Companion to Gregory of Tours

Alexander Callander Murray, Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto, received his Ph. D. in 1976 from Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies. He has written on kinship, Beowulf, the institutions of Merovingian Gaul, ‘ethnogenesis’, and Gregory of Tours.

• List of FiguresList of MapsList of GenealogiesAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionPart I. Gregory and His Circle1. Martin Heinzelmann, Gregory of Tours: The Elements of a Biography2. Michael Roberts, Venantius Fortunatus and Gregory of Tours: Patronage and PoetryPart II. Composing the Works3. Alexander Callander Murray, The Composition of the Histories of Gregory of Tours and its Bearing on the Political Narrative4. Richard Shaw, Chronology, Composition, and Authorial Conception in Gregory of Tours’ Miracula5. Pascale Bourgain, Gregory of Tours’ Works: Manuscripts, Language, and StylePart III. Institutional and Material Setting6. Alexander Callander Murray, The Merovingian State and Administration in the Times of Gregory of Tours7. Yitzhak Hen, The Gallic Church in the Sixth Century8. Patrick Périn, Landscape and Material Culture of Gaul in the Times of Gregory of ToursPart IV. Religious and Literary Perspectives9. Martin Heinzelmann, The Works of Gregory of Tours and Patristic Tradition10. Joachin Pizarro, Narrative and the Literary Imagination in Gregory of Tours’ Works11. John Kitchen, Gregory of Tours, Hagiography, and the Cult of the Saints in the Sixth CenturyPart V. Gregory and the Political World of the Sixth Century12. Stefan Esders, Gallic Politics in the Sixth Century13. Simon Loseby, Gregory of Tours, Italy, and the Eastern Empire14. Roger Collins, Gregory of Tours and SpainPart VI. Post Mortem15. Helmut Reimtiz, The Early Medieval Editions of Gregory of Tours’ Histories16. John J. Contreni, Gregory of Tours’ Works From the High Middle Ages to the Early Modern PeriodMapsGenealogiesBibliography