The Pseudo-Gregorian Dialogues : : Volume 1.
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Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2022. ©1987. |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (422 pages) |
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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.