Gregory of Tours - Lower Mid-Atlantic

Question

According to this historian, alcohol consumption was only virtuous when done to honor God rather than for personal pleasure. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this historian whose Life of the Fathers consists of 20 hagiographies. This bishop’s Historia Francorum provides much of our knowledge on Early Frankish and Merovingian History.

ANSWER: Gregory of Tours [prompt on Gregory]

[10e] Gregory of Tours, in his Historia Francorum, wrote of how this person’s army “by the use of magic arts caused various false appearances to arise before their enemies.” He also wrote how Theodoric was killed in battle by this king of the Huns.

ANSWER: Attila [or Attila the Hun]

[10m] Much of Book IV is dedicated to how Clothar I crushed a rebellion of these people. Charlemagne torched their sacred tree, Irminsul, during an invasion when they were led by their king Widukind.

ANSWER: Saxons [accept Old Saxons or Continental Saxons]

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