Saints & sinners, a history of the popes, Eamon Duffy
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Saints & sinners, a history of the popes, Eamon Duffy
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-455) and index
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non fiction
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Saints & sinners
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bibliography
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62796161
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Eamon Duffy
Sub title
a history of the popes
Summary
Traces the history of the papacy from its origins nearly two thousand years ago to the start of the twenty-first century, examining the influence each Pope has had on the Catholic religion and the changes the Church has undergone in that time
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'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
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