TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rotman,Tamar
TI  - Hagiography, Historiography, and Identity in Sixth-Century Gaul: Rethinking Gregory of Tours 
T2  - Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
SN  - 9789048551996
AV  - D900 
U1  - 940.1 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Christian saints
KW  - Cult
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Historians
KW  - France
KW  - Merovingians
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Antiquity
KW  - European history: medieval period, middle ages
KW  - European history: the Celts
KW  - European history: the Romans
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - Medieval Studies
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Hagiography, Identity, Merovingians, Ecclesiastical History, Cults of Saints, Early Middle Ages
N1  - Frontmatter --; Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages --; Table of contents --; List of Abbreviations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Gregory of Tours --; 2. ‘When the Saints Go Marching In’: Eastern Saints in Merovingian Gaul --; 3. The Miraculous History of Gregory of Tours --; 4. ‘By Romans They Refer To…’ (Romanos Enim Vocitant): History, Hagiography, and Identity --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora during the twenty years of his episcopacy in Tours. These works serve as important sources for the cultural, social, political and religious history of Merovingian Gaul. This book focuses on Gregory’s hagiographical collections, especially the Glory of the Martyrs, Glory of the Confessors, and Life of the Fathers, which contain accounts of saints and their miracles from across the Mediterranean world. It analyses these accounts from literary and historical perspectives, examining them through the lens of relations between the Merovingians and their Mediterranean counterparts, and contextualizing them within the identity crisis that followed the disintegration of the Roman world. This approach leads to groundbreaking conclusions about Gregory’s hagiographies, which this study argues were designed as an “ecclesiastical history” (of the Merovingian Church) that enabled him to craft a specific Gallo-Christian identity for his audience
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048551996?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048551996
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048551996/original
ER  -