The lives of the ninth-century popes (Liber pontificalis) : the ancient biographies of ten popes from A.D. 817-891 / translated with an introduction and commentary by Raymond Davis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Raymond.

Series:

Translated texts for historians ; 20.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Papacy--History--To 1309.

Papacy.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 334 p) : map

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English translation from the Latin.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes the translator and commentator continues from the year AD 817, reached in his The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes (Liverpool, 1992), and deals with the remaining ten biographies of the Liber pontificalis down to AD 886, when compilation ceased. The volume thus completes the translation, begun in The Book of Pontiffs (Liverpool, 1989), the first translation into any modern language apart from continuations written from the late eleventh century onwards. 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. Publisher description

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-324) and index.

Electronic reproduction. 2011.

ISBN:

9781789628371

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.