Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Maps
- 1 Introduction: a contemplative in a troubled world
- 2 Integritas animi: ministry in the Church
- 3 Sapienter indoctus: scriptural understanding
- 4 Appropinquante mundi termino: the world in its old age
- 5 The Christian community and its neighbours
- 6 Christiana respublica: within the confines of the Empire
- 7 Terra mea: Italy between two worlds
- 8 Argus luminosissimus: the pope as landlord
- 9 Scissum corpus: the schism of the Three Chapters
- 10 Ravenna and Rome: and beyond
- 11 In cunctis mundipartibus: the far West
- 12 Inconcussam servare provinciam: dissent in Africa
- Epilogue
- Appendix On the distribution of Gregory's correspondence
- Glossary of terms for offices
- Sources
- Secondary works referred to
- Index of Gregorian texts
- General index
Secondary works referred to
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Maps
- 1 Introduction: a contemplative in a troubled world
- 2 Integritas animi: ministry in the Church
- 3 Sapienter indoctus: scriptural understanding
- 4 Appropinquante mundi termino: the world in its old age
- 5 The Christian community and its neighbours
- 6 Christiana respublica: within the confines of the Empire
- 7 Terra mea: Italy between two worlds
- 8 Argus luminosissimus: the pope as landlord
- 9 Scissum corpus: the schism of the Three Chapters
- 10 Ravenna and Rome: and beyond
- 11 In cunctis mundipartibus: the far West
- 12 Inconcussam servare provinciam: dissent in Africa
- Epilogue
- Appendix On the distribution of Gregory's correspondence
- Glossary of terms for offices
- Sources
- Secondary works referred to
- Index of Gregorian texts
- General index
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- Gregory the Great and his World , pp. 214 - 224Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997