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Monday, 11 June 2018
Gregory of Tours: Clovis becomes a Christian.
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Some 4 years ago I published a post about Clotilde’s attempt to converse her husband Clovis (Latin Chlodovechus) to Roman Christianity...
Thursday, 23 June 2016
Gregory of Tours 7.20: competing women.
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Anyone interested in mediaeval heroic lays knows queen Brünhild, the legendary queen from Das Nibelungenlied and the Valkyrie Brynhildr...
Monday, 2 November 2015
Gregory of Tours: the merry widow of Tours.
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Gregory of Tours (c. 538 – 17 November 594) did in his Historia Francorum not confine himself to main political and social events, but...
Thursday, 24 July 2014
Gregory of Tours 2.29: Clotilda tries to convert Clovis to Christianity,
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Mediaeval historians wrote their narratives form the perspective of a linear evolving time with the creation as its beginning and the r...
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