Adversus paganos : disaster, dragons, and episcopal authority in Gregory of Tours

It is commonly assumed that, in the early Middle Ages, those phenomena which modern readers might recognize as “natural disasters” were instead interpreted as divine punishments resulting from human sin. The appropriate response to such phenomena thus involved individual and collective penance. This...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patterson, David J.
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44913