King Alfred's Books
Book details
- Title
- King Alfred's Books
- Author
- Bishop Werferth
- Publication year listed
- 1920
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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King Alfred's Books
Author: Alfred, King of England, 849-899
Year: 1920
CONTENTS THE DIALOGUES OF GREGORY THE GREAT CHAPTER I The three Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, and the edition - The Benedictine editors and their Introduction - The Greek version - Greek bishops of Rome - Latin titles in Greek - Gibbon on the Dialogues - Gregory and his deacon Peter - Bede on the Dialogues - Date of the Dialogues - Dr. Dudden on the Dialogues - Miraculous stories - Augustine's letter on miracles in England, and Gregory's reply - Lanfranc and St. Aldhelm - The Pope and St. Edward the Confessor - Arabic, Old French, and Old Icelandic versions of the Dialogues - An English version dedicated to Anne of Denmark in 1608 Pages 31-39 CHAPTER II Alfred's version prepared by Bishop Werferth - Alfred's own Preface - Gregory's own Preface, in Werferth's version, in the original Latin, and in Elizabethan English - Commencement of the dialogue between Gregory and Peter - Of the abbat jEquitius and a nun who ate a devil - Of the clerk Constantine who burned water in his lamps - Discussion thereon - Of a certain man named Martirius, who made a cross on a baking cake Pages 40-48 CHAPTER III Of a parish priest, Severus, who went on pruning his vines while a parishioner died, but rescued