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- 1 2 Heidecker, Karl Josef (2010). The Divorce of Lothar II: Christian Marriage and Political Power in the Carolingian World . Cornell University Press. p. 41 n.18. ISBN 9780801439292.
- ↑ Howe, John (1997). Church Reform and Social Change in Eleventh-Century Italy: Dominic of Sora and His Patrons. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 25 n.4.
- ↑ Fried, Johannes (2007). Donation of Constantine and Constitutum Constantini: The Misinterpretation of a Fiction and its Original Meaning. Walter de Gruyter. p. 46.
- ↑ Gregorovius, The History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages (Rome: 1905), V, 8.
- ↑ Duckett, Eleanor Shipley (1968). Death and Life in the Tenth Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 138.
- Editions
- Giuseppe Zucchetti, ed. Il Chronicon di Benedetto, monaco di S. Andrea del Soratte e il "Libellus de imperatoria potestate in urbe Roma", Fonti per la storia d'Italia, 55. Rome: 1920.
- Georg Pertz, ed. "De imperatoria potestate in urbe Roma libellus", Mon. Germ. Hist. Scriptores, iii, 719–22.
- Further reading
- Ferdinand Hirsch, "Die Schenkung Kaiser Karls des Kahlen für Papst Johann VIII und der Libellus de imperatoria potestate in urbe Roma", Forschungen sur deutschen Geschichte, 20.
- Marios Costambeys, Power and Patronage in the Early Medieval Italy: Local Society, Italian Politics, and the Abbey of Farfa, c.700–900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.