The lives of the eighth-century popes (Liber pontificalis) : the ancient biographies of nine popes from AD 715 to AD 817
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The lives of the eighth-century popes (Liber pontificalis) : the ancient biographies of nine popes from AD 715 to AD 817
（Translated texts for historians, v. 13）
Liverpool University Press, 2007
Rev. ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-249) and index
"Second edition" -- on cover
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Description
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 tempo ral 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 inci dent. 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 semi official 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.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction
The Manuscripts of the Liber Pontifical is for the Lives from AD 715 onwards
Texts and Commentaries
Abbreviations
The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes
9l Gregory 11 (715-731):
introduction
translation
92 Gregory III (731-741):
introduction
translation
93 Zacharias (741-752):
introduction
Domuscultae
translation
94 Stephen 11 (752-757):
introduction
translation
95 Paul (757-767):
introduction
translation
96 Stephen III (768-772):
introduction
translation
97 Hadrian I (772-795):
introduction
translation
98 Leo III (795-816):
introduction
The Chronology of the Life of Leo III
The Catalogue of Donations in 807
Omissions from the Catalogue of 807
translation
99 Stephen IV (816-817):
introduction
translation
Glossary
Bibliography
Index of Persons and Places
Maps of Italy and of Rome
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