Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• The Manuscripts of the Liber Pontifical is for the lives from A.D. 817 onwards
• Texts and commentaries
• Abbreviations
• The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes
• 100 Paschal (817-824): introduction
• translation
• 10 1 Eugene 11 (824-827): introduction
• translation
• 102 Valentine (827): introduction
• translation
• 103 Gregory IV (828-844): introduction
• translation
• 104 Sergius 11 (844-847): introduction
• translation
• 105 Leo IV (847-855): introduction
• chronology and summary
• translation
• 106 Benedict III (855-858): introduction
• translation
• 107 Nicholas (858-867): introduction
• chronology of life
• translation
• 108 Hadrian 11 (867-872): introduction
• translation
• Addendum: Life 108 in MS Parisinus 2400 (there are no lives numbered 109-111)
• 112 Stephen V (885-891): introduction
• translation
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index of Persons and Places
• Map of Rome in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries at end of volume

About the Author

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.