Gregory of Tours
Bishop of Tours in Gaul and the chief historian of the early Franks; his History of the Franks, in ten books, runs from Adam to his own day and is full of the lives of saints and bishops.
Writings
English translations (older public-domain ones, and a few modern ones shared under open licences), divided into chapters and short sections, with a download for each. A modern English version and the original-language text are planned for the works that matter most.
- History of the Franks (Brehaut translation) Older English 7.5 h read
Most translations are the older ones in the public domain (mostly the nineteenth-century Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers); a few are modern translations shared under an open licence, with the translators credited on the work’s page. Square brackets and any Greek or Latin words are as the source prints them.