Article ID: CBB001200588

Tenebrae Refulgeant: Celestial Signa in Gregory of Tours (2012)

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Halfond, Gregory (Author)


The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe
Volume: 15
Pages: approx. 7,400 words
Publication date: 2012
Language: English


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Accessed at www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/issues/15/halfond.php.

Celestial portents appear frequently in the Historiae of Bishop Gregory of Tours (ca. 539--94). Gregory carefully distinguished between the interpretation of celestial signs and horoscopic astrology by describing signs as natural, albeit miraculous, elements of God's Creation.

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Description On the distinction that Gregory made between the interpretation of celestial signs and horoscopic astrology.


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