The Chronology of the Gregorian Mission to England: Bede's Narrative and Gregory's Correspondence
1963; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 14; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0022046900064356
ISSN1469-7637
Autores Tópico(s)Byzantine Studies and History
ResumoProfessor Margaret Deanesly and Père Grosjean have devoted some discussion to Dom Suso Brechter's study of the sources for the English mission of Gregory the Great. The debate which it has since provoked has centred almost exclusively on the question of the authenticity of the Responsa attributed to Gregory the Great in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People [ H.E. ], i, 27. Mr. J. M. Wallace-Hadrill has rightly insisted that ‘Dom Brechter's book discusses much more than the Gregorian Responsa ’. It is my purpose in this paper to consider some of Dom Brechter's arguments concerning the course and the chronology of the English mission, and his attack on the accuracy of Bede's account and on his honesty.
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