The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes

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.

• PrefaceIntroductionThe Manuscripts of the Liber Pontifical is for the lives from A.D. 817 onwardsTexts and commentariesAbbreviationsThe Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes100 Paschal (817-824): introductiontranslation10 1 Eugene 11 (824-827): introductiontranslation102 Valentine (827): introductiontranslation103 Gregory IV (828-844): introductiontranslation104 Sergius 11 (844-847): introductiontranslation105 Leo IV (847-855): introductionchronology and summarytranslation106 Benedict III (855-858): introductiontranslation107 Nicholas (858-867): introductionchronology of lifetranslation108 Hadrian 11 (867-872): introductiontranslationAddendum: Life 108 in MS Parisinus 2400 (there are no lives numbered 109-111)112 Stephen V (885-891): introductiontranslationGlossaryBibliographyIndex of Persons and PlacesMap of Rome in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries at end of volume