King Chilperic sent a letter addressed to the tomb of St Martin.
By studying Gregory’s narrative descriptions of letters this article seeks to shed new light on three aspects of Merovingian epistolary culture that have proved difficult to approach solely through the epistolary evidence: first, the typological variety of letters used in Merovingian Gaul, which extended far beyond the literary compositions dominating the letter collections second, the complex practices surrounding letter delivery, such as the use of messengers, oral performance and strategies of secret communication and finally, the repurposing of letters after their initial moment of delivery, which includes recirculation of old letters as sources of evidence and persuasion, but also covers the way Gregory himself came to employ letters as a narrative device. This article turns to a different source: Gregory of Tours’ Histories, the foremost work of history-writing to survive from sixth-century Gaul. An epilogue was written in 594, the year of Gregory's death.Merovingian letter-writing is traditionally studied by calling on a dozen or so high prolife letter collections.
The third part, from books 7 to 10, take the account to the year 591, and concludes with a plea for further chroniclers to preserve his work in entirety. From the fifth book on, Gregory starts the second part of the book, on his contemporary history, closing Book 6 with Chilperic I's death in 584. It is written in ten books, of which one to four recount the world's history from the Creation and move on to the Christianization of Gaul, the life and times of Saint Martin of Tours, the conversion of the Franks, the conquest of Gaul under Clovis, and the history of the Frankish kings down to the death of Sigebert I in 575. The Historia Francorum is the most important contemporary source for the Merovingian age. , listen for free online at the digital library site Selections of the History of the Franks - description and summary of the book.
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