To the history of the ancient Germans. Frankish period. Mark. Engels F.

This book contains three works of the outstanding German thinker Friedrich Engels, dedicated to the history of the early Middle Ages. These works are a study of the social system of the ancient Germans and a description of their first clashes with the Romans, an analysis of the rise of material culture, which was survived by the Germanic tribes from the Tacitus era until the time of relocation of peoples; Finally, they set out the main facts characterizing the process of feudalization of Frankish society, mainly in the Carolingian era. The author shows a picture of the early history of the German people, who has not yet reached national unity and decaying into separate tribes; In detail, on the basis of a direct study of sources, it traces the military campaigns of the Romans and their clashes with the Germans; draws the coup in the agrarian system, which was performed in Frankish society and led as a result of the ruin of the free Frankish peasantry to enslave the village-Marke, to the domination of large land ownership.

The book is intended for historians, sociologists, philosophers and representatives of other humanities , as well as all readers who are interested in both the history of ancient peoples and the problems of the development of society.