Book of the Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis)
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
147 pages
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© 2000
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.
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Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE BOOK OF PONTIFFS
APPENDIX 1: The Liberian Catalogue
APPENDIX 2: The Laurentian Fragment
APPENDIX 3: Extracts from the epitomes of the first
edition of the Liber Pontidicalis
GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS IN THE
TRANSLATION
INDEX OF CHURCHES MENTIONED
MAPS
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