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Thanks above all to Régine Le Jan and her colleagues, early medievalists have begunto think in a more concentrated and comparative fashion about elites. They have observed when looking sidelong at late antique and late medieval historiographies a yawning gap in their own back yard, recognised a period-specific scarcity of evidence which helps explain why the gap exists in the first place, and begun systematically to fill it. Though reference to post-founding-fathers sociology has been rare, a glance at some Anglophone work suggests that early medievalists’ new focus on multiple, regional and local elites has, fortuitously or instinctively, gone with a recent social-scientific trend.

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