This worked for the nobility and the Church leaders because education is power, and therefore, the masses had to rely on their leaders. The nobility and the Church Leaders were the only ones who were educated at all and they were sent away for their education leaving the masses uneducated. The majority of the people did not know how to read or write. attacked by heretics, was defended by Catholics while the Christian faith was in general devoutly cherished, among some it was growing cold (Tours) There is an emphasis on the heathen, or uneducated people of the day. there were many deeds being done both good and evil: the heathen were raging fiercely kings were growing more cruel the church. They have been replaced by some good, but mostly evil works of mankind. The Preface starts out with the admission that intellectual lives are very few and far between. Hearing continually these complaints and others like them I to commemorate the past. He has a sarcastic tone and even admits that he is not writing because he wants to but because he has to. He starts out by lamenting the people of his time and telling the reader up front that it will not be a book of cute stories and or one that leaves him/her longing for the days that are being recorded. Most writers want to grab the reader’s attention with the first sentence or at least the first paragraph, but Tours does so in a different way. In the Preface of Book I, Tour paints a bleak yet interesting picture. The Franks were the ruling group of France at the time, and it is through History of the Franks that the world gets a glimpse into the way the culture lived.
There were varying tribes that were vying for dominance in the western and the northern regions.
Europe was not the continent that it is today. It is the most precise history that is available today about a time when Europe and the rest of the world were in constant turmoil. Gregory of Tours wrote the History of the Franks late in the 6th century.
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