The History of the Franks Gregory of Tours

Sources

The following represent key modern texts on Gregory of Tours, including the most recent translations of his work.

While Lewis Thorpe's translation of The History of the Franks is more accessible than Brehaut's, his introduction and commentary are not well regarded by contemporary historians (see Secondary sources, below).

Primary sources

Editions

  • Gregorii episcopi Turonensis. Libri Historiarum X (ed. Bruno Krusch and Wilhelm Levison), MGH SRM I 1, Hannover2 1951
  • Miracula et opera minora (ed. Bruno Krusch), MGH SRM I 2, Hannover 1969, 211-294 (repr. from 1885)

Translations

  • Fränkische Geschichte. 3 vols. (transl. by Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, rev. by Manfred Gebauer), Essen 1988.
  • From Roman to Merovingian Gaul. A Reader (ed. and transl. Alexander Callander Murray; Readings in medieval Civilisations and Cultures 5), Toronto 2000, 287-446
  • Glory of the confessors (ed. and transl. Raymond Van Dam; Translated Texts for Historians 4), Liverpool 2004 (2nd edition), ISBN 0-85323-226-1.
  • Glory of the Martyrs (ed. and transl. Raymond Van Dam; Translated Texts for Historians 3), Liverpool 2004 (2nd edition), ISBN 0-85323-236-9.
  • Liber de passione et virtutibus sancti Iuliani martyris und Libri de virtutibus sancti Martini episcopi, in: Raymond Van Dam (ed.), Saints and their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul, Princeton 1993, 153–317.
  • Life of the Fathers (ed. and transl. James Edward; Translated Texts for Historians 1), Liverpool 1991 (2nd edition), ISBN 0-85323-327-6.
  • The History of the Franks (transl. M. Dalton), Oxford 1927.
  • The History of the Franks (transl. L. Thorpe), Penguin 1974.
  • Historias (transl. P. Herrera), Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Extremadura, 2013, ISBN 978-84-7723-190-5
  • Histoire des Franks, in French
  • Vita Patrum (ed. and transl. Fr. Seraphim Rose), St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1988, ISBN 0-938635-23-9.

Bilingual editions

  • Les livres des miracles et autres opuscules de Georges Florent Grégoire évêque de Tours (ed. and transl. Léonard Bordier), vol. 1, Paris 1857.
  • Zehn Bücher Geschichten. Band I-II.(ed. and transl. Wilhelm Giesebrecht and Rudolf Buchner), Darmstadt 1955–1956.

Secondary sources

  • Bianchi, Dante, Da Gregorio Di Tours a Paolo Diacono, Aevum, Anno XXXV, Fasc. 1/2 (1961), pp. 150-166.
  • Bonnet, Max, Le Latin de Grégoire de Tours, Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1890.
  • Brown, Peter, The Cult of the Saints, London 1981.
  • Butzmann, Hans, Die Wolfenbütteler Fragmente der Historien des Gregor von Tours, Scriptorium, XX/1 (Année 1966), pp. 31-40
  • Caires, Valerie Anne, Evagrius Scholasticus and Gregory of Tours: A Literary Comparison, Unpublished PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1976.
  • Cameron, Averil, "The Byzantine Sources of Gregory of Tours", The Journal of Theological Studies, New Series, Vol. XXVI, No. 2 (October 1975), pp. 421-426.
  • Choda, Kamil, "Intellectual Sources of Historian's Legitimization - The Case of Gregory of Tours", Classica Cracoviensia, Vol. XVIII (2015), pp. 111-124.
  • Choda, Kamil, "The Religious Other in the Histories of Gregory of Tours", Classica Cracoviensia, Vol. XVII (2014), pp. 5-19.
  • Cuzzolin, Pierluigi, Osservazioni sul rapporto tra grafia e fonetica nel latino di Gregorio di Tours, XI Congreso International sobre el Latín Vulgar y Tardío (Oviedo, 1-5 de septiembre de 2014), eds. García Leal, Alfonso, Prieto Entrialgo, Clara Elena, Hildesheim Zürich Olms-Weidmann, 2017, p. 193-206.
  • Dailey, E.T., Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite, Leiden, Brill, 2015.
  • Diem, Albrecht, "Gregory's Chess Board: Monastic Conflict and Competition in Early Medieval Gaul", in Compétition et sacré au haut Moyen Âge: entre médiation et exclusion, Philippe Depreux, François Bougard and Régine Le Jan (eds.), Brepols, Turnhout 2015, pp. 165–191.
  • Ersoy, Tolga, "Gregorius Turonensis'in 'Decem Libri Historiarum' Adlı Yapıtında Hunlara ve Avarlara Dair Kayıtların Değerlendirilmesi", Bozkırın Oğlu: Ahmet Taşağıl'a Armağan, ed. Tuğba Eray Biber, İstanbul, 2019, pp. 115-122.
  • Goetz, Hans-Werner, "Grégoire de Tours: (comment) a-t-il perçu une «coopétition»?", Coopétition: Rivaliser, coopérer dans les sociétés du haut Moyen Âge (500-1100) (Haut Moyen Âge, 31), eds. Régine Le Jan, Geneviève Bührer-Thierry, and Stefano Gasparri, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2018, pp. 49-60.
  • Goffart, Walter, "Foreigners in the Histories of Gregory of Tours", Florilegium, Vol. IV, No. 1 (1982), 80-89.
  • Goffart, Walter, The Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550–800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede and Paul the Deacon, Princeton 1988.
  • Hailstone, Catherine-Rose, Fear in the Mind and Works of Gregory of Tours, Unpublished PhD thesis, University of York, 2020.
  • Heinzelmann, Martin, Gregory of Tours: History and Society in the Sixth Century, trans. Christopher Carroll, Cambridge 2001.
  • James, E.,The Franks, Oxford 1988.
  • Kaiser, Reinhold, Das römische Erbe und das Merowingerreich, München 2004 (Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte 26).
  • Keely, A., "Arians and Jews in the "Histories" of Gregory of Tours", Journal of Medieval History, Vol. XXIII/2 (1997), pp. 103-115.
  • Loseby, S.T., "Marseille and the Pirenne thesis, I: Gregory of Tours, the Merovingian kings and 'un grand port'" in The Sixth Century. Production, Distribution and Demand, edited by Richard Hodges and William Bowden, pp. 203–229, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden 1998.
  • Loseby, S.T., "Gregory's cities: urban functions in sixth-century Gaul", in Franks and Alamanni in the Merovingian period: an Ethnographic Perspective, edited by Ian N. Wood, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, Woodbridge 1998, pp. 239–270.
  • McSheffrey, Shannon, The History of the Franks, Harmondsworth 1974.
  • Mitchell. Kathleen; Wood. Ian (eds.), The World of Gregory of Tours, Leiden 2002.
  • Moorhead, John, "Gregory of Tours on the Arian kingdoms", Studi medievali, Anno XXXVI, Fasc. 2 (1995), pp. 903-915.
  • Murray, A.C. (ed.), A Companion to Gregory of Tours, Leiden 2016.
  • Nie, Giselle de, Views from a Many-Windowed Tower: Studies of Imagination in the Works of Gregory of Tours, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1987.
  • Pfister, Christian (1911). "Gregory, St, of Tours" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). pp. 564–565.
  • Serra, Antonio, "L'ingenium artis di Gregorio di Tours. Preliminari d'indagine", Invigilata Lucernis 32 (2010), pp. 157–175.
  • Van Dam, Raymond, Saints and their miracles in late antique Gaul, Princeton 1993.
  • Vieillard-Troiekouroff, May, Les monuments religieux de la Gaule d'après les oeuvres de Grégoire de Tours, Paris: H. Champion, 1976
  • Vogüé, Adalbert de, "Grégoire le Grand, lecteur de Grégoire de Tours?", Analecta Bollandiana, Vol. XCIV, Issue 3-4 (1976), pp. 225-233.
  • Wagner, Norbert, "Geirom studdo (Vsp. 21,4) und Gregor von Tours", Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur, 114. Bd., H. 2 (2nd Quarter, 1985), pp. 89-91.
  • Wood, Ian N., Gregory of Tours, Bangor (GB) 1994.
  • Wood, Ian N., The Merovingian kingdoms 450-751, London 1994.
  • Wood, Ian N. "The secret histories of Gregory of Tours", Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, LXXII/2 (Année 1993), pp. 253-270.

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