Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century
Book Details
Author(s)Martin Heinzelmann
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN / ASIN0521636388
ISBN-139780521636384
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Sales Rank1,754,856
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Description
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.
