Article
French
ID: <
10.4000/mefrm.1830>
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DOI: <
10.4000/mefrm.1830>
Abstract
The Liber pontificalis, a collection of biographies of roman bishops, is one of the main sources for the reconstruction of the history of the Christian community in Rome in late antiquity and the early middle ages. Based on the editions of Louis Duchesne and Theodor Mommsen as well as on more recent research regarding the Documenta symmachiana/laurentiana, the actual contribution presents at first some general reflections on the Liber pontificalis, especially on the date and the reasons for the redaction of its first complete version. After this, by analyzing passages in the text concerning Agnes, it will be shown that Coemiterium Novellae is a fictitious toponym. Moreover, a new hypothesis will be formulated concerning the legendary presence, attested in the 6th century, of the bishops Liberius and Bonifatius in the cemetery of Agnes (near Via Nomentana).