The Book of Pontiffs: Liber Pontificalis by Raymond Davis (English) Paperback Bo

Description: The Book of Pontiffs by Raymond Davis No complete translation of the Latin text of the Book of Pontiffs—the Liber Pontificalis of the Roman Church—exists in any language, though the work is indispensable to students of late antiquity and the early middle ages; FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description No complete translation of the Latin text of the Book of Pontiffs—the Liber Pontificalis of the Roman Church—exists in any language, though the work is indispensable to students of late antiquity and the early middle ages; this book provides an english version of the first ninety papal biographies, from St Peter down to AD 715. These lives were first compiled in the sixth century and then regularly brought up to date. In them 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. In no sense was the Liber Pontificalis an official chronicle of these centuries, and there emerge throughout the interests and prejudices of compilers who belonged, it seems, to the lower levels of the papal administration.For this new edition the translation has been carefully emended, and in places the underlying text has been reconsidered. Vignoli section numbers have been added, as in the translators later volumes of the Liber Pontificalis (ttH 13 and 20). The translation has been reset to distinguish more clearly the status and value of additions to the standard Liber Pontificalis text by the use of different type. there have been revisions and extensions to both the glossary and the bibliography, and material has been added to Appendix 3. Author Biography 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 Queens 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 PrefaceIntroductionEarly Papal ChroniclesThe Liber PontificalisThe complier and his continuatorsThe value of the early livesThe tombs of St Peter and the early Roman bishopsThe compilers chronologyOther formulaic materialThe early popes as martyrsThe Symmachan apocryphaThe Liber Pontificalis and the liturgyChurch foundations and endowmentsThe Constantinian church foundationsOther fourth-century church foundationsChurch foundations in the fifth centuryOstrogothic RomeRome in the Byzantine epochComposition and date of the Liber PontificalisTranslating the Liber PontificalisSelect BibliographyTexts and commentariesModern worksGeneralSpecific topicsLegendary and forged materialLiturgy and related mattersTopography and historyChurch foundationsThe Book of PontiffsPeterLinus, Cletus, ClementAneclitus, Evaristus, AlexanderXystus I, Telephorus, HyginusPius, Anicetus, Soter, EleutherVistor, ZephyrinusCallistus, Urban, PontianAnteros, Fabian, CorneliusLucius, Stephen IXystus II, DionysiusFelix I, Eutychian, GaiusMercellinus, MercellusEusebius, MiltiadesSilvesterMark, JuliusLiberiusFelix II, DamasusSiriciusAnastasius I, InnocentiusZosimus, Boniface ICelestineXystus IIILeo IHilarusSimplicius, Felix IIIGelasius p41Anastasius II, SymmachusHormisdasJohn IFelix IVBoniface II, John IIAgapitusSilveriusVigiliusPelagius IJohn IIIBenedict I, Pelagius IIGregory I, Sabinian, Boniface IIIBoniface IV, Deusdedit, Boniface VHonoriusSeverinusJohn IVTheodoreMartinEugene I, VitalianAdeodatusDonusAgathoLeo II p76Benedict IIJohn VCononSergiusJohn VIJohn VIISisinnius, ConstantineAppendix 1: The Librarian CatalougeAppendix 2: The Laurentian FragmentAppendix 3: Extracts from the epitomes of the first edition of the Liber PontificalisGlossary of Technical Terms in the TranslationIndex of Churches MentionedMaps Review ... a valuable updated translation of a significant document of early papalhistory. ... makes available to a wider readership a central text for the history of Christian Rome ... [Daviss] book is a job well and succinctly done. Review Quote ... makes available to a wider readership a central text for the history of Christian Rome ... [Daviss] book is a job well and succinctly done. Details ISBN1846314763 Pages 216 Publisher Liverpool University Press Series Translated Texts for Historians Edition 3rd Translator Raymond Davis ISBN-10 1846314763 ISBN-13 9781846314766 Format Paperback Imprint Liverpool University Press Subtitle Liber Pontificalis Place of Publication Liverpool Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Raymond Davis Illustrations maps DEWEY 282.0922 Short Title BK OF THE PONTIFFS LIBER-REV/E Language English Media Book Series Number 06 Year 2009 Publication Date 2009-12-01 UK Release Date 2009-12-01 AU Release Date 2009-12-01 NZ Release Date 2009-12-01 Edition Description 3rd Revised edition Alternative 9781789623536 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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