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Summary
A comprehensive, rollicking, and timely history of the papacy. Full description
Table of 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.