Historian on the Edge

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Showing posts with label Gregory of Tours. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gregory of Tours. Show all posts
Tuesday, 10 December 2013

'Good' King Guntramn's 'Miracle'

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One of the more bizarre stories in Gregory of Tours' Histories concerns King Guntramn of Burgundy who, says Gregory ( Hist. 9.21 ) onc...
Thursday, 7 February 2013

Classical Gender in Deconstruction

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[ Next week I am off to Padova to the VI Congresso della Società Italiana delle Storiche , where I've been asked to speak about a n epis...
Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Officers or Gentlemen? The Frankish Aristocracy in the Sixth Century: Part 3

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[ The third installment of this draft article on the sixth-century aristocracy (which begins here ) looks at the significance for the deba...
Wednesday, 22 February 2012

Changing Minds around 600

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[ I was very kindly invited to give one of the once-a-term York Medieval Lectures yesterday (in-house speakers are not often invited), which...
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