Entre santos e reis: as hagiografias de São Nicécio de Tréveris e São Germano de Paris como instrumento legitimidador do poder bispal na Gália do Século VI

Abstract

This study sought to investigate how they configured the relationship between the Gallo- Roman bishops and frank royalty within the hagiographic texts Life of St. Nitetius of Trier and Life of St. Germanus of Paris, written respectively by Bishop Gregory of Tours and poet Venancio Fortunato during the sixth century in the Merovingian region of Gaul. Such na analysis is relevant, since the dispute between these entities by the domain of political Power in this period is clear. As a way of increasing their fame, the Gallo-Roman episcopate was committed to legitimizing their authority through the lives of the saint, using the memory of the bishops who were before them, the present occupants of the sees fostered the propagation of the saint-bishop, which is characterized as a political-religious figure in opposition to the opposing forces of the Church and the episcopate which are manifested mainly in the form of Merovingian kings.