Absolute monarchs
Subtitle: a history of the papacy
By: John Julius Norwich
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781400067152; 9780679604990
Subjects: Papacy; History
Other titles: History of the papacy
Description: A comprehensive, rollicking, and timely history of the papacy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Saint Peter; title: Defenders of the city (c.100-536); title: Vigilius (537-555); title: Gregory the Great; title: Leo III and Charlemagne (795-861); title: Pope Joan (ca. 855-857); title: Nicholas I and the pornocracy (855-964); title: Schism (964-1054); title: Innocent and Anacletus; title: The English pope; title: Innocent III; title: The end of the Hohenstaufen; title: Avignon; title: Laetentur Coeli!; title: The Renaissance; title: The monsters; title: The Medici pair; title: The Counter-Reformation; title: Baroque Rome; title: The Age of Reason; title: The Jesuits and the revolution.