The very appellation, 'Gregory the Great', already indicates the
quite unusual prestige and authority of this early-medieval pope.
For the Germanic-speaking peoples in the North, Gregory's
prominence depended, above all else, on his seminal role in their
conversion. In 596 he sent Augustine on a mission to England, to
convert the newly-settled Anglo-Saxons to the christian faith - a
task which met with immediate success, and which has soon brought
to complete fruition. This achievement secured a place of great
respect for Gregory in England, where the first Life was written,
around 700. Gregory's written oeuvre, too, was in great demand, and
much of it was translated into Old English. Within three
generations of their conversion, the Anglo-Saxons in their turn
were sending missionaries to the Continent to preach the Gospel to
Franks, Frisians and Saxons. Missionaries such as Willibrord and
Boniface took support and inspiration from Gregory's pastoral
advice to Augustine, which had already been recorded in the
historical accounts of the Venerable Bede. The same reverence for
Gregory accompanied the Anglo-Saxon missionaries to the continent,
and later, to Scandinavia. The present volume presents a survey of
the reception of Gregory's works, as this emerges in the
international Latin culture of Europe, and in the early- and
high-medieval vernaculars of Anglo-Saxon England, South and North
Germany, the Low Countries, Frisia, and Scandinavia and Iceland.
Special attention is paid to Gregory's Moralia in Job, the Homilies
on Ezechiel and on the Gospels, the Pastoral Rule and the
Dialogues. The contributors - from the United States, Canada,
England, the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands -
are specialist scholars in the relevant fields, and their
contributions have been commisioned for this volume. These essays,
as a group, comprise an important and up-to-date survey of
Gregory's profound influence on both the literary culture of the
Germanic-speaking peoples and the pastoral practice of their
clergy. Through the many innovating approaches of the contributors,
the book offers a challenging starting point for further research.
Rome and the North is thus of interest to all students and scholars
of medieval literature, theology and history and especially to
medievalists interested in the lasting legacy bequeathed by Gregory
to the medieval Germanic-speaking world.
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