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What criticisms do you suppose a non-believer might have made of the Christian religion, and how it spread, as described by Gregory of Tours?

2007-03-14 07:31:45 · 6 answers · asked by Pots 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Are you asking someone to help write a history paper for class?
Just seems to be an odd question to me.

2007-03-14 07:35:48 · answer #1 · answered by Still Learning 4 · 0 1

Anne Frank's diary describes how a young girl copes with a stressful situation of being a Jewish person in occupied Holland. She is aware of the war but the book centers on her feelings and the relationship between her and the others in the attic. She died in a camp shortly before the end of the war in a camp but the book ends when she is found by the Germans. The conditions of the camps were mostly unknown until their liberation.

2016-03-28 23:02:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Gregory of Tours was biased. One must decide when reading the Historia Francorum whether this is a royal history, and whether Gregory was writing to please his patrons. It is likely that one royal Frankish house is more generously treated than others. He was also a Catholic bishop, and his writing reveals views typical of someone in his position.

His views on perceived dangers of Arianism (still strong among the Visigoths) led him to preface the Historia with a detailed expression of his orthodoxy on the nature of Christ. His scorn of pagans and Jews should be seen in the context of the time. Gregory's education was limited: the narrowly Christian one available, ignoring the liberal arts and the pagan classics. Though he had read Virgil, he cautions us that "We ought not to relate their lying fables, lest we fall under sentence of eternal death." However, we must keep in mind that he seems to have thoroughly studied the lengthy and complex Vulgate Bible, religious works and a number of historical treatises, which he quotes from quite frequently, particularly in the earlier books of the Historia Francorum. The main impression that historians once retained from the Historia focussed on the violent anecdotes that Gregory relates. Until recently, historians have tended to conclude that Merovingian Gaul was a chaotic, brutal mess. Recent scholarship has refuted that view. Through more careful readings, scholars have concluded that Gregory's underlying purpose was to highlight the vanity of secular life and contrast it with the miracles of the Saints. Though Gregory conveys political and other messages through the Historia, and these are studied very closely, historians generally agree that this contrast is the central and ever-present narrative device.

2007-03-14 07:44:58 · answer #3 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0 0

Are you speaking of the Period of the Referendum, when Marshall Luger nailed his wife's nasty emails to the church door?

It was a scandal, to be sure. What is your question?

2007-03-14 07:37:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Well for one it was a tool used by the bloody franks to justify murdering entire communities and pillaging villages.

2007-03-14 07:36:11 · answer #5 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 1 1

Here you go. Happy to be of assistance..
:)

http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/HotDog/HDIndex.htm

2007-03-14 07:48:52 · answer #6 · answered by viragotriker 3 · 0 0

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