Popes: A History

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780701182908
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus
  • Publication date: 3/28/2011
  • Pages: 505
  • Sales rank: 1,380,783
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.80 (d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

List of Maps xi

Introduction xvii

I St Peter (1-100 AD) 1

II Defenders of the City (c. 100-536) 9

III Vigilius (537-55) 25

IV Gregory the Great (590-604) 37

V Leo III and Charlemagne (622-816) 49

VI Pope Joan (?855-7) 60

VII Nicholas I and the Pornocracy (855-964) 68

VIII Schism (964-1054) 82

IX Gregory VII and the Normans (1055-85) 96

X Innocent and Anacletus (1086-1183) 112

XI The English Pope (1154-9) 132

XII Alexander III and Frederick Barbarossa (1159-98) 149

XIII Innocent III (1198-1216) 164

XIV The End of the Hohenstaufen (1216-1303) 174

XV Avignon (1309-67 and 1370-6) 195

XVI Laetentur Coelil (1378-1447) 219

XVII The Renaissance (1447-92) 236

XVIII The Monsters (1492-1513) 254

XIX The Medici Pair (1513-34) 279

XX The Counter-Reformation (1534-1605) 299

XXI Baroque Rome (1605-1700) 317

XXII The Age of Reason (1700-48) 339

XXIII The Jesuits and the Revolution (1750-99) 350

XXIV Progress and Reaction (1799-1846) 369

XXV Pio Nono (1846-78) 382

XXVI Leo XIII and the First World War (1878-1922) 404

XXVII Pius XI and Pius XII (1922-58) 415

XXVIII Vatican II and After (1958-present) 437

Bibliography 453

List of popes and antipopes 459

Index 469

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