Tours vs. Bourges: The Secular and Ecclesiastical Discourse of Inter-City Relationships in the Accounts of Gregory of Tours

Michael Burrows completed his Ph.D. in Medieval History at the University of Leeds. His doctoral thesis is an investigation of violence in the western provinces of the Roman Empire and the successor states in late antiquity. The particular focus of the thesis is on violence as an expression of power in social relationships, and what episodes of violence can reveal about life and agency among the lower classes in late antiquity/the Early Middle Ages. He has worked closely with his peers at the University of Leeds on the Networks and Neighbours project (https://networksandneighbours.org/) and with the Texts and Identities series. He has taught undergraduate modules on late ancient and medieval Europe and the Mediterranean at the University of Leeds, and has delivered papers on a range of topics, from the Roman Principate to Merovingian Gaul.