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Les Mérovingiens : archéologie et historiographie.
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ISBN: 2903442916 9782903442910 Year: 1989 Volume: 2 Publisher: Paris Errance


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Power and religion in Merovingian Gaul
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ISBN: 9781107064591 1107064597 9781316057018 9781107587649 9781107658424 9781316073551 1316073556 1107587646 1316083012 1316057011 1316054640 1316075923 131608065X 110765842X 1316071197 1316078299 1322177023 Year: 2014 Volume: 98 Publisher: New York

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This study is the first to attempt a thorough investigation of the activities of the Columbanian congregation, which played a significant role in the development of Western monasticism. This was a new form of rural monasticism, which suited the needs and aspirations of a Christian elite eager to express its power and prestige in religious terms. Contrary to earlier studies, which viewed Columbanus and his disciples primarily as religious innovators, this book focuses on the political, economic, and familial implications of monastic patronage and on the benefits elite patrons stood to reap. While founding families were in a privileged position to court royal favour, monastic patronage also exposed them to violent reprisals from competing factions. Columbanian monasteries were not serene havens of contemplation, but rather active foci of power and wealth, and quickly became integral elements of early medieval statecraft.


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Lives and miracles
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ISBN: 9780674088450 067408845X Year: 2015 Volume: 39 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press,

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Gregory of Tours served as bishop of Tours, then a city in the Frankish kingdom, from 563 to 594. Acclaimed by the French as “the father of our history” on account of his History of the Franks, he also wrote stories about holy men and women and about wondrous events he experienced, witnessed, or knew as miracles. In our times many people deny the existence of miracles, while others use the term so loosely that it becomes almost meaningless. Must a true miracle transcend “natural laws”? Gregory’s lively stories relate what he regarded as the visible results of holy power, direct or mediated, and its role in the lives of his contemporaries. His conversational narratives, which are largely without self-conscious stylistic effects, present unique, often moving, glimpses into his world. For Gregory, the frontiers between interior and exterior, God and matter, word or gesture and its referent, remained fluid. Lives and Miracles includes the texts of The Life of the Fathers, The Miracles of the Martyr Julian, and The Miracles of Bishop Martin.

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