{"id":815,"date":"2020-04-17T21:12:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/?p=815"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:52:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T11:52:29","slug":"an-introduction-to-the-histories-of-gregory-of-tours-by-hope-williard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/videos\/an-introduction-to-the-histories-of-gregory-of-tours-by-hope-williard\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to the Histories of Gregory of Tours, by Hope Williard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"An Introduction to the Histories of Gregory of Tours\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i4RDnw3G1TI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staff.lincoln.ac.uk\/d7541802-319f-4d4a-b263-6d8fd78305ab\">Dr. Hope Williard, University of Lincoln<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Open Source Link<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sourcebooks.fordham.edu\/basis\/gregory-hist.asp\">Gregory of Tours (539-594): History of the Franks: Books I-X<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>What to Gregory&#8217;s own statements about his writing tell us about his choices as a writer?<\/li><li>Why does Gregory tell us the things that he does?<\/li><li>What characterises Gregory&#8217;s portraits of Merovingian queens?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Readings and Resources: Freely Available Online<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Gregory of Tours, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sourcebooks.fordham.edu\/basis\/gregory-hist.asp\">History of the Frank<\/a>s<\/em>, trans. Ernest Brehaut (New York: Columbia University Press, 1916). <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Ian N. Wood, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.persee.fr\/doc\/rbph_0035-0818_1993_num_71_2_3879\">The Secret Histories of Gregory of Tours<\/a>\u2019, <em>Revue belge de Philologie et d&#8217;Histoire<\/em> 71:2 (1993), pp. 253-270<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Readings (available to purchase as e-books or online via library subscriptions)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Gregory of Tours, <em>The History of the Franks, <\/em>trans. Lewis Thorpe (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Erin T. Dailey, <em>Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and the Women of the Merovingian Elite <\/em>(Leiden: Brill, 2015).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Guy Halsall, \u2018The Preface to Book V of Gregory of Tours\u2019 Histories: Its Form, Contents, and Significance\u2019 <em>The English Historical Review <\/em>122:496 (2007), pp. 297-317.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Alexander C. Murray, <em>Gregory of Tours: The Merovingians <\/em>(Peterborough: University of Toronto Press, 2006).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Alexander C. Murray, ed., <em>A Companion to Gregory of Tours <\/em>(Boston: Brill, 2016).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Ian Wood and Kathleen Mitchell, eds, <em>The World of Gregory of Tours <\/em>(Boston: Brill, 2002).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To Cite this Page<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Williard, Hope. \u201cAn Introduction to the <em>Histories <\/em>of Gregory of Tours,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Middle Ages for Educators<\/em>, April 17, 2020. Accessed[date]. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/?p=815\">http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/videos\/an-introduction-to-the-histories-of-gregory-of-tours,-by-hope-williard\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Hope Williard, University of Lincoln Open Source Link Gregory of Tours (539-594): History of the Franks: Books I-X Discussion Questions What to Gregory&#8217;s own statements about his writing tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[46,49,99,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}