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Constantine's donation to the 'bishop and pope of the city of Rome'
- Abstract:
- The salutation urbis Romae episcopo et pape in the forged Donation of Constantine is generally supposed to mean 'to the bishop of the city of Rome and Pope', not 'to the bishop and pope of the city of Rome', on the grounds that a Western writer of the eighth century would not have added any qualifier to the term 'Pope'. This claim is disproved by chapter 14 of the Donation, while other documents from the eighth century reserve the locution urbis Romae papa for distinguished pontiffs, especially when engaged in some extension of their prerogative. The closest parallel to urbis Romae episcopo et pape occurs in [Nennius], Historia Brittonum 50, with a change in syntactic order that entails the translation 'bishop and pope of Rome'.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Journal of Theological Studies More from this journal
- Volume:
- 56
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 115-121
- Publication date:
- 2005-04-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1477-4607
- ISSN:
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0022-5185
- Language:
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English
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ora:3755
- Deposit date:
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2010-05-11
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- Copyright holder:
- Edwards, M
- Copyright date:
- 2005
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the definitive version of the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Edwards, M. J. (2005). 'Constantine's donation to the 'bishop and pope of the city of Rome', Journal of Theological Studies, NS, 56(1), 115-121. [Available at http://jts.oxfordjournals.org/].
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