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The invention of Peter : apostolic discourse and papal authority in late antiquity /

By emphasizing the ways the Bishops of Rome first leveraged the cult of St. Peter to their advantage, George E. Demacopoulos constructs an alternate account of papal history that challenges the dominant narrative of an inevitable and unbroken rise in papal power from late antiquity through the Middl...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Demacopoulos, George E.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2013.
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Divinations.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Petrine legends, external recognition, and the cult of Peter in Rome
  • The many faces of Leo's Peter
  • Gelasius' domestic problems and international posture
  • The Petrine discourse in Theoderic's Italy and Justinian's empire
  • Restraint and desperation in Gregory the Great's Petrine appeal
  • The Life of St. Gregory of Agrigentum as a seventh-century Petrine critique of the papacy
  • The invention of Peter
  • Appendix I. Pope Gelasius to Augustus Anastasius
  • Appendix II. Tract VI.