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Queens, Consorts, Concubines

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Queens, Consorts, Concubines

[book]

: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite

\ by E.T. Dailey

Leiden

: Brill

, 2015

xiv, 202 p.

Mnemosyne supplements. Late antique literature

; volume 381

The ebook format of this book is available

Bibliography

Index

Chart 1: The Merovingian Royal House I : the family of Clovis -- Chart 2: The Merovingian Royal House II : the family of Chlothar I -- Widowhood -- Holiness, femininity, and authority -- Scandal in Poitiers -- Brides and social status -- Merovingian marital practice -- Brunhild and Fredegund, I : moral opposites or kindred spirits? -- Brunhild and Fredegund, II : queens, politics, and the writing of history.

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"Gregory of Tours hoped to inspire the believers in sixth-century Gaul with examples of righteous and wicked deeds and their consequences. Critiquing his own society, Gregory contrasted vengeful queens, rebellious nuns, and conniving witches with pious widows, humble abbesses, and tearful saints. By examining his thematic treatment of topics including widowhood, marriage, sanctity, authority, and political agency, Queens, Consorts, Concubines reassesses the material shaped by such concerns, including e.g. Gregory's accounts of Brunhild, Fredegund, Radegund, and other important elite women, Merovingian political policies (marital alliances, ecclesiastical intrigue, even assassinations), and seemingly unrelated topics such as Hermenegild's rebellion and the career of Empress Sophia. The result: a new interpretation of an important witness to the transformations of Late Antiquity"--Provided by publisher.

Gregory, 538-594 -- Criticism and interpretation

Merovingians -- Historiography

Merovingians -- Politics and government -- Historiography

Women -- Gaul -- Historiography

Elite (Social sciences) -- Gaul -- Historiography

Merovingians, Biography

Women -- Gaul -- Biography

Gaul -- Historiography

France -- History, To 987 -- Historiography

نخبگان -- گل (فرانسه) -- تاریخ‌نویسی

زنان -- گل (فرانسه) -- سرگذشتنامه

گل (فرانسه) -- تاریخ‌نویسی

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