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xii Contents and List of Citations II. Gregory the Great and his Times PAGE 27. Milman's appreciation of Gregory the Great .... 73 History of Latin Christianity, Book III, Chap. 7 28. Conditions depicted in Gregory's letters 74 (a) Ad Leandrum episcopum Hispalensem (Ep. Lib. i., 43) ; Migne, LXXVII, cols. 496 sq. (b) Homiliae in Evan- gelia, Lib. i, Homilia i ; Migne, LXXVI, col. 1078. 29. How a monk dared to have gold in his possession . . 76 GREGORIUS MAGNUS, Dialogorum libri IV, de vita et miraculis patrum Italicorum, Lib. iv, c. 55: Migne, LXXVII, cols. 420 sq. 30. Extracts from Gregory the Great's Moralia 77 Moralium libri sive expositio in librum B. Job. (a) " Epis- tola Missoria," cc. 4 sq. : Migne, LXXV, cols. 514 sqq. (b) Lib. i, c. 16 : Migne, LXXV, cols. 537 sq.; translated (very freely) in Library of the Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, 3 vols., Oxford, 1844 sq. 31. Extracts from Gregory's Pastoral Charge 80 Regulae pastor alls liber, Pars ii, cc. 8 sq., and Pars iii, "Prologue": Migne, LXXVII. Good translation by Rev. H. R. Bramley, with Latin original on opposite pages, Oxford and London, 1874. CHAPTER V THE MONKS AND THE CON- VERSION OF THE GERMANS I. The Monastic Attitude of Mind 32. St. Jerome's plea for a life of solitude 86 Ad Heliodorum monachum, cc. z sq. (Ep. 14) : Migne, XXII, cols. 548 sq. 33. Ideals of monasticism described by a Spanish monk . 87 Saint Jean de la Croix, Vie et (Euvres, 1893, H> 94> cited by William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, 304 sq. 34. A modern psychologist's analysis of asceticism ... 88 JAMES, The Varieties of Religioits Experience, 298 sq. and 296^. II. The Devil and his Wicked Angels 35. The Pagan gods, devils in disguise 90 GREGORY THE GREAT'S Dialogues (as above, No. 29), Lib. iii, c. 7 : Migne, LXXVII, cols. 229 sqq. 36. St. Gall and the demons 90 WETTINUS, Vita Galli confessoris, cc. 7 sq. : Mon. Ger. Hist., SS. rer. Mer. IV. 37. Martin, a hermit, withstands the terrors of the devil . 92 GREGORY THE GREAT'S Dialogties (as above, No. 29), Lib. iii, c. 16: Migne, LXXVII, col. 257