Possibly that might have aided my recall. I'd travel back in the evening and would often stop in a pub off Villiers Street named after George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham from The Three Musketeersa curious place partly under the station - it had an extension on the other side of the street, if I was clever enough I could arrive after the various city types had gone home, drink a pint, and read a bit of Gregory of Tours before catching a train from Charing Cross back into Kent.Īs a Gallio-Roman the ghost of that Bishop of Tours would probably have preferred wine to be drunk in his memory as I read of the plotting, scheming and infighting of the long-haired Kings of France. I got this while studying something that had nothing to do with the Franks, in London. Accessed.“A great many things keep happening, some of them good, some of them bad”.

“An Introduction to the Histories of Gregory of Tours,” Middle Ages for Educators, April 17, 2020.

Ian Wood and Kathleen Mitchell, eds, The World of Gregory of Tours (Boston: Brill, 2002).

Murray, ed., A Companion to Gregory of Tours (Boston: Brill, 2016). Murray, Gregory of Tours: The Merovingians (Peterborough: University of Toronto Press, 2006).

Guy Halsall, ‘The Preface to Book V of Gregory of Tours’ Histories: Its Form, Contents, and Significance’ The English Historical Review 122:496 (2007), pp.

Dailey, Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and the Women of the Merovingian Elite (Leiden: Brill, 2015). Lewis Thorpe (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974).

Gregory of Tours, The History of the Franks, trans.

Other Readings (available to purchase as e-books or online via library subscriptions) Wood, ‘ The Secret Histories of Gregory of Tours’, Revue belge de Philologie et d’Histoire 71:2 (1993), pp. Ernest Brehaut (New York: Columbia University Press, 1916).

Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks, trans.

What characterises Gregory’s portraits of Merovingian queens?.

Why does Gregory tell us the things that he does?.

What do Gregory’s own statements about his writing tell us about his choices as a writer?.

Gregory of Tours (539-594): History of the Franks: Books I-X Discussion Questions

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