By E. T Dailey
Gregory of excursions was hoping to encourage the believers in sixth-century Gaul with examples of righteous and depraved deeds and their outcomes. Critiquing his personal society, Gregory contrasted vengeful queens, rebellious nuns, and conniving witches with pious widows, humble abbesses, and tearful saints. through interpreting his thematic therapy of subject matters together with widowhood, marriage, sanctity, authority, and political enterprise, Queens, Consorts, Concubines reassesses the cloth formed by means of such issues, together with e.g. Gregory’s debts of Brunhild, Fredegund, Radegund, and different very important elite girls, Merovingian political rules (marital alliances, ecclesiastical intrigue, even assassinations), and probably unrelated issues equivalent to Hermenegild’s uprising and the occupation of Empress Sophia. the outcome: a brand new interpretation of an immense witness to the variations of overdue Antiquity.
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