From Queens to Slaves
Martyn, John R. C.
From Queens to Slaves Pope Gregory's Special Concern for Women. [electronic resource] : - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011. - 1 online resource (232 p.)
Table of contents; preface; historical background; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; chapter four; chapter five; chapter six; chapter seven; chapter eight; chapter nine; bibliography; index of names.
The book is based on the author's very careful study of all the women who were involved with the normally extremely busy and painfully sick Pope Gregory the Great, many of them staying with him in Rome while he sorted out their mainly legal cases, and one of them, Theoctista, the learned sister of the Emperor Maurice, receiving the longest letter that he ever wrote to any individual. The consular son of the great Boethius, Flavius, was the father of Lady Rusticiana, who received several lette ...
9781443834346 (electronic bk.) 1443834343 (electronic bk.)
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604 --Relations with women--Sources.
Women in the Catholic Church--History--To 1500.
Popes--Correspondence.
RELIGION / Christian Church / History
RELIGION / Christianity / History
Electronic books.
BX1076 .M375 2011
270.2082
From Queens to Slaves Pope Gregory's Special Concern for Women. [electronic resource] : - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011. - 1 online resource (232 p.)
Table of contents; preface; historical background; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; chapter four; chapter five; chapter six; chapter seven; chapter eight; chapter nine; bibliography; index of names.
The book is based on the author's very careful study of all the women who were involved with the normally extremely busy and painfully sick Pope Gregory the Great, many of them staying with him in Rome while he sorted out their mainly legal cases, and one of them, Theoctista, the learned sister of the Emperor Maurice, receiving the longest letter that he ever wrote to any individual. The consular son of the great Boethius, Flavius, was the father of Lady Rusticiana, who received several lette ...
9781443834346 (electronic bk.) 1443834343 (electronic bk.)
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604 --Relations with women--Sources.
Women in the Catholic Church--History--To 1500.
Popes--Correspondence.
RELIGION / Christian Church / History
RELIGION / Christianity / History
Electronic books.
BX1076 .M375 2011
270.2082
