TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martyn,John R.C.
TI  - From Queens to Slaves: Pope Gregory's Special Concern for Women
SN  - 9781443834346 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BX1076 .M375 2011 
U1  - 270.2082 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Pub.
KW  - Gregory
KW  - Women in the Catholic Church
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Popes
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Church / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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