Absolute monarchs : a history of the papacy
Title:
Absolute monarchs : a history of the papacy
Author:
Norwich, John Julius, 1929-2018
Personal Author:
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Random House, [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
xiii, 512 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Summary:
A comprehensive, rollicking, and timely history of the papacy.
Language:
English
Contents:
Saint Peter -- Defenders of the city (c.100-536) -- Vigilius (537-555) -- Gregory the Great (590-861) -- Leo III and Charlemagne (795-861) -- Pope Joan (ca. 855-857) -- Nicholas i and the pornocracy (855-964) -- Schism (964-1054) -- Gregory VII and the Normans -- Innocent and Anacletus -- The English pope -- Alexander III and Frederick Barbarossa -- Innocent III -- The end of the Hohenstaufen -- Avignon -- Laetentur Coeli! -- The Renaissance -- The monsters -- The Medici pair -- -- The Counter-Reformation -- Baroque Rome -- The Age of Reason -- The Jesuits and the revolution -- Progress and reaction -- Pio Nono -- Leo XIII and the First World War -- Pius XI and Pius XII -- Vatican II and after.
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ISBN:
9781400067152
Format :
Book
