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