Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century
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Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century
Book Details
- Author
- Martin Heinzelmann
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780521631747
- ISBN-10
- 0521631742
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ISBN: 0521631742
Author: Heinzelmann, Martin
Condition: New
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.
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