For 1400 years Gregory's Histories--the principal work of Merovingian history--have been understood as a "history of the Franks" and as an objective portrayal of history, albeit told by a naive narrator. This completely new interpretation of the Histories reveals connections between apparently unconnected, adjacent chapters, and also begins to make out their real function. Gregory (538-594) can be seen as focusing on the development of a socio-political concept of society, which anticipates the leadership of the Christian state entrusted to the joint government of bishops and king.

Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century

Heinzelmann, Martin

Biographies & Memoirs

Cambridge University Press

History

Europe

iii 305p paperback, index, bibliography, appendices, very good

Écrire une Thèse ou un Mémoire en sciences humaines. (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des hautes études, IVe section, Sciences historiques et philologiques) (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

H. Champion

Gregor von Tours (538-594): "zehn Bücher Geschichte" : Historiographie und Gesellschaftskonzept im 6. Jahrhundert (German Edition)

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft

Francia: Register Der Bande 1-10 (German Edition)

Jan Thorbecke Verlag

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