Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 92: Gregory of Tours
About this episode
This episode discusses Gregory of Tours and his role in preserving the history of Roman Gaul during the 6th century.
Gallo-Roman aristocrat, Bishop and Saint, Gregory kept a small flame alive in what had been Roman Gaul as the darkness fell in the 6th century with the arrival of Clovis and the Merovingian dynasty that would give birth to France. If it were not for Gregory's histories, this period after the Western Empire had collapsed would be lost to time. But Gregory preserves a remarkable age for us, and paints technicolor portraits of a violent age in which threads of Rome can still be discerned in the lengthening shadows.
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- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 96 - Gregory the Great (Part 1)
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 95: Lost Roman Women with Ladies of Lore
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 93: Mauricius (Part 1 - The Rise)
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 91: Tiberius II
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 90: Belisarius, Man Behind the Myth with Dr. David Parnell
- Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 89: Procopius
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