À l’occasion du départ à la retraite du Professeur Franco Morenzoni (Université de Genève), le présent ouvrage réunit un certain nombre de ses travaux les plus marquants consacrés à l’actuelle Suisse occidentale au Moyen Âge.

Archaeologists and historians working in southern and northern Europe, explore diverse evidence — from landscape and burial archaeology to charters and chronicles — to discuss the relationships that constituted neighbourhoods and roles these played in the processes of state formation that can be observed in the peripheries of the Frankish world.

Borman was a virtuoso, a master but above all an innovator, who influenced many other sculptors.