This series is designed to meet the needs of students of ancient and medieval history and others who wish to broaden their study by reading source material, but whose Latin and Greek is not sufficent to allow them to do so in the original language. This is an English version of the first 90 papal biographies from St Peter down to AD 715. These lives were first compiled in the sixth century and then regularly brought up to date. They contain a mixture of fact and legend which was typical of ecclesiastical history at this time.