The Liber pontificalis, the serial biography of the popes running from Saint Peter to the end of the ninth century, first compiled in Rome during the ‘Gothic Wars’ in the sixth century and continued at various stages in the next three centuries, offers a distinctive narrative of the history of Rome and of the papacy in the early Middle Ages. This paper argues that the seventh- and early eighth-century sections, too often simply mined for nuggets of information about church buildings, represent the pope in a particular way both in relation to Byzantium in theological and political terms, and as the successor to Saint Peter in Rome. The papal narrative undermines the usual assumptions about the so-called ‘Byzantine Reconquest’ and the Roman perception, if not the reality, of the degree to which ‘Byzantine rule’ was exercised in Italy between the middle of the sixth and first half of the eighth century. Lastly, these ‘continuations’ have important implications for any interpretation of the purpose and construction of the Liber pontificalis, and of its dissemination beyond Rome in the seventh and eighth centuries.

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7 世纪和 8 世纪初的教皇和拜占庭教宗

这教皇自由报，从圣彼得到 9 世纪末的教皇系列传记，在 6 世纪的“哥特式战争”期间首次在罗马编纂，并在接下来的三个世纪的不同阶段继续进行，提供了一个独特的叙述罗马和罗马教皇的历史在中世纪早期。本文认为，7 世纪和 8 世纪初的部分，往往只是简单地挖掘有关教堂建筑的信息，以一种特殊的方式代表教皇，无论是在神学和政治方面与拜占庭的关系，还是作为圣徒的继任者。彼得在罗马。教皇的叙述破坏了关于所谓的“拜占庭重新征服”和罗马观念的通常假设，如果不是现实的话，六世纪中叶至八世纪上半叶在意大利实行“拜占庭统治”的程度。最后，这些“延续”对任何解释目的和结构的意义重大。教皇自由报，以及它在七八世纪罗马以外的传播。