The Book of Pontiffs
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The "Book of Pontiffs" - the Liber Pontificalis of the Roman Church - is indispensable to students of late antiquity and the early middle ages. This book provides an english version of the first ninety papal biographies, from St Peter down to AD 715.
No complete translation of the Latin text of the Book of Pontiffsâ the Liber Pontificalis of the Roman Churchâ exists in any language, though the work is indispensable to students of late antiquity and the early middle ages;

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The "Book of Pontiffs" - the Liber Pontificalis of the Roman Church - is indispensable to students of late antiquity and the early middle ages. This book provides an english version of the first ninety papal biographies, from St Peter down to AD 715.
No complete translation of the Latin text of the Book of Pontiffsâ the Liber Pontificalis of the Roman Churchâ exists in any language, though the work is indispensable to students of late antiquity and the early middle ages;
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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.