Description: Gregory, bishop of Tours (573-594), wrote history, hagiography, and ecclesiastical instruction. A Companion to Gregory of Tours brings together twelve scholars who provide an expert guide to interpreting his works, his period, and his legacy in religious and historical studies.
Brief description: Alexander Callander Murray, Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto, received his Ph. D. in 1976 from Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies. He has written on kinship, Beowulf, the institutions of Merovingian Gaul, 'ethnogenesis', and Gregory of Tours.