Abstract
ABSTRACT Werferth's translation of Gregory's Dialogues contains portrayals of the emotions of numerous holy people. The relationship of emotions to agency is of particular interest. Emotions that cannot be controlled or that express vulnerability underscore that saints' power is not their own but comes from God. Yet saintly emotions can also exhibit a synergy with divine wrath or grace. Moreover, the holy life involves a struggle to control the mind which is also a struggle against the devil. It is open to Christians to imitate the saints in this struggle by embracing emotional turmoil as a means of self-affliction through compunction. The Dialogues resemble other ninth-century Mercian texts in their concern with saintly power, but their interest in emotion and mind is taken up in later texts of the traditional Alfredian canon, such as the Boethius.
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