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Gregory of Tours

Saint. ?538--?594 ad, Frankish bishop and historian. His Historia Francorum is the chief source of knowledge of 6th-century Gaul. Feast day: Nov. 17

Gregory of Tours

(original name, Georgius Floren-tius). Born around 540 in Clermont-Ferrand; died around 594 in Tours. Historian of the Franks.

The descendant of a noble Gallo-Roman family from Auvergne, Gregory became bishop of Tours in 573. He was one of the most influential Church figures in the Merovingian state. His History of the Franks (written in Latin, ten books), which deals with events up to 591 A.D. is our chief source for the political history of the Frankish state of the fifth and sixth centuries. The work served as the main source for A. Thierry’s Tales From Merovingian Times (A. Thierry, Izbr. soch., Moscow. 1937).

WORKS

Gregorii Turonensis Historia francorum. In Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, vol. 1. 1951.
Gregor von Tours, Zehn Bücher Geschichten, vols. 1–2. Published by R. Buchner. Berlin, 1955–56.

REFERENCE

Vainshtein, O. L. Zapadnoevropeiskaia srednevekovaia istoriografiia. Moscow-Leningrad, 1964.

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Nilus the Elder of Sinai and Gregory of Tours stressed the sinfulness of resorting to medicine instead of trusting to the intercession of saints.

Who killed Neil Beagley? by Granados, Luis / The Humanist

The fifth century historian, Gregory of Tours, on the other hand, is not so much interested in the condemned as in the execution as social fact.

The literature of capital punishment by Phillips, Tom / Contemporary Review

She provides us with Gregory of Nyssa's life of his sister, Macrina; a generous selection of Saint Jerome's writings on the ascetic women of his era in Rome, Egypt, and Palestine; Palladius's lives of Melania the Elder and Melania the Younger; Gerontius's Life of the Holy Macrina; and, finally, early medieval Gallic documents relating to the life of the royal Radegunde, written by such luminaries as Gregory of Tours and Venantius Fortunatus (the fine hymnist).

The Struggle for Theology's Soul: Contesting Scripture in Christology by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal

Grégoire, Henri

Gregor Johann Mendel

Gregor Piatigorsky

Gregor-Tajovsky, Josef

Gregor-Tajovský, Josef