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Autor: Maike Priesterjahn

Back to the Roots: The Rediscovery of Gregory of Tours in French Historiography*

Today Gregory of Tours (538-594) is considered the father of Frankish history.[1] It is not, however, his style and language that have won him this distinction, but rather the fact that his Historiarum libri decem is the first and indeed...