The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes: (Liber Pontificalis)

by Liverpool University Press

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780853234791
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1996
Series:	Translated Texts for Historians LUP , #20
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.74(d)

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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The Manuscripts of the Liber Pontifical is for the lives from A.D. 817 onwards
Texts and commentaries
Abbreviations
The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes
100 Paschal (817-824): introduction translation
10 1 Eugene 11 (824-827): introduction translation
102 Valentine (827): introduction translation
103 Gregory IV (828-844): introduction translation
104 Sergius 11 (844-847): introduction translation
105 Leo IV (847-855): introduction chronology and summary translation
106 Benedict III (855-858): introduction translation

107 Nicholas (858-867): introduction chronology of life translation
108 Hadrian 11 (867-872): introduction translation

Addendum: Life 108 in MS Parisinus 2400 (there are no lives numbered 109-111)

112 Stephen V (885-891): introduction translation

Glossary
Bibliography
Index of Persons and Places
Map of Rome in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries at end of volume

Editorial Reviews

Completes the translation of Liber Pontificalis begun in 1989 with The Book of the Pontiffs and continued in 1992 with The Lives of the Eighth-century Popes. The contemporary semi- official papal chronicle provides much information on the history of Italy, especially in regard to such papal concerns as relations with the Carolingian and Byzantine empires, the Saracen invasion of 846, and the building and furnishing of churches. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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