The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna (Medieval Texts in Translation) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna (Medieval Texts in Translation) write by Agnellus (of Ravenna, Abbot). This book was released on 2004-05. The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna (Medieval Texts in Translation) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This translation makes this fascinating text accessible for the first time to an English-speaking audience. A substantial introduction to Agnellus and his composition of the text is included along with a full bibliography
The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna
The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna write by Agnellus (of Ravenna, Abbot). This book was released on 2004. The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis)
The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis) write by Raymond Davis. This book was released on 2010. The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No complete translation of the Latin text of the Book of Pontiffs--the Liber Pontificalis of the Roman Church--exists in any language, though the work 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. These lives were first compiled in the sixth century and then regularly brought up to date. In them the reader will find the curious mixture of fact and legend which had come by the Ostrogothic period to be accepted as history by the Church in Rome, and also the subsequent records maintained through to the early eighth century while Rome was under Byzantine sovereignty. In no sense was the Liber Pontificalis an 'official' chronicle of these centuries, and there emerge throughout the interests and prejudices of compilers who belonged, it seems, to the lower levels of the papal administration. For this new edition the translation has been carefully emended, and in places the underlying text has been reconsidered. Vignoli section numbers have been added, as in the translator's later volumes of the Liber Pontificalis (ttH 13 and 20). The translation has been reset to distinguish more clearly the status and value of additions to the standard Liber Pontificalis text by the use of different type. there have been revisions and extensions to both the glossary and the bibliography, and material has been added to Appendix 3.
The Carolingian World
The Carolingian World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Carolingian World write by Marios Costambeys. This book was released on 2011-05-12. The Carolingian World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive and accessible survey of the great Carolingian empire, which dominated western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries.
Liturgy and Society in Early Medieval Rome
Liturgy and Society in Early Medieval Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liturgy and Society in Early Medieval Rome write by John F. Romano. This book was released on 2016-05-06. Liturgy and Society in Early Medieval Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The liturgy, the public worship of the Catholic Church, was a crucial factor in forging the society of early medieval Rome. As the Roman Empire dissolved, a new world emerged as Christian bishops stepped into the power vacuum left by the dismantling of the Empire. Among these potentates, none was more important than the bishop of Rome, the pope. The documents, archaeology, and architecture that issued forth from papal Rome in the seventh and eighth centuries preserve a precious glimpse into novel societal patterns. The underexploited liturgical sources in particular enrich and complicate our historical understanding of this period. They show how liturgy was the ’social glue’ that held together the Christian society of early medieval Rome - and excluded those who did not belong to it. This study places the liturgy center stage, filling a gap in research on early medieval Rome and demonstrating the utility of investigating how the liturgy functioned in medieval Europe. It includes a detailed analysis of the papal Mass, the central act of liturgy and the most obvious example of the close interaction of liturgy, social relations and power. The first extant Mass liturgy, the First Roman Ordo, is also given a new presentation in Latin here with an English translation and commentary. Other grand liturgical events such as penitential processions are also examined, as well as more mundane acts of worship. Far from a pious business with limited influence, the liturgy established an exchange between humans and the divine that oriented Roman society to God and fostered the dominance of the clergy.
