The Letters of Gelasius I (492-496): Pastor and Micro-Manager of the Church of Rome [Latin]

by Pauline Allen, Bronwen Neil, Assistant Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies and Senior Lecturer in Ecclesiastical L

While not completely neglected as a late-antique epistolographer, Gelasius has mainly been considered as a theologian prominent in the Acacian schism and as a forerunner of the mediaeval papacy. This imbalance will be redressed by considering his letters on various problems of his time, such as displaced persons, persecution, ransoming captives, papal property management, social and clerical abuses involving servants, orphans, slaves and slave-owners,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 2503552994
• ISBN13: 9782503552996
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"