Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
|
See also:LIBER PONTIFICALIS, or GESTA PONTIFICUM ROMANORUM (i.e. See also:book of the popes)
, consists of the lives of the bishops of See also:Rome from the See also:time of St See also:Peter to the See also:death of See also:Nicholas I. in 867
.
A supplement continues the See also:series of lives almost to the See also:close of the 9th See also:century, and several other continuations were written later
.
During the 16th century there was some discussion about the authorship of the See also:Liber, and for some time it was thought to be the See also:work of an See also:Italian See also: In the Nidi country the women are generally taller than the men . No traces of a See also:Pygmy See also:race have as yet been discovered, nor any negroes of See also:low See also:physiognomy . Some of the See also:Krumen are coarse and ugly, and this is the See also:case with the See also:Mende See also:people; but as a See also:rule the indigenes of Liberia are handsome, well-proportioned negroes, and some of the Mandingos have an almost See also:European See also:cast of feature . to See also:deal mainly with See also:philology, throws a wonderful See also:light on the the See also:present See also:department of See also:Lambayeque . The Western See also:Cordillera relationships and See also:history of the native tribes of Liberia . although large areas appear to be uninhabited forest, other parts are most densely populated, owing to the wonderful fertility of the See also:soil . The native tribes belong more or less to the following divisions, commencing on the See also:west, and proceeding eastwards: (I) Vai, Gbandi, Kpwesi, Mende, Buzi and See also:Mandingo (the Vai, Mende and Mandingo are Mahommedans) ; all these tribes speak See also:languages derived from a See also:common stock . (2) In the densest forest region between the Alamo and the St See also:Paul's See also:river is the powerful Gora tribe of unknown linguistic See also:affinities . (3) In the coast region between the St Paul's river and the Cavalla (and beyond) are the different tribes of Kru stock and See also:language See also:family—De, Basa, Gibi, Kru, Grebo, Putu, Sikora, &c . &c . The actual Kru tribe inhabits the coast between the river Cestos on the west and See also:Grand Sesters on the See also:east . It is known all over the See also:Atlantic coasts of See also:Africa, as it furnishes such a large was consecrated according to the Catalogus Liberianus on the 22nd of May .
His first recorded See also:act was, after a See also:synod had been held at Rome, to write to See also:Constantius, then in quarters at See also:Arles (353-354), asking that a See also:council might be called at See also:Aquileia with reference to the affairs of See also:Athanasius; but his messenger Vincentius of See also:Capua was compelled by the See also:emperor at a conciliabulum held in Arles to subscribe against his will a condemnation of the orthodox See also:patriarch of See also:Alexandria
.
In 355 Liberius was one of the few who, along with See also:Eusebius of See also:Vercelli, See also:Dionysius of See also:Milan and See also:Lucifer of Cagliari, refused to sign the condemnation of Athanasius, which had anew been imposed at Milan by imperial command upon all the Western bishops; the consequence was his relegation to Beroea in See also:Thrace, See also:Felix II
.
(antipope) being consecrated his successor by three " catascopi baud episcopi," as Athanasius called them
.
At the end of an See also:exile of more than two years he yielded so far as to subscribe a See also:formula giving up the " homoousios," to abandon Athanasius, and to accept the communion of his adversaries—a serious See also:mistake, with which he has justly been reproached
.
This sub-See also:mission led the emperor to recall him from exile; but, as the See also:Roman see was officially occupied by Felix, a See also:year passed before Liberius was sent to Rome
.
It was the emperor's intention that Liberius should govern the See also: It assumes that the bishops of Rome exercised authority over the See also:Christian Church from its earliest days . The Liber, which was used by See also:Bede for his Hisloria Ecclesiastica, was first printed at See also:Mainz in 1602 . Among other See also:editions is the one edited by T . Mommsen for the Monumenta Germaniae historica . Gesta Romanorum pontificum, See also:Band i., but the best is the one by L . Duchesne, Le Liber pontificalis: texte, introduction, commentaire (See also:Paris, 1884-1892) . See also the same writer's Etude sur le Liber pontificalis (Paris, 1877); and the See also:article by A . Brackmann in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopadie, Band xi . (See also:Leipzig, 1902) . |
|
|
[back] LIBER DIURNUS ROMANORUM PONTIFLCUM |
[next] LIBERAL PARTY |
There are no comments yet for this article.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.