Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Chilperic, King of the Franks: Gregory of Tours' mysterious but oddly contemporary characterization

Gregory says (Thorpe translation) that the king "hated the poor and all they stood for."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wait, what?

Liutgard said...

The first Objectivist!

Historian on the Edge said...

What *do* the poor stand for, exactly...?

Curt Emanuel said...

Gregory and Chilperic - one of my personal favorites!

EDIT: BTW, my word verification was "deitypil." Based on my most recent post, do you think this is some sort of message?