# History of the Franks

Author: Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint, 538-594; Brehaut, Ernest, 1873-1953 [Translator]

Genre: Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74955

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=History+of+the+Franks+Gregory&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The _History of the Franks_ by Gregory, bishop of Tours, is an historical record of great importance. The events which it relates are details of the perishing of the Roman Empire and the beginning of a great modern state and for these events it is often the sole authority. However although Gregory was relating history mainly contemporaneous or recent, we must allow largely for error and prejudice in his statements of fact. It is rather as an unconscious revelation that the work is of especial value. The language and style, the intellectual attitude with which it was conceived and written, and the vivid and realistic picture, unintentionally given, of a primitive society, all combine to ma...

## Chapters

- [Book X 225](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-franks-74955/chapters/1/index.md)
- [d. 584](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-franks-74955/chapters/3/index.md)
- [d. 511](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/history-of-the-franks-74955/chapters/2/index.md)