Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian EliteQueens, Consorts, Concubines offers an analysis of Gregory of Tours on issues including widowhood, marriage, sanctity, and political agency, offering a reinterpretation of elite women in Gaul (e.g. Brunhild, Fredegund, Radegund), related subjects (e.g. Merovingian marital policy), and Late Antiquity generally. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 Widowhood | 16 |
Chapter 2 Holiness Femininity and Authority | 46 |
Chapter 3 Scandal in Poitiers | 64 |
Chapter 4 Brides and Social Status | 80 |
Queens Politics and the Writing of History | 141 |
Conclusion | 161 |
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| Title | Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite Mnemosyne, Supplements, Late Antique Literature |
| Author | E. T. Dailey |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2015 |
| ISBN | 900429466X, 9789004294660 |
| Length | 220 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism / Medieval |
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