Gregory of Tours: The Merovingians (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures) [1 ed.] 1551115239, 9781551115238

Georgius Florentius Gregorius, better known to posterity as Gregory, Bishop of Tours, was born about 538 to a highly dis

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Gregory of Tours: The Merovingians (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures) [1 ed.]
1551115239, 9781551115238

Among the readings included are several existing letters by Emma (Einhard's wife), The Life of Charlemagne, and The

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of

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Gregory of Tours was a bishop of late antiquity who was famously devoted to promoting the efficacy of saintly powers. In

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Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora

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Gregory of Tours hoped to inspire the believers in sixth-century Gaul with examples of righteous and wicked deeds and th

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Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora

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The Book of the Miracles of the Blessed Andrew the Apostle (Liber de miraculis beati Andreae apostoli), long regarded as

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Gregory of Tours was a bishop of late antiquity who was famously devoted to promoting the efficacy of saintly powers. In

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Compunction was one of the most important emotions for medieval Christianity; in fact, through its confessional function

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