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The Book of Pontiffs: Liber Pontificalis

The Book of Pontiffs: Liber Pontificalis

Davis, Raymond
Davis, Raymond

Paperback

Series: Translated Texts for Historians, Book 6

Biographies GeneralAncient RomeGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1846314763
ISBN13: 9781846314766
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Dec 1 2009
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

No complete translation of the Latin text of the Book of Pontiffs--the Liber Pontificalis of the Roman Church--exists in any language, though the work is indispensable to students of late antiquity and the early middle ages; this book provides an english version of the first ninety papal biographies, from St Peter down to AD 715. These lives were first compiled in the sixth century and then regularly brought up to date. In them the reader will find the curious mixture of fact and legend which had come by the Ostrogothic period to be accepted as history by the Church in Rome, and also the subsequent records maintained through to the early eighth century while Rome was under Byzantine sovereignty. In no sense was the Liber Pontificalis an 'official' chronicle of these centuries, and there emerge throughout the interests and prejudices of compilers who belonged, it seems, to the lower levels of the papal administration.

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