Gregory of Tours’s accounts of ghosts and miracles

Record summary

Gregory of Tours’s Ten Books of Histories includes reports of visions, revenants, miraculous healings, saintly interventions, and unusual events within a Christian account of Merovingian Gaul. These passages are valuable because they preserve named places, clerics, rulers, and narrative contexts while revealing how a sixth-century bishop classified extraordinary experience. The work is a historical and hagiographic text, not a modern case report. Its stories are mediated by theology, literary convention, manuscript transmission, and Gregory’s authorial purposes, so factual event reconstruction remains uncertain.