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The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes AD 715-817 (Translated Texts for Historians LUP)

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Description for The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes AD 715-817 (Translated Texts for Historians LUP) Paperback. Deals with the next nine biographies from the Liber Pontificalis of the Roman Church down to AD 817. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 272 pages, maps. BIC Classification: BGX; HRCC2; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
In The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes Raymond Davis continues from the year AD 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 AD 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.

Product Details

Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Translated Texts for Historians
Condition
New
Weight
400g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846311543
SKU
V9781846311543
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99-50

About
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 in Oxford, continuing to specialise in the Later empire and to delve ever deeper into his favourite text.

Reviews for The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes AD 715-817 (Translated Texts for Historians LUP)
Anyone interested in the revolutionary developments of the 715 to 817 period…will welcome Davis’s valuable work.
Catholic Historical Review
Davis’s Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes is more than just a translation; it is an invaluable contribution to the study of the early middle ages.
Ecclesiastical History

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