Discourse ‘Sermons’ in the Libri historiarum decem of Gregory of Tours
Alberto Ferreiro
Gregory of Tours (538-594 AD) achieved notoriety mainly for his massive Libri historiarum decem that he intended wide dissemination and to be used compose sermons by the bishops other clergy beyond death. The topic preaching has been studied some modern scholars, but in limited fashion. Moreover, even though did not explicitly talk much about LH entirely overlook topic. This study proposes there are embedded LH, which I call ‘discourse sermons.’ By this, mean placed context historical narrative achieve principal goal, defend Catholic-Orthodoxy promote Christian values. essay identifies these sermons’ ascertains their catechetical purpose LH.
Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique