“Hegemony” and “Organic Intellectual” in the Early Middle Ages: Gregory I and the (re)elaboration of the vocable-concept of rector

Abstract

This article intends to analyze Gregory I (540-604) as an organic intellectual of the papacy against the Germanic monarchies, that is to say: to outline the strategies of the bishop of Rome to establish his position as a hegemonic faction against the German enlarged states. In this sense, we believe that the letters that the bishop of Rome maintained with those kingdoms, as well as the Regula Pastoralis, the Dialogi and the Moralia in Iob, can be taken, in a broad sense, as indicative of his political thought and, more specifically, as a reference of his ideas about the relations between the Church and the Segmental States, in the sense of constructing a project of papal hegemony.

Keywords:
Papacy; Hegemony; Early Middle Ages