Description
Book SynopsisIn The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes the translator and commentator continues from the year AD 817, reached in his The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes (Liverpool, 1992), and deals with the remaining ten biographies of the Liber pontificalis down to AD 886, when compilation ceased.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Manuscripts of the Liber Pontifical is for the lives from A.D. 817 onwards
- Texts and commentaries
- Abbreviations
- The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes
- 100 Paschal (817-824): introduction
- translation
- 10 1 Eugene 11 (824-827): introduction
- translation
- 102 Valentine (827): introduction
- translation
- 103 Gregory IV (828-844): introduction
- translation
- 104 Sergius 11 (844-847): introduction
- translation
- 105 Leo IV (847-855): introduction
- chronology and summary
- translation
- 106 Benedict III (855-858): introduction
- translation
- 107 Nicholas (858-867): introduction
- chronology of life
- translation
- 108 Hadrian 11 (867-872): introduction
- translation
- Addendum: Life 108 in MS Parisinus 2400 (there are no lives numbered 109-111)
- 112 Stephen V (885-891): introduction
- translation
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index of Persons and Places
- Map of Rome in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries at end of volume
