Your post and the link to Helen Gittos's article are valuable contributions to (my) understanding of the 6th amd 7th centuries. The people who practically worshiped Gregory the Great and Augustine as apostles to the English provided their contemporaries and successors a picture of superhuman heroes striding across an empty landscape. Surely life was tough in the post-plague era, but there was more going on than Gregory writing letters of advice. And when Gregory heard about the situation in Kent, he probably had a rich context to fit the news into. Thanks so much!
Your post and the link to Helen Gittos's article are valuable contributions to (my) understanding of the 6th amd 7th centuries. The people who practically worshiped Gregory the Great and Augustine as apostles to the English provided their contemporaries and successors a picture of superhuman heroes striding across an empty landscape. Surely life was tough in the post-plague era, but there was more going on than Gregory writing letters of advice. And when Gregory heard about the situation in Kent, he probably had a rich context to fit the news into. Thanks so much!