A Companion to Gregory the Great

The handbook offers an assessment of Gregory's activities and achievements as bishop of Rome (590-604), and considers his legacy of literary works, and their reception from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation.

About the author

Dr Bronwen Neil holds the Burke Senior Lectureship in Ecclesiastical Latin at Australian Catholic University, and is Assistant Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies. She has published widely on Maximus the Confessor, Pope Martin I, Anastasius Bibliothecarius and Pope Leo I.

Matthew Dal Santo took his PhD at the University of Cambridge. From 2007 to 2011, he was a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of History. He is the author of Debating the Saints' Cult in the Age of Gregory the Great (Oxford, 2012).

Product details

• Assisted by: Matthew J Dal Santo (Editor), Matthew J. Dal Santo (Editor), Bronwen Neil (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2013
• EAN: 9789004257757
• ISBN: 978-90-04-25775-7
• No. of pages: 454
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 244 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 830 g
• Series: Brill's Companions to the Chri
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies