The Dialogues (Latin : Dialogi) of Gregory the Great is a collection of four books of miracles, signs, wonders, and healings done by the holy men of sixth-century Italy.
The Dialogues (Latin : Dialogi) of Gregory the Great is a collection of four books of miracles, signs, wonders, and healings done by the holy men of sixth-century Italy.
Writing in Latin in a time of plague and war, Gregory structured his work as a conversation between himself and Peter, a deacon. [1] His focus is on miraculous events in the lives of monastics.
The second book is devoted to a life of Saint Benedict. [2]
The Dialogues were the most popular of Gregory's works during the Middle Ages, and in modern times have received more scholarly attention than the rest of his works combined. [3] From this, the author himself is sometimes known as Gregory the Dialogist. [4]
Pope Zachary (r. 741–752) translated the Dialogues into Greek. [5]
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