TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Allen E.
TI  - Death and Afterlife in the Pages of Gregory of Tours: Religion and Society in Late Antique Gaul 
T2  - Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
SN  - 9789048540082
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Antiquity
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - Literary Theory, Criticism, and History
KW  - Medieval Studies
KW  - Religion and Theology
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Gregory of Tours, Gaul, History, Death, Afterlife
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Part I. Death --; Part II. Afterlife --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Gregory of Tours was a bishop of late antiquity who was famously devoted to promoting the efficacy of saintly powers. In his writings, both historical and hagiographical, Gregory depicted the saints and reprobates of his age. This book analyses Gregory's writings about death and the afterlife, thereby illuminating the bishop's pastoral imperative to save souls and revealing his opinions about the fates of Merovingian royals, among many others he mentions in his voluminous text. The study provides insight into Gallic peoples living at the dawning of the Middle Ages and their hopes and fears about the otherworld. It offers an original, nuanced interpretation of Gregory's motives for penning his works, particularly the Historiae, which remained unfinished upon the author's death
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048540082?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048540082
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048540082/original
ER  -