Saint Gregory of Tours (0538–0594)
Autore di A History of the Franks
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Opere di Saint Gregory of Tours
L'Histoire des rois francs 2 copie
Histoire Ecclésiastique des Francs, Vol. 2: Évêque de Tours, en Dix Livres; Revue Et Collationnée sur de Nouveaux… (2017) 1 copia
Frankerkrønike I og II 1 copia
Gregoire de Tours, La Gloire Des Martyrs (Classiques de L'Histoire Au Moyen Age) (French Edition) (2020) 1 copia
Ascetical works 1 copia
The Miracles of Bishop Martin 1 copia
Brunhilde und Fredegunde, Fränkische Königsgeschichten — Autore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Saint Gregory of Tours
- Nome legale
- Gregorius, Georgius Florentius
- Altri nomi
- Gregorius Turonensis
Gregory of Tours
Gregorio di Tours - Data di nascita
- 0538-11-30
- Data di morte
- 0594-11-17
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Gaul
- Luogo di nascita
- Arvernis, Gaul (now Clermont, France)
- Luogo di residenza
- Burgundy (now France)
Tours, Gaul (now France) - Attività lavorative
- Bishop
Historian - Organizzazioni
- Roman Catholic Church
- Breve biografia
- Saint Gregory of Tours (30 November c. 538 – 17 November 594) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather.
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- Utenti
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- 43
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Never before have I been so entirely unable to predict where a paragraph is going by the way it starts.
To give just one example. We start with a man walking in the woods, who is then attacked by a swarm of flies, which drives him insane, and turn out to have been sent by Satan. The man, now claiming to be Jesus, gathers a following and sends a group of naked dancers into the local cathedral to proclaim his coming.
Every page is filled with portents, violence, miracles, and bizarre happenings.
Yet among all this strangeness we see that some things have not changed since AD600. Gregory begins his chronicle with the statement, so relatable to us living through Covid-times: "A great many things keep happening, some of them good, some of them bad."
He laments the state of children these days, the decline of learning, and the feeling that the world is soon to end - all sentiments I'm sure have been spoken by every generation before and since.
It's hard to tell how much of this book is fact, how much fiction, and how much a genuine attempt to explain confounding events. Nevertheless it is a wild read from start to finish.… (altro)