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The Book of Pontiffs
Raymond (Ed) Davis
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Description for The Book of Pontiffs
Paperback.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846314766
SKU
V9781846314766
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Ref
99-4
About Raymond (Ed) Davis
Raymond Davis read Greats at University College, Oxford, where he subsequently took a BPhil degree in the Later Roman empire and wrote his Doctoral thesis on donations to churches during the fourth and fifth centuries recorded in the Liber Pontificalis. He is now Honorary Senior Research Fellow of Queen’s University, Belfast, and having taken early retirement, he lives and works ... Read more
Reviews for The Book of Pontiffs
… a valuable updated translation of a significant document of early papalhistory.
The Catholic Historical Review
… makes available to a wider readership a central text for the history of Christian Rome … [Davis’s] book is a job well and succinctly done.
The Classical Review
The Catholic Historical Review
… makes available to a wider readership a central text for the history of Christian Rome … [Davis’s] book is a job well and succinctly done.
The Classical Review