Hispania Motives and their Function in the Chronicle of Gregory of Tours

The study analyses the importance of the Hispania discourse in the Ten Books of Histories (Historia Francorum) by Gregory of Tours on the “Frank state ideology”. The Frank chronicler uses the topics of the Visigoth Kingdom and the Iberian Peninsula on three interpretational levels (antique, heretic,...

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Main Author: Václav Drška
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Technology and Business, České Budějovice 2017-01-01
Series:Littera Scripta
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Online Access:http://www.littera-scripta.com/hispania-motives-and-their-function-in-the-chronicle-of-gregory-of-tours/