Gregorius Turonensis: Historian and Political Commentator

I should tell you how things went with the government of Boris, son of John while all these other things were happening, though it is in truth a sorry tale. Having, as they said, and kept saying at every conceivable opportunity, ‘got the Rebellion done’ Boris’ band of rascals and ne’er-do-wells proceeded to try to…

As I have told you at prolix length, for my talent is meagre, and with many a groan and tear of compunction, the Faction of the Right Bastards had taken control of the Palace of the Queen of the Angles, Saxons, Britons, Picts and Scots, under the leadership of Boris son of John. Their battle…

Alas, I have long been unable to find the time to write my History, prevented as I have been from putting quill to velum by the diabolical intervention of a wicked crowd of fools and heretics directed by a Pict, and their attempt to oust me from my see. Fortunately, as in 580, I was…

The end of times is daily announced, dearly beloved, in so many ways. There are signs and wonders from around the orb of the world, which I have told you about in my own writings, and the devil’s snares entrap more and more, week in and week out. Did not the blessed Cassian devote a…

While all these things were happening and the plague continued to afflict the world, ordinary folk continued to try to conduct themselves in a becoming fashion. Even among these commoners, however, just as among the mighty of the world the temptations of the Devil were everywhere to be seen. Did not the Holy Caesarius, bishop…

Among the North Aremoricans it is a wise law that every four years the people must choose the dux of the Republic. They may select the reigning dux but only for a single additional period of four years. Then they must choose someone else. The first period of Donald’s rule as dux was coming to…

Now I must return to the sequence of my narrative. As I told you in an earlier chapter at the time that it was founded, the republic of the North Aremoricans, which is called the United States of Aremorica, contained many slaves who had, I am sorry to say, been stolen from the land of…

In my Histories I should reject the lure of airy rhetoric and resume the simple speech of the ordinary citizen. And so it is time, once again, for our regular round-up of the portents that have been seen around the orb of the world and which surely announce the end of days. Many of these…

As the heavens turn around the earth, so the time came once more when the summons went out to all the clergy of the known world to attend the International Merovingian Council (of Bishops). I have told you about this great council earlier in my narrative, for Agiulf and I had journeyed abroad to attend…

Yet, no man can follow where others do not lead. Dominicus of Comminges wished to travel to the northern part of the kingdom of the Angles and Saxons for it was the birthday of the father of his wife. This man was renowned for having even stranger views than his son-in-law. He claimed that the…