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The world of Gregory of Tours

Author: Kathleen Mitchell; I N Wood
Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.
Series: Cultures, beliefs, and traditions, v. 8.
Edition/Format:  Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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These essays evaluate the life, works and world of Gregory of Tours, the 6th-century bishop, best known as writer of the "History of the Franks". Though the contributors take full account of his  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Congresses
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
World of Gregory of Tours.
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002
(OCoLC)606904744
Named Person: Gregory, Saint Bishop of Tours; Grégoire, évêque de Tours saint; Gregor, von Tours.
Material Type: Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Kathleen Mitchell; I N Wood
ISBN: 9004110348 9789004110342
OCLC Number: 49627680
Description: xx, 445 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The individuality of Gregory of Tours / Ian Wood --
From the ancient city to the Medieval town : continuity and change in the early Middle Ages / Nancy Gauthier --
Settlements and cemeteries in Merovingian Gaul / Patrick Périn --
Via iustitiae : the biblical sources of justice in Gregory of Tours / William Monroe --
Gregory of Tours and sixth-century Anglo-Saxon England / Barbara Yorke --
Gregory of Tours and contemporary perceptions of Lombard Italy / Walther Pohl --
Gregory of Tours and the Roman Church / Thomas F.X. Noble --
Women at the tomb : access to relic shrines in the early Middle Ages / Julia M.H. Smith --
Inacessible cloisters : Gregory of Tours and Episcopal exemption / B.H. Rosenwein --
Chastity as a third gender in the history and hagiography of Gregory of Tours / Jo Ann McNamara --
Apostolicity theses in Gaul : the histories of Gregory and the "hagiography" of Bayeux / Felice Lifschitz --
Paganism and superstitions in the time of Gregory of Tours : une question mal posée! / Yitzak Hen --
The Merovingian Church in Carolingian retrospective / Janet L. Nelson --
History and miracle : Gregory's use of metaphor / Giselle de Nie --
Divine power flowed from his book : Ascetic language and Episcopal authority in Gregory of Tours' Life of the Fathers / Conrad Leyser --
Making the bounds : the distant past in Gregory's history / Kathleen Mitchell --
Gregory of Tours and the conversion of the Jews of Clermont / E.M. Rose --
clovis Augustus and Merovingian imitatio imperii / S. Fanning --
Nero and Herod? The death of Chilperic and Gregory's writings of history / Guy Halsall --
Gregory of Tours as a military historian / Bernard S. Bachrach --
Conspicuously absent : martial heroism in the Histories of Gregory of Tours and its likes / Walter Goffart --
History, romance, love and sex in Gregory of Tours' Decem libri historiarum / Danuta Shanzer --
Reading Gregory of Tours in the Middle Ages / John J. Contreni.
Series Title: Cultures, beliefs, and traditions, v. 8.
Responsibility: edited by Kathleen Mitchell and Ian Wood.
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