The historical account of the Franks written by Saint Gregory of Tours is one of the best historical accounts written in the middle ages particularly in the early middle ages shortly after the miserable demise of the western roman empire after 478 A.D. The brutal honesty of Gregory of Tours in reporting the hideous and sometimes horrible actions committed by the merovingian kings and queens in order to gain power or to maintain it in sharp contrast with the great deeds performed by great Saints and prelates and how God was glorified with them by great miracles that helped greatly in civilizing the country and the complete Christianization of this country that came to be known as France. In other word, Gregory gave us a history of France before France itself existed on the map. Moreover, as an honest historian Gregory wasn't shy in expressing God's miracles and actions that many of the so-called historians are afraid to report. His sharp erudition and comprehensive knowledge of the confines of the Merovingian kingdom that included what is now Belgium as well as france, and the western part of what is now Helvetia or Switzerland and his firm grasp of the Frankish tribes, their origins, their movements and the expansion of their kingdom after the great victory of Clovis I in the battle of Tolbiac and his baptism in the Orthodox Faith in 496 A.D. and the great role that the Franks played in defeating arianism not just militarily but also doctrinally is amazing. The great doctrinal debates reported by Gregory that involved either himself, the merovingian and the frankish rulers or any one of the prelates on one side and the arians particularly the Goths who used to rule Spain are simply amazing and debunks the foolishness about the so-called dark ages when the majority of the so-called Christian theologians now cannot debate or even grasp the doctrines in the way that Gregory and the prelates in his age could. It was a time when there were many schools being built associated with benedictine monastic settlements and the great civilization of the barbaric tribes of the franks that started feverishly at that time. Anyone who claims that this was the dark ages is deluded, it is our age that is dark, when it was in the modern times that we started to have world wars engulfing almost all the countries of the world resultung in the death of millions of people and the appearance of oppressive political systems that mass murdered millions of people. As the account given by Saint Gregory of Tours, it is indeed a historical masterpiece in honesty, erudition, doctrinal orthodoxy and historical veracity. Saint Gregory of Tours puts all the modern so-called revisionist marxist historians to shame, and actually lay the historical reality so clearly making it impossible for the lying modern historians to change or revise history according to their bias and prejudice. It is one of the greatest oracles of history ever to have been penned down by any historian.
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A rather ugly print on demand edition
The translation is fine, but this edition is very hard to read. First, text runs far into the gutters, so you're always reading around the corner. Second, they use a very novel footnote format where each note appears right after the pp it is cited from. This is a good idea, actually, but the implementation is terrible, because they don't use superscripts or small fonts for the notes or anything - instead, notes are set off with extra white space above and below [yes! in a book with no margins!] and numbered[56] like thiswhich is very ugly and bulky.
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