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The Church Fathers · 590–604
The Register of Letters
Gregory the Great · c. 540–604
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What it is
Over eight hundred surviving letters administering the estates of the Roman church, negotiating with Lombards, and instructing the mission he sent to England.
Why it lasted
The best documented pontificate of the early Middle Ages, including the famous instruction to convert pagan temples rather than destroy them.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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