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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
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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
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“Frankish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Frankish. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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