Gregory the Great and His WorldMarkus's new and accessible work is the first full study of Gregory the Great since that of F. H. Dudden (1905) to deal with both Gregory's life and work as well as with his thought and spirituality. With his command of Gregory's works, Markus portrays vividly the daily problems of one of the most attractive characters of the age. Gregory's culture is described in the context of the late Roman educational background and in the context of previous patristic tradition. Markus seeks to understand Gregory as a cultivated late Roman aristocrat converted to the ascetic ideal, caught in the tension between his attraction to the monastic vocation and his episcopal ministry, at a time of catastrophic change in the Roman world. The book deals with every aspect of his pontificate: as bishop of Rome, as landlord of the Church lands, in his relations to the Empire, and to the Western Germanic kingdoms in Spain, Gaul, and, especially, his mission to the English. |
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Contents
Introduction a contemplative in a troubled world | 1 |
Integritas animi ministry in the church | 17 |
Sapienter indoctus scriptural understanding | 34 |
Approprinquante mundi termino the world in its old age | 51 |
The Christian community and its neighbours | 68 |
Christiana respublica within the confines of the Empire | 83 |
Terra mea Italy between two worlds | 97 |
Argus luminosissimus the pope as landlord | 112 |
In cunctis mundi partibus the far west | 163 |
Inconcussam servare provinciam dissent in Africa | 188 |
Epilogue | 203 |
On the distribution of Gregorys correspondence | 206 |
Glossary of terms for offices | 210 |
Sources | 211 |
Secondary works referred to | 214 |
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Scissum corpus the schism of the Three Chapters | 125 |
Ravenna and Rome and beyond | 143 |
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