Book of the Pontiffs: Liber Pontificalis (Translated Texts for Historians, 6) (Volume 6)

Davis, Raymond

ISBN 10: 0853235457 / ISBN 13: 9780853235453

Published by Liverpool University Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Book of the Pontiffs: Liber Pontificalis (Translated Texts for Historians, 6) (Volume 6)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853235457
• ISBN 13: 9780853235453
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
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Synopsis

This book provides an English version of the first ninety papal biographies in the Liber pontificalis, from St Peter down to 715 AD. In these lives, 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. This new edition has been fully revised.

About the Author

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.