Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite

Queens, Consorts, Concubines offers an analysis of Gregory of Tours on issues including widowhood, marriage, sanctity, and political agency, offering a reinterpretation of elite women in Gaul (e.g. Brunhild, Fredegund, Radegund), related subjects (e.g. Merovingian marital policy), and Late Antiquity generally.

About the author

E.T. Dailey, Ph.D. (University of Leeds, 2011) has published studies on the transformations of the post-Roman world in several journals including Early Medieval Europe and the Journal of Late Antiquity.

Product details

• Authors: E. T Dailey, E. T. Dailey
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2015
• EAN: 9789004290891
• ISBN: 978-90-04-29089-1
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 243 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 439 g
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories