Gregory The Great and His World

Markus, R. A. 1924-2010

Gregory The Great and His World R. A. Markus - U.S.A Cambridge University Press 1997 - 241tr. Hardcover 23 cm

Markus seeks to understand Gregory as a cultivated late Roman aristocrat converted to the ascetic ideal, caught in the tension between attraction to the monastic vocation and his episcopal ministry, at a time of catastrophic change in the Roman world...

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Church history -- Primitive and early church
Christianity and culture -- History -- Early church, ca 30-600

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