Strutture monastiche, gestione e momenti di vita quotidiana nel Registrum epistularum di Gregorio Magno

The study retrieves in Gregory the Great’s Registrum epistularum the measures taken on the monastic building, on the management by monastic leaders and on the moral decay that more and more marked the strict monastic setting of the sixth century. The aim is to find in Gregory’s action the aspects and the characters of a conscious “monastic policy”, thus overcoming at least in part the disagreement which also has been authoritatively formulated.