Gregory the Great and his world
Markus, R. A.1997
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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.
Main title:
Gregory the Great and his world / R. A. Markus.
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Imprint:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Collation:
xxiii, 241p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780521586085 (pbk)
Dewey class:
270.2
Language:
English
BRN:
53304
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