Primary sources containing gesta episcoporum or “deeds of bishops”
William of Malmesbury. De gestis pontificum Anglorum. Edited by N.E.S.A. Hamilton. Longman, 1870.
William of Malmesbury. The Deeds of the Bishops of England (Gesta Pontificum Anglorum). Translated by David Preest. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 2002.
Flodoard of Reims. Historia Remensis Ecclesiae. Edited by George Colvener. Patrologia Latina 135, edited by J.P. Migne. Brepols, 1956.
Agnellus. Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis. Edited and with an introduction by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2006.
Agnellus. The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis. 1st ed. Medieval texts in translation. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2004.
This gesta has it all: sermons, miracles, piety, riots, murders, political intrigue, city pride, personal vendetta, and so on. You name it, it’s probably here. A good place to start as gesta go.
Edited and translated by Deborah Deliyannis, my advisor at Indiana University. Agnellus’ Latin is notoriously eclectic, but the broad brush with which he paints Ravenna’s history, art and architecture is worth it.