Death and afterlife in the pages of Gregory of Tours : religion and society in late antique Gaul /

Gregory of Tours was a bishop of late antiquity who was famously devoted to promoting the efficacy of saintly powers. In his writings, both historical and hagiographical, Gregory depicted the saints and reprobates of his age. This book analyses Gregory's writings about death and the afterlife,...

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Tác giả chính: Jones, Allen E., 1963- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press [2020]
Loạt:Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv15d803k
Mục lục:
  • Peering into the invisible world
  • Maturing spiritually in a perilous world
  • Pastoring from the pulpit and the page
  • Discerning the denizens of Heaven and Hell
  • Fathoming the fates of the Merovingians.