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Sis Quoque Catholicis Religionis Apex: The Ecclesiastical Patronage of Chilperic I and Fredegund
Church History, 2012 The libelous depiction of King Chilperic I (561–584) and his wife Fredegund in Gregory of Tours'Decem Libri Historiarumhas encouraged the false impression of these Merovingian monarchs as scourges of the Gallo-Frankish Church and its bishops. If fact, evidence from Gregory's own writings, as well as from other contemporary sources, reveals that ...
Gregory I. Halfond
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Legends of Chilperic in Anglo-Saxon England
ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 2018 Leonard Neidorf
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Poet as politician: Venantius Fortunatus' panegyric to King Chilperic
Journal of Medieval History, 1989In August 580 the Italian poet, Venantius Fortunatus, delivered a panegyric before King Chilperic and a synod of bishops assembled at Berny-Riviere to hear the poet's friend and patron, Bishop Gregory of Tours, arraigned on a charge of treason. The poem has long and widely been interpreted as a dishonourable and opportunistic betrayal of the bishop, as
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Nero and Herod? The Death of Chilperic and Gregory’s Writing of History
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