Title: Pope Gregory's letter-bearers
Description: "With the Lombards invading Italy, and Slavs invading Illyria, and very active slave-dealers at work, the number of men and women who reached Rome and carried a papal letter, to sort out a legal or personal problem at home, is quite surprsing, considering the slowness and the very real dangers of often long journeys in boats or on horseback. ... [T]hey came from all over the civilized world, many briefly appearing on the stage, their mission quite often not reported later on."--Cover, p. [4].
Subjects: Correspondence, Letter carriers, History, Popes, Church history
People: Gregory I Pope (approximately 540-604)
Time periods: to 1500, Middle Ages, 600-1500