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Absolute monarchs : a history of the papacy / John Julius Norwich.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks BX 955.3 .N67 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norwich, John Julius, 1929-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Papacy--History.
- Papacy.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 512 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- 1st U.S. edition.
- Other Title:
- History of the papacy
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, ©2011.
- Summary:
- A comprehensive, rollicking, and timely history of the papacy.
- Contents:
- St. Peter
- Defenders of the city (c. 100-536)
- Vigilius (537-555)
- Gregory the Great (590-604)
- Leo III and Charlemagne (795-861)
- Pope Joan (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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781400067152
- 1400067154
- 9780812978841
- 0812978846
- OCLC:
- 659413211
- Publisher Number:
- 9781400067152
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