The consul vanishes? On using and not using Gregory the Great's <i>Register</i> in early medieval England
Benjamin Savill
This article builds upon recent scholarship emphasizing the importance of Gregory Great's Register as a key text Carolingian and post‐Carolingian library, exploring by contrast its peculiarly limited reception in England. It first surveys what little evidence we have for citation English ecclesiastics (post‐c.1000, mostly via Wulfstan); it then examines single pre‐Conquest manuscript usually catalogued letter from Register, showing that this has been reworked an anonymous admonitio to judges (probably bishops). concludes reflecting on implications our understanding later Anglo‐Saxon church – community otherwise well‐invested Gregory's memory.
Early Medieval Europe