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The Old English pastoral care
- Title
- The Old English pastoral care / edited and translated by R. D. Fulk.
- Author
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Fulk, R. D. (Robert Dennis)
- Description
- xiv, 585 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "The Pastoral Care is a work of moral instruction. The title Liber regulae pastoralis assigned to the Latin text from which the Old English Pastoral Care is translated, is apparently the one intended by its author, Pope Gregory I. It may be rendered Book of Pastoral Rule, in reference to the duties of a "shepherd" or bishop. The book is also sometimes called Liber pastoralis curae (Book of Pastoral Care), or some variant thereof, apparently on the basis of its opening words. The work was completed at the start of Gregory's pontificate, in 590 or 591, and it fulfilled an intention that Gregory had earlier expressed of composing for speakers of Latin a resource already available in Greek: an account of the qualities required of a bishop and of the best methods to be employed in dealing with the diverse sorts of people under a bishop's care. It may be deduced from the verse prologue to the Old English translation that Augustine of Canterbury took a copy of the work with him to England when Gregory sent him to begin the work of converting the English in 597. The letter to Wærferth, composed sometime between 890 and 896, has attracted more scholarly comment than any other portion of the work. It is equally enlightening in its straightforward explanation that the translation is one of a projected series intended to be the cornerstone of an effort instigated by Alfred and his ecclesiastical advisers to restore to vitality the learning in which England had once flourished and which was now hampered by general illiteracy in Latin among the clergy, and even among bishops"--
- Series Statement
- Dumbarton Oaks medieval library; DOML 72
- Uniform Title
- Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 72.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Early works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-582) and index.
- Language (note)
- Facing page translation with Old English on the versos and English on the rectos.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-910
- ISBN
- 9780674261150
- 0674261151
- LCCN
- 2021010893
- OCLC
- 1240772598
- Author
- Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604, author.
- Title
- The Old English pastoral care / edited and translated by R. D. Fulk.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Dumbarton Oaks medieval library; DOML 72Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 72.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-582) and index.
- Language
- Facing page translation with Old English on the versos and English on the rectos.
- Added Author
- Container of (expression) Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604. Regula pastoralis. English (Old English)Container of (expression) Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604. Regula pastoralis. English.Fulk, R. D. (Robert Dennis), editor, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-910