Venantius Fortunatus and Gallic Christianity : Theology in the Writings of an Italian Émigré in Merovingian Gaul (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages)

Usually known as a bon vivant poet or naïve biographer of saints, Venantius Fortunatus, the sixth-century poet and émigré from Italy to Merovingian Gaul, emerges this book as a vigorous and mature preacher of Christian theology.