The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes AD 715-817

Raymond Davis read Greats at University College, Oxford, where he subsequently took a BPhil degree in the Later Roman empire and wrote his Doctoral thesis on donations to churches during the fourth and fifth centuries recorded in the Liber Pontificalis. He is now Honorary Senior Research Fellow of Queen’s University, Belfast, and having taken early retirement, he lives and works in Oxford, continuing to specialise in the Later empire and to delve ever deeper into his favourite text.

• Preface IntroductionThe Manuscripts of the Liber Pontifical is for the Lives from AD 715 onwardsTexts and CommentariesAbbreviationsThe Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes9l Gregory 11 (715-731):introductiontranslation92 Gregory III (731-741):introductiontranslation93 Zacharias (741-752):introductionDomuscultaetranslation94 Stephen 11 (752-757):introductiontranslation95 Paul (757-767):introductiontranslation96 Stephen III (768-772):introductiontranslation97 Hadrian I (772-795):introductiontranslation98 Leo III (795-816):introductionThe Chronology of the Life of Leo IIIThe Catalogue of Donations in 807Omissions from the Catalogue of 807translation99 Stephen IV (816-817):introductiontranslationGlossaryBibliographyIndex of Persons and PlacesMaps of Italy and of Rome

Davis’s Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes is more than just a translation; it is an invaluable contribution to the study of the early middle ages.