\/p>\n<h3>Letters for the Good of All. Definition and Eulogy of the \u00abCommon Good\u00bb in the Merovingian Correspondence<\/h3>\n<p>Although the Merovingians have no political literature that can be compared to that of later centuries, they know the notion of \u00abcommon good\u00bb. Indeed, letters addressed to the king, to flatter or to advise him, all insist on the idea that monarchy should act for the happiness of all men. But, following the tradition of late Antiquity, this rhetoric turns out to be very flexible: depending on the epoch, \u00abcommon good\u00bb can underwrite military imperialism, conversion of the royal function to Christianity, or the growing power of aristocracy. The article translated from French<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key words:<\/strong> Common good; political theory; Merovingian Gaul; monarchy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #bc1616;\">__________________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1092,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1113","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52836,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1113\/revisions\/52836"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}