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The novel describes souls who, in the wheel of time, inhabit the Frankish king Clovis’ horse, or a bedbug that fed on Napoleon.—
Nicholas Dames,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025 The cemetery also holds foreign objects like Scandinavian and Frankish grave goods, which researchers say reflect a changing political landscape in fifth- and sixth-century England.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Jan. 2025 The Acropolis was then home to a jumble of buildings, including not just the ancient temple—which, for a time, had been turned into a Christian church—but also a Frankish tower and various seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Turkish structures.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
6 May 2024