The Pseudo-Gregorian Dialogues : : Volume 1.

• Author: Clark, Francis.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©1987.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (422 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Part One: The Setting of the lnquiry -- I. lntroduction: The Riddle of the Gregorian Dialogues -- II. Outline of the Case and Stages of the Argument -- III. Earlier Dispute about the Authenticity of the Dialogues -- Part Two: The External Evidence -- IV. The eloquent silence of Gregory's own age about the existence of the Dialogues. lsidore and the Liber Pontificalis -- V. The suspect Letter to Maximian. Historical improbability of the ostensible date of the Dialogues -- VI. Paterius and Tajo do not attest the authenticity of the Dialogues: nor do the alleged testimonies of Moschus and Jonas -- VII. More evidence from Visigothic Spain. An interpolated text of Ildephonsus of Toledo -- VIII. The Lives of the Fathers of Merida and the Vita Fructuosi -- IX. The first emergence of the Dialogues into the light at the close of the seventh century: The testimonies of Aldhelm, Adamnan, Julian and Defensor -- X. The dating of the Dialogues in the light of the earliest manuscript evidence -- XI. The question of the origin of the Dialogues linked with the problematic history of early Benedictine monasticism -- A) A summary of the case -- B) The modern critical reappraisal of early Benedictine history -- C) Hallinger's confutation of traditional assumptions about the Benedictinism of the Gregorian age -- D) The paradoxical "isolation" of Dialogues 11.36 -- E) Gregory's alleged allusion to Benedict and his rule in the Commentary on 1 Kings -- F) The tardy and muted emergence of the Regula Benedicti -- G) Why was biographical knowledge and liturgical mention of St Benedict lacking for so long? -- H) Does the Fleury tradition prove that the Life of St Benedict in Book II of the Dialogues was known in the third quarter of the seventh century?.

I.) The eventual upgrowth and flowering of Benedictine monasticism in the eighth century, correlated with the rise to fame of the Dialogues -- Appendix: The Latin Text of The Dialogues of Pope Gregory concerning the Miracles of the Fathers of Italy.