Research Catalog

Title

The book of pontiffs (Liber pontificalis) : the ancient biographies of the first ninety Roman bishops to AD 715 / translated with an introduction by Raymond Davis.

Publication

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Davis, Raymond.

Description

lxiii, 147 p. : maps; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Translated texts for historians ; v. 6

Uniform Title

• Liber Pontificalis. English.
• Translated texts for historians v. 6.

Subjects

• Early works
• Biographies
• 30-699
• Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
• Church history > 7th century
• Popes > Biography > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Early works

Note

• Previous ed.: 1989.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. li-lxiii) and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Latin.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prefatory verses -- Prologue -- Apollinaris -- Aderitus -- Eleucadius -- Marcian -- Calocerus -- Proculus -- Probus I -- Florentius -- Liberius III -- Ursus -- Peter I -- Neon -- Exuperantius -- John I -- Peter II -- Aurelian -- Ecclesius -- Ursicinus -- Victor -- Maximian -- Agnellus -- Peter III the elder -- John II the Roman -- Marinian -- John III -- John IV -- Bonus -- Maurus -- Reparatus -- Theodore -- Damian -- Felix -- John V -- Sergius -- Leo -- John VI -- Gratiosus -- Martin -- George -- Table of the bishops of Ravenna -- Glossary of artistic and architectural terminology.

ISBN

• 0853235457 (pbk)
• 9780853235453 (pbk)

OCLC

• 776905709
• SCSB-11352770

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library