Title Absolute monarchs : a history of the papacy / John Julius Norwich.

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Old Saybrook, CT : Tantor Media ; Prince Frederick, MD : Distributed by Recorded Books, ℗2011.

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Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department	CD BOOK 262.13 NORWICH	Check Shelf

Edition	Unabridged.
Description	15 audio discs (19 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Note	"Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom as The popes : a history, by Charro & Windus ... in 2011"--Title page verso.
	Compact disc.
	Title from container.
Performer	Narrated by Michael Page.
Note	In container (17 cm.).
Summary	A comprehensive history of the papacy describes the defining relevance of papal authority to the Church, chronicling the unexpectedly violent and colorful historical events that have indelibly shaped the Pope's authority and station.
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.
Subject	Papacy -- History.
	Papacy. (OCoLC)fst01052284
Genre/Form	Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Audiobooks.
Added Author	Page, Michael (Michael J.) Narrator.
	Tantor Media.
	Recorded Books, LLC.
ISBN	9781452604220
	1452604223
Music No.	DD1288 Recorded Books

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