Incipit liber primus[-quartus] Elementorum litterarum

This chapter juxtaposes the theory and the practice of philology in the late nineteenth-century race to produce a modern critical edition of the Liber pontificalis. The resulting w...

The Liber Pontificalis’s account of the four-day Synod of Rome in April 769 convened by Pope Stephen III is a remarkable scene of histrionic recrimination and the condemnation of S...

The Roman Martyrs contains translations (with individual introductions and commentaries) of the passiones of the following Roman martyrs (listed in approximate chronological order)...