Death and Afterlife in the Pages of Gregory of Tours

Allen Jones is Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Philosophy at Troy University.

Introduction

Part I Death

Chapter One Peering into the Invisible World
Death and the Little Boy
Becoming Gregory I
Conclusion

Chapter Two Maturing Spiritually in a Perilous World
Death and the Aspiring Cleric
Becoming Gregory II
Studium ad ecclesiasticae scriptae
Conclusion

Chapter Three Pastoring from the Pulpit and the Page
Death and the Bishop
Death and the Historian?
Bishop, Author, Pastor
-Writings and Sermons
-Sin, Penance, Grace
-Living Holy People
-Sinners
Conclusion

Part II Afterlife

Chapter Four Discerning the Denizens of Heaven and Hell
The Saved
Visionaries and Heaven
Communicating Salvation: Migrare and Transire
Hellmates
Signs of Condemnation
Communicating Damnation: Interire, Iudicium Dei, Ultio Divina
Lessons and Warnings for Contemporaries
Conclusion

Chapter Five Fathoming the Fates of the Merovingians
Merovingians in Heaven
-King Clovis and Queen Clotild
-King Theudebert
Merovingians in Hell
-King Chlodomer et al.
-A Mixed Bag: Kings Theuderic, Theudebald, Childebert I, Chlothar I and Prince Chramn
Kings Charibert and Sigibert
Kings Chilperic and Guntram
Conclusion

Conclusion
Killer Queen(s)
King Guntram and Gregory's Unfinished Project
Afterword

Bibliography

Index