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[Boso]; trans. G. M. Ellis; intro. Peter Munz.
Boso’s Life of Alexander III.
Published Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1973.
ISBN 0631149902.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Western Printing Services, Bristol.
Size: 144x221x12mm.
Page count: 122pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is rather scuffed and rubbed, somewhat ragged on its edges and corners, its spine a bit faded; some foxing on the page edges, but by and large the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £15.00
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Weight without packaging: 323g.

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Boso was an Englishman, nephew of Nicholas Breakspear; his Life was part of the Liber Pontificalis and is “the most informative, though not wholly unbiased account we have of the pontificate of Alexander III”. Not a vita as such, rather a history of the schism brought about by the double election of 1159, and co-starring Frederick Barbarossa as the villain of the piece.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: 39pp
Notes: at foot of page in intro, none for main text
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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