Your Daily Penguin: Gregory of Tours!

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[@giovannibraggs9223]

Currently reading the History of the Franks. Love your rendition of that passage. 😂 I've watched this video so many times 😅

[@robertdavis1783]

That paragraph was a proper riot. I can't imagine that Gregory didn't know full well what he was doing, and I am even more likely to add him to my list for it.

[@anselman3156]

Just checked Amazon-Lewis Thorpe translation still available. Now on my wish list. Dying while emptying bowels, wasn't that what happened to Arius? What a way to go!

[@pennygraham3767]

Oh, my old friend, Gregory of Tours. Many years ago I had two units left to fulfil my degree requirements. I chose the Origins of England, Ireland and France ( of course Bede was there and thank you for yesterday’s Penguin) and the Viking age. I think I enjoyed those two units more than I had any of the other subjects I had done up until that time. Sadly I cannot find my copy of G of T. Hope I can replace it. Thanks Steve!

[@pag9128]

Glad to see Saint Gregory here such a good read.

[@Tolstoy111]

I would date the Dark Ages as starting with the Islamic conquests in the 7th century. Before that the Mediterranean world functioned pretty much as it had before AD 476

[@ramblingraconteur1616]

The Dark Ages and Renaissance are my own blind spot in comparison with the Classics, so this is great. I never knew how fun Gregory could be, especially with how things ended for the Merovingians.

[@pag9128]

My copy is from furst rate publishers translated by Ernest Brehaut.

[@wokeeye6441]

He wrote in such incorrect Latin that scholars now believe that he was writing in the common language of the Romans back then. I am reading sporadically from 6th century authors: Cassiodorus, Boethius and Eugippius, yet I prefer to listen to Gregory in an English translation on Librivox here on KZbin

[@BookishTexan]

That Marxist propaganda at the beginning of this video no doubt set David Murphy's Libertarian Spidey Senses tingling. Enjoyed this. I mean who hasn't occasionally feared death in the toilet.

[@saintdonoghue]

I have that fear every single day at around 3 pm!