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Saints & sinners : a history of the popes

Print Book, English, 2006
Yale Nota Bene, New Haven, 2006
History
474 pages, [16] pages de planches : illustrations en couleur ; 20 cm
9780300115970, 0300115970
1004969934
'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
Traitement7
Édition précédente : 2002