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GREQORY OF TOURS, b. at Arverna, the
present Clermont, the capital of Auvergne, 540; d. at Tours, Nov. 17, 594;
descended from one of the most distinguished Roman families in Gaul. His true
name was Georgius Florentius, which he changed in honor of his maternal
great-grandfather, Bishop Gregory of Langres. Having been educated for the
Church, he was chosen Bishop of Tours in 573, and governed his diocese with
great ability under very difficult circumstances. the wars between Sigebert and
Chilperic, or rather between Brunehild and Fredegund. He owes his great
celebrity, however, principally to his authorship. Besides a work on miracles,
which is hardly read any more, he wrote the Annales Francoruin, which is the
most important, if not the only, source to the history of Gaul in that period.
It was first printed in Paris, 1511, and critically edited by Ruinart, Paris,
1699.
Klüpfel, "Gregory of Tours,"
Philip Schaff, ed., A Religious Encyclopaedia or Dictionary of Biblical,
Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology, 3rd edn, Vol. 2. Toronto,
New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1894. p.908.
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Gregory of
Tours, History of the Franks. Ernest Brehaut, translator. Records of
Civilization, Sources and Studies. New York / London: Columbia University Press
& Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1916. pp.xxv +
284. |
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Gregory
of Tours, Glory of the Confessors, Raymond Van Dam, ed. Liverpool:
Liverpool University Press, 1988. Pbk. ISBN: 0853232261. pp.178. |
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 Gregory of Tours, The
History of the Franks, Lewis Thorpe, translator. Harmondsworth: Penguin
Books, 1974. Pbk. ISBN: 0140442952. pp.720. |
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Gregory
of Tours, Life of the Fathers, Edward James, ed., 2nd edn. Liverpool:
Liverpool University Press, 1990. Pbk. SBN: 0853233276. pp.164. |
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Edward
Peters, ed. Monks, Bishops, and Pagans: Christian Culture in Gaul and Italy,
500-700: Sources in Translation, Including the World of Gregory of Tours.
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975. ISBN: 0812210697. |
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R L Brown, Relics and Social Status in the Age of Gregory of Tours.
University of Reading, Department of History, 1978. Pbk. ISBN: 0704902079.
pp.22. |
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Walter
A. Goffart, The Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 500 - 800).
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. Hbk. ISBN: 0691055149.
pp.112-234. |
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 Martin Heinzelmann, Gregory of Tours,
Christopher Carroll, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Hbk. ISBN: 0521631742. pp.248. |
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R.A. Markus,
"Gregory the Great and a Papal Missionary Strategy," G.J. Cuming, ed.,The Mission of the Church and the Propagation of th Faith. Papers read at the Seventh summer meeting and eighth winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Studies in Church
History, Vol. 6. . Cambridge: Cambridge UNiversity Press,1970. Hbk. pp.29-38. |
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Kathleen
Mitchell & Ian N. Wood, eds. The World of Gregory of Tours,
Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions, Medieval and Early Modern Peoples, Vol. 8.
Hardcover (August 2002) Leiden: E J Brill, 2002. Hbk. ISBN: 9004110348.
pp.408. |
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J.M.
Wallace-Hadrill, "The Work of Gregory of Tours in the Light of Historical
Research," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, 1
(1951): 25-45. |
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J.M.
Wallace-Hadrill, The Long-Haired Kings and Other Studies in Frankish
History. University of Toronto Press Inc., 1982. Pbk. ISBN: 0802065007.
pp.49-70. |
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Ian
Wood, Gregory of Tours. Plantagenet Press Ltd., 1994. Pbk. ISBN:
1873041713. |
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