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The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity
George E. Demacopoulos
In this book Demacopoulos provides not simply another history of the papacy in late antiquity, but "a study of how the literary and ritualistic embellishment of a link between the historic Peter and the papal see of subsequent centuries functioned within a series of existence and interconnected late ancient discourses of authority and exclusion" (1-2). John of Constantinople's claim to the term "Ecumenical Patriarch" was a direct challenge to Rome's authority, and Gregory employs Petrine language in full vigor in his letter to the emperor Maurice. A Postscript on the Life of St. Gregory of Agrigentum shows that even in the seventh century, papal influence was weak enough in Rome that a text could be produced that explicitly criticized a previous bishop (Gregory I).
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