The lives of the eighth-century popes (Liber pontificalis) : the ancient biographies of nine popes from AD 715 to AD 817 / translated with an introduction and commentary by Raymond Davis.

Main entry:

Liber Pontificalis. Selections. English.

Title & Author:

The lives of the eighth-century popes (Liber pontificalis) : the ancient biographies of nine popes from AD 715 to AD 817 / translated with an introduction and commentary by Raymond Davis.

Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1992.

Description:

xx, 260, [6] pages : maps ; 21 cm

Series:

Translated texts for historians ; v. 13

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index.
Gregory II (715-731) -- Gregory III (731-741) -- Zacharias (741-752) -- Stephen II (752-757) -- Paul (757-768) -- Stephen III (768-772) -- Hadrian I (772-797) -- Leo III (797-816) -- Stephen IV (816-817).
Translated from the Latin.

Summary:

"In the Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes the translator and commentator continues from the year A.D. 715, where his Book of the Pontiffs (revised edition, Liverpool, 2000) stopped, and deals with the next nine biographies from the Liber Pontificalis of the Roman Church down to A.D. 817. This was the period which saw much of Italy shake off what was left of Byzantine control, the development of the temporal sovereignty of the papacy, the collapse of the Lombard kingdom and the involvement of the Franks in Italian affairs - the coronation of Charlemagne as Emperor by Pope Leo III being the best known incident. Sources for this crucial century in European history are relatively plentiful from north of the Alps but far less so from Italy; and it is these biographies from Rome, compiled by contemporary writers as a semiofficial papal chronicle, which provide by far the most detailed account of much of the history from the Italian perspective. Politics apart, the biographies, with their details of donations made to churches in Rome, provide a wealth of information of great value to art historians."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

0853230188 (paperback)
9780853230182 (paperback)

Subject:

Catholic Church History Sources.
Église catholique Histoire Sources.
Catholic Church.
Papacy History To 1309.
Papauté Histoire Jusqu'à 1309.
Papacy.
Pausen.
Popes

Form/genre:

History.
Sources.

Host item:

Translated texts for historians

Added entries:

Davis, Raymond.
Translated texts for historians ; v. 13.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 110064
Call No.: ID BX1070.L532513 REF; ID:94-B451
Status: Available

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