Merovingian Princes and Gregory of Tours



Merovingian Princes and Gregory of Tours

Project Statement

For my thesis, I have chosen to focus my research on Merovingian Princes and Gregory of Tour. My research will be focused on the relation between the Merovingian Princes and Gregory of Tour. The content offered is primarily a condensed rendition of Earnest Brehaut's Gregory of Tour's History of the Franks made by in 1916. The paper is in question that “What is the significance of the relationship between the Merovingian Princes and Gregory of Tour and how it presented prejudices and opinions would not be upheld by modern historians?”

The research will focus on the Merovingians were the dynasty that ruled over a large part of France and Belgium today, as well as part of Germany and Switzerland, the fifth century until the mid- eighth century .This line is from the people of the Salian Franks who had settled in the fifth century in the areas of Cambrai and Tournai in Belgium.

An inadequate number of modern sources depict the olden times of the Merovingian Franks, but those that endure envelop the whole period from Clovis' progression to Childeric's declaration. First amid chroniclers of the era is the canonized bishop of tour, Gregory of Tours. Aside from these chronicles, the only existing basin of historiography is letters, capitularies.Clerical men such as Sulpitius the Pious and Gregory and was letter-writers, though comparatively few letters carry on. Edicts, grants, and judicial decisions survive, as well as the famous Lex Salica, mention above. From the sovereignty of Dagobert I and Clotaire II live to tell the tale by countless examples of the royal situation as the superlative justice and ultimate arbiter.

The history of the Merovingians is marked by the emergence of a strong Christian culture among the aristocracy, the gradual establishment of the Church in their territory and some recovery occurring after the collapse of the Roman Empire. This reflection on the scope of successive divisions of the kingdom, however, should not obscure the reality of the Merovingian dynasty known at the closing stages of the sixth century with the purpose of bloody conflict. Gregory of Tours relates them to the Merovingians.

The original title of the book is Ten history books (Decem libros historiarum). It is a universal story of the world and of the Church, written in a perspective eschatological , from Genesis to the reigns of the kings of the Franks, in 572 , to which is added a collection of life stories of saints Gallic composed of 574 to the death of Gregory and gathered under the name of book (s) of miracles.

The language of Gregory of Tours is the Latin as it was spoken in Gaul, far from the Latin classic or imperial. Prejudice that followed was until recently one of the causes of the general ignorance of the High Middle Ages. This time was considered simplistically as a period of decline of civilization. To be convinced of the seriousness and precision of the style of Gregory of ...