Book contents
- Rome and the Invention of the Papacy
- The James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and Culture
- Rome and the Invention of the Papacy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Liber pontificalis
- 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
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index
1 - The Liber pontificalis
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 June 2020
- Rome and the Invention of the Papacy
- The James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and Culture
- Rome and the Invention of the Papacy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Liber pontificalis
- 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
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index
Summary
The title of this book, Rome and the Invention of the Papacy, uses the word ‘invention’ in the original Latin sense of inventio (discovery), as well as the more recent one of an original creation with a function. I intend it to be a more evocative, or even provocative, word than ‘formation’ or ‘development’. Indeed, I shall not be offering a straightforward history of the early medieval papacy in this book. Instead, my theme is the power of a text, with an extended case study of a particular text that charts the history of the early medieval papacy, namely, the Liber pontificalis or ‘book of the pontiffs’.
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- Rome and the Invention of the PapacyThe <I>Liber Pontificalis</I>, pp. 1 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020