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The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes - (Liber Pontificalis) (Paperback) Loot Price: R781
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The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes - (Liber Pontificalis) (Paperback): Raymond Davis

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

Raymond Davis; Commentary by Raymond Davis

Series: Translated Texts for Historians, 20

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Continuing from the year 817, reached in his The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes, Raymond Davis deals with the remaining ten biographies of the Liber Pontificalis down to 886, when compilation ceased. The 9th-century biographies, as a semi-official papal chronicle, are one of the most important sources for Italian history. Major themes preoccupying the popes of this period and their contemporary biographers were relations with the Carolingian and Byzantine Empires. In respect of the former, the popes were determined to maintain freedom of action while the Western emperors were concerned to exercise some influence in Rome. In the case of the Eastern Empire, the popes wished to maintain their independence, established in the previous century, yet to assert primacy over the Byzantine Church; hence their concern both to have their right to decide between claimants to the See of Constantinople acknowledged and to assert jurisdiction in territory disputed between East and West. Rome itself was under threat, and the Saracen invasion of 846 forms a high-point of the narrative.

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Imprint: Liverpool University Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Translated Texts for Historians, 20
Release date: February 1995
Translators: Raymond Davis
Commentary by: Raymond Davis
Dimensions: 210 x 147 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 978-0-85323-479-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400 > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Early Church
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Early Church
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church > General
Books > Christianity > Early Church
Books > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
LSN: 0-85323-479-5
Barcode: 9780853234791

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