Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

History
Historiae
(Historiae, Histories)
Historiae Francorum
(Historiae francorum, History of the Franks)
Cronica
(Cronica, Chronicle)

Author:

Gregory of Tours

Period covered:

Creation-594

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Full

Genre:

Remarks:

Shortly after the death of Gregory, a reworked version of the first six books started to circulate. Another reworked version in ten books circulated during the Carolingian period. As Reimitz (2015: 52-65) shows, Gregory of Tours structures his account so as to encourage the reader to identify with Christianity rather than with the Franks. In generic terms, the History shows up contacts with all major genres (sacred history, chronicle, ecclesiastical history, and secular history).

Edition - Translation:

L. Thorpe (1974) Gregory of Tours: History of the Franks. London.
M.A. Wes, F.J.A.M. Meijer (1994) Gregorius van Tours: Historiën. Amsterdam.
B. Krusch, W. Levison (1951) Gregorii episcopi Turonensis Opera. Volume One: Libri Historiarum X (Monumenta Germaniae historica: Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 1). Berlin.
W. Giesebrecht, R. Buchner (1955-1956) Gregorius von Tours: Zehn Bücher Geschichten. Darmstadt (reprinted 2000).
P. Herrera (2013) Gregorio: Historias. Extremadura.
K.P. Hilchenbach (2009) Das vierte Buch der Historiën von Gregor von Tours: Edition mit sprachwissenschaftlich-textkritischem und historischem Kommentar. 2 Vols. Frankfurt.
A. Murray (2009). Gregory of Tours. The Merovingians. Peterborough.

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Bibliography:

(1995) Clavis patrum Latinorum (CPL) 1023
A. Breukelaar (1994) Historiography and episcopal authority in sixth-century Gaul: The histories of Gregory of Tours interpreted in their historical context. Göttingen.
P. Chiesa, L. Castaldi (2004) La trasmissione dei testi latini del Medioevo: Mediaeval Latin texts and their transmission. Volume One (Millennio medievale, 50). Florence: 152-182.
M. Coumert (2007) Origines des peuples. Les récits du Haut Moyen Age occidental (550-850) (Collection des Etudes Augustiniennes. Série Moyen Age et Temps Modernes, 42). Paris.
N. Gauthier, H. Galinie (1997) (eds.) Grégoire de Tours et l'espace gaulois. Tours.
S. Ghosh (2016) Writing the barbarian past: Studies in early medieval historical narrative. Leiden.
W. Goffart (1988) The narrators of barbarian history (A.D. 550-800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede and Paul the Deacon. Princeton.
G. Halsall (2007) 'The preface to Book V of Gregory of Tours' Histories: Its form, context and significance'. English Historical Review 122: 297-317.
M. Heinzelmann (2001) Gregory of Tours: History and society in the sixth century. Cambridge.
M. Heinzelmann (1994) Gregor von Tours (538-594): Zehn Bücher Geschichte, Historiographie und Gesellschaftskonzept im 6. Jahrhundert. Darmstadt.
A. Murray (2016) A companion to Gregory of Tours. Leiden.
H. Reimitz (2015) History, Frankish identity and the framing of Western ethnicity, 550-850. Cambridge.
I. Wood, K. Mitchell (2002) (ed.) The world of Gregory of Tours. Leiden.