A Companion to Gregory of Tours: 63 (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004306765 ISBN 13: 9789004306769

Publisher: Brill, 2015

Synopsis

Gregory, bishop of Tours (573-594), was among the most prolific writers of his age and uniquely managed to cover the genres of history, hagiography, and ecclesiastical instruction. He not only wrote about events (of the secular, spiritual, and even natural variety) but about himself as an actor and witness. Though his work (especially the Histories) has been recycled and studied for centuries, our grasp of an even basic understanding of it, never mind Gregory's significance in the history of the late antique West, has hardly yet attained a definitive perspective.
A Companion to Gregory of Tours brings together fourteen scholars who provide an expert guide to interpreting his works, his period, and his legacy in religious and historical studies.

Contributors are: Pascale Bourgain, Roger Collins, John J. Contreni, Stefan Esders, Martin Heinzelmann, Yitzhak Hen, John K. Kitchen, Simon Loseby, Alexander Callander Murray, Patrick Périn, Joachim Pizarro, Helmut Reimitz, Michael Roberts, Richard Shaw.

About this title

About the Author:

Alexander Callander Murray, Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto, received his Ph. D. in 1976 from Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies. He has written on kinship, Beowulf, the institutions of Merovingian Gaul, 'ethnogenesis', and Gregory of Tours.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9004306765
• ISBN 13: 9789004306769
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 686
• Editor: Murray Alexander C