| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 474 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Note |
Previous ed.: 2002. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-455) and index. |
| Contents |
'Upon this rock' c. AD 33-461. From Jerusalem to Rome ; The Bishops of Rome ; The age of Constantine ; The birth of papal Rome. -- Between two empires 461-1000. Under Gothic kings ; The age of Gregory the Great ; The Byzantine captivity of the papacy ; Empires of the West. -- Set above nations 1000-1447. The era of papal reform ; From papal reform to papal monarchy ; The pinnacle of papal power ; Exile and schism. -- Protest and division 1477-1774. The Renaissance popes ; The crisis of Christendom ; The Counter-Reformation ; The popes in an age of absolutism. -- The pope and the people 1774-1903. The church and the revolution ; From recovery to reaction ; Pio Nono: the triumph of ultramontanism ; Ultramontanism with a liberal face: the reign of Leo XIII. -- The oracles of God 1903-2005. The age of intransigence ; The attack on modernism ; The age of the dictators ; The age of Vatican II ; Papa Wojtyla ; The way we live now. -- Appendix A: Chronological list of popes and antipopes. -- Appendix B: Glossary. -- Appendix C: How a new pope is made. |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- History.
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Papacy -- History.
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| Added Title |
Saints and sinners |
| ISBN |
0300115970 paperback |
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9780300115970 paperback |
| Standard No. |
9780300115970 (pbk.) |
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