The Shadow of a Doubt?A Note on the Dialogues and Registrum Epistolarum of Pope Gregory the Great (590–604)

• Autores: Matthew Dal Santo
• Localización: Journal of ecclesiastical history, ISSN 0022-0469, Vol. 61, Nº 1, 2010, págs. 3-17
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Since the 1980s the British scholar Francis Clark has challenged the traditional attribution of the Dialogues on the miracles of the Italian Fathers to Pope Gregory the Great (590–604). While Clark's thesis has generally been rejected by experts, it retains considerable persuasive force for those new to the field. This paper focuses on the misplaced intuitive foundation of Clark's thesis and points to the enthusiasm exhibited by Gregory the Great for the miracles of the saints in several understudied letters from his Registrum epistolarum. It particularly highlights Gregory's discussion of four miracles performed by St Andrew the Apostle at Rome in ep. 11.xxvi written to the patrician Rusticiana at Constantinople in 601. It concludes that there is no discrepancy in mentalité between Gregory as author of the Dialogues and his other recognised works.