Saint Gregory of Tours (0538–0594)
Autor von Fränkische Geschichte, 3 Bde.
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Gregor von Tours. Zehn Bücher Geschichten: Zehn Bücher Geschichten, Bd.1, Buch 1-5 (2000) 6 Exemplare
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- Gregor von Tours
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Gregorius, Georgius Florentius
- Andere Namen
- Gregorius Turonensis
Gregory of Tours - Geburtstag
- 0538-11-30
- Todestag
- 0594-11-17
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Gallien
Francia - Land (für Karte)
- Frankreich
- Geburtsort
- Arvernis, Gallien (heute Clermont)
- Wohnorte
- Burgund
Tours, Gallien - Berufe
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- Roman Catholic Church
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- Saint Gregory of Tours (30 November c. 538 – 17 November 594) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather.
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Never before have I been so entirely unable to predict where a paragraph is going by the way it starts.
To give just one example. We start with a man walking in the woods, who is then attacked by a swarm of flies, which drives him insane, and turn out to have been sent by Satan. The man, now claiming to be Jesus, gathers a following and sends a group of naked dancers into the local cathedral to proclaim his coming.
Every page is filled with portents, violence, miracles, and bizarre happenings.
Yet among all this strangeness we see that some things have not changed since AD600. Gregory begins his chronicle with the statement, so relatable to us living through Covid-times: "A great many things keep happening, some of them good, some of them bad."
He laments the state of children these days, the decline of learning, and the feeling that the world is soon to end - all sentiments I'm sure have been spoken by every generation before and since.
It's hard to tell how much of this book is fact, how much fiction, and how much a genuine attempt to explain confounding events. Nevertheless it is a wild read from start to finish.… (mehr)