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