When trying to make a sense of the sometimes confusing situation that is Gaul and the northern German area it help to have these two books by your side. The Gallic War By Caesar And The History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours are two amazing books that really allow you to make sense of the history of the area. The great thing about theses to books is that they both go about explaining the situation in a completely different way and writing style, whilst still allowing the reader to come to the same conclusion. That conclusion being that Gaul is a chaotic and ever changing place with the people to match.
The Gallic War was a book written by Julius Caesar to the roman senate explaining his conquests in Gaul. At the time in which this book takes place Caesar is a Pro-consular stationed in Gaul and in command of the Roman army there. Trying to gain fame and wealth Caesar begins a ten-year campaign to subdue the barbarians in Gaul and bring them under civilized Roman rule. This book allows us to gain an understating of the situation in Gaul before it is incorporated in to the Roman Empire. Caesar wrote is from his point of view as a military commander facing a Gallic enemy, so the book a fairly one sided only portray the “enemy” in a way that would benefit him. Due to Caesar…show more content… The book explains the history of the world all the way from its creation to 594AD. A majority of this book is spent focusing on Gaul and the Frankish people in the area. In his writing it was very apparent that Gregory was greatly influenced by religion and ties just about everything back to Christianity in some way or another. Being such a religious man Gregory tends to sympathy with people that have similar beliefs and cultural practices as him. In this book Gregory does a great job of giving valuable understanding of how religion and culture played a part during this time
