Tuesday 4 May 2010

The Burden of Property

Letter 1,9 - to Sub-deacon Peter. October 590.

"(..) people from the estate of Fulloniacum, members of the Holy Church of Rome, want to occupy the lands of the estate of Gerdinna, which shares a boundary with the same aforesaid estate of the Holy church of Rome, and which they have possessed without legal trouble for countless years. And we wish, therefore, that you go to the city of Palermo and discuss the request (..)."

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 127.

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