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Rome and the Invention of the Papacy - The Liber Pontificalis (Hardcover)
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Rome and the Invention of the Papacy - The Liber Pontificalis (Hardcover)
Series: The James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and Culture
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The remarkable, and permanently influential, papal history known as
the Liber pontificalis shaped perceptions and the memory of Rome,
the popes, and the many-layered past of both city and papacy within
western Europe. Rosamond McKitterick offers a new analysis of this
extraordinary combination of historical reconstruction, deliberate
selection and political use of fiction, to illuminate the history
of the early popes and their relationship with Rome. She examines
the content, context, and transmission of the text, and the complex
relationships between the reality, representation, and reception of
authority that it reflects. The Liber pontificalis presented Rome
as a holy city of Christian saints and martyrs, as the bishops of
Rome established their visible power in buildings, and it
articulated the popes' spiritual and ministerial role, accommodated
within their Roman imperial inheritance. Drawing on wide-ranging
and interdisciplinary international research, Rome and the
Invention of the Papacy offers pioneering insights into the
evolution of this extraordinary source, and its significance for
the history of early medieval Europe.
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