Rome and the Invention of the Papacy - The Liber Pontificalis

The first full study of the most remarkable history of the early popes and their relationship with Rome, the Liber pontificalis.

List of contents

1. The Liber pontificalis: text and context; 2. The Liber pontificalis and the city of Rome; 3. Apostolic succession; 4. Establishing visible power; 5. Bishop and pope; 6. Transmission, reception and audiences: the early medieval manuscripts of the Liber pontificalis and their implications; Conclusion: the power of a text

About the author

Rosamond McKitterick is Professor Emerita of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, and Chair of the Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters of the British School at Rome. She was awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken International Prize in History in 2010. Her previous publications include History and Memory in the Carolingian World (2004), Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages (2006), Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity (2008), and two co-edited volumes on medieval Rome, Rome Across Time and Space: Cultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas (2011), and Old Saint Peter's, Rome (2013).

Summary

The remarkable papal history known as the Liber pontificalis permanently 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 pioneering insights into the evolution of this extraordinary source, and its significance.

Product details

• Authors: Rosamond McKitterick, Rosamond (University of Cambridge) Mckitterick, McKitterick Rosamond
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781108836821
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83682-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: James Lydon Lectures in Mediev; The James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, History - General History, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, Medieval History, Church history, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, European history: medieval period, middle ages