1963/04/01 by R. A. Markus · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Medieval Literature and History #Historical and Religious Studies of Rome #Byzantine Studies and History
paper · doi:10.1017/s0022046900064356
openalex publication_date 1963/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/08
Professor 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.