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  • Chapter 2 - Capud victuriarum vestrarum Chlodovechus

  • from Part I - Lions and Unicorns
  • Yaniv Fox, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
  • Book:
    The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition
    Published online:
    02 November 2023
    Print publication:
    16 November 2023, pp 84-120

  • Summary

    The second chapter will focus on the depiction of Clovis I, the first Christian king of the Franks. The inflation of the Clovis myth in the medieval chronicle tradition has been treated exhaustively, primarily in French historiography. This is why this chapter proceeds along an alternate route. Instead of interrogating the evolution of Clovis from Fredegar and the LHF to high- and late-medieval works of history, it will compare the story found in Gregory of Tours with that found in the sixteenth-century De rebus gestis Francorum [DRG] by Paolo Emilio. The reason for this choice is that, to a large degree, Emilio bypassed the intermediate sources, relying primarily on Gregory for this section of his opus. The DRG is thus only once removed from the Histories, although the differences in the two authors’ attitude toward character-building and in their stylistic approach are glaring, for reasons that will be elaborated upon in the chapter.