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Nouvelle acquisition : Hagiography, historiography, and identity in sixth-century Gaul

ROTMAN Tamar
Hagiography, historiography, and identity in sixth-century Gaul : rethinking Gregory of Tours
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University press, 2022, 195 p.
Collection Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages ; 11
ISBN 978-94-6372-773-0
HMA 511

Résumé éditeur :

Gregory of Tours, the sixth-century Merovingian bishop, composed extensive historiographical and hagiographical corpora during the twenty years of his episcopacy in Tours. These works serve as important sources for the cultural, social, political and religious history of Merovingian Gaul. This book focuses on Gregory’s hagiographical collections, especially the Glory of the Martyrs, Glory of the Confessors, and Life of the Fathers, which contain accounts of saints and their miracles from across the Mediterranean world. It analyses these accounts from literary and historical perspectives, examining them through the lens of relations between the Merovingians and their Mediterranean counterparts, and contextualizing them within the identity crisis that followed the disintegration of the Roman world. This approach leads to groundbreaking conclusions about Gregory’s hagiographies, which this study argues were designed as an “ecclesiastical history” (of the Merovingian Church) that enabled him to craft a specific Gallo-Christian identity for his audience.
 

OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Corinne HÉLIN (16 novembre 2022). Nouvelle acquisition : Hagiography, historiography, and identity in sixth-century Gaul. IRHiS-Bibliothèque. Consulté le 23 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/lyf0


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