German History: ??? - Early Medieval

Hello,
I came to inquire as to what sources you all have for the history of Germany up until the Early Medieval Period (it does not have to span all the way back to the ethnogenesis of the Germans-- a source discussing Late Antiquity, for example, is very much appreciated, sources on Frankish-era Germania even more so)

This is in preparation for a TL I'm considering.

I'd prefer sources that concentrate especially on Germanic social/political/economic organization-- for example:
- Germanic Law / methods of governance
- Germanic settlements (if I remember correctly, they possessed no real cities, but did have some settlements that were a step above villages when near trade routes)
- The German economy
- Eventual growth of cities in Germany
 
Almost all of the relevant narrative sources and a good deal of documentary material are avbailable online for free.

Monumenta Germaniae Historica, a collection of historiography and law covering the 19th century conception of the German Middle Ages, starting with the Germanic tribes. It includes a lot of the law codes and capitularies as well as most important chronicles. THe site navigation is in German, but the documents are original, so no worries.

http://www.mgh.de/dmgh/

More modern online sources can be found through a variety of other providers. Here's a link list from Münster University (again, German, but the original titles are provided).

http://www.uni-muenster.de/Geschichte/Studieren/Materialien/Mittelalter/Proseminar/Quellen/

Some more annalistic texts and narrative resources

http://141.84.81.24/volltexte/content.htm

Once you know you are interested in an author, you can search here (but this is definitely not for browsing)

http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/authors_a.html

Unfortunately, the Acta Sanctorum are subscription-based only.

REgarding secondary material (you will need it, interpreting sources from back then is hard), what kind of library do you have access to, and what languages do you read?
 
I have access to JSTOR, and I read English mostly.

With JSTOR, your problem is going to be limiting the quantity, not getting access. Unfortunately, I am not that well informed about ciurrent research into German history in the anglosphere. As a more general Early Medieval starting pint, I would always recommend Chris Wickham's books. You can use the bibliography to find more, but he's very multilingual.
 
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